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Thinking about food
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Food Design
This year, the annual food and wine conference at Spier Wine Farm looks at eating insects, sustainable suppers and how music effects your tastebuds.
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15 Oct 15
2014 Most Beautiful Object in South Africa
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Craft
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Product Design
The complete list of finalists for the 2014 Most Beautiful Object in South Africa is revealed. Who will get your vote?
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29 Jan 14
Robert Sayre: Food as a way to foster inter-country discourse
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Food Design
Conflict Kitchen’s cultural director and chef talks about using ethnic food as “bait” to get people to learn about the country where that food is from.
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15 Nov 13
Secret festival
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Food Design
The 2013 Spier Secret Festival was a huge success. Here's an inside look at what the two-day celebration offered visitors.
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13 Nov 13
Market snapshots
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Dave Southwood's latest collection of photographs captures the intricacies of the legendary Milnerton Market.
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18 Nov 10
Art road trip
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The artworks of the various winners of the Spier Contemporary 2010 Exhibition will be touring the country for the next couple of months.
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16 Jun 10
Milestones and goalposts
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In soccer "own goal" refers to a mistake but in a new visual art exhibition, it is the process of realising personal objectives.
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8 Jun 10
Rite-specific art
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Interaction Design
Infecting the City – the third Spier Public Arts Festival – is taking to the streets, squares and public spaces of Cape Town.
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2 Feb 10
New made rubbish
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
Design Indaba Expo 2010: Over the past year Heath Nash has been focusing on using plastic waste in new ways.
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1 Feb 10
Second Spier Contemporary exhibition opens
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Architecture & Interiors
The Spier Contemporary 2010 Exhibition will open its doors to show contemporary South African art for diverse audiences.
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29 Jan 10
Worldly stuff
Profiling
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Architecture & Interiors
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Interaction Design
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Music & Sound Design
Creator of worlds and purveyor of jumble, set designer Angela Nemov speaks to Nadine Botha.
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1 Nov 08
Coming out in shells
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Product Design
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Craft
Avoova have installed a 7m-long ostrich eggshell mosaic that wraps around the Spier Hotel reception desk.
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2 Nov 07
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