Synopsis
Before you’ve had a chance to snoop at the decor, the first
things likely to impress you on entering the immaculately
renovated Observatory home of trendsetting Capetonians
Rupert Smith and Warren Matthee are the soothing trickle of running
water and an aura that’s as tranquil as a mystic retreat. It makes you
stop in your tracks and re-measure your breath, and then you pick
up the sensual notes of essential oils drifting through from the room
Warren uses for his Hawaiian Lomilomi massage practice, Ha Pule.
As to be expected from the owners of the city’s landmark O.live
Chemistry of Living interiors store, a magnet for magpies drawn in
by its original and beautiful window displays, the house is filled with
great stuff, the sort you instantly want to teleport to your own home.
It’s the other way round for them. ‘We’re forever collecting things
for the shop, some of which never actually make it there and which
we’re unable to part with,’ says Warren a tad wistfully.
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