House Tour: Inside a Modern Bishopscourt Family Jewel
There is a unique phenomenon that comes with moving from one bucolic Cape Town suburb to another: you simply swop stunning views, each offering up a unique, panoramic vista of mountains, fynbos, and pockets of the Mother City.
For Nick Gluckman, the owner of Oggie Flooring, the move from Tamboerskloof to Bishopscourt meant the exchange of a view of Table Mountain’s City Bowl to its south side. With that move would come more space to raise his family.
Nick couldn’t see himself living in the City Bowl for another 10 years, having lived there for 16 already. Ready for a change, he decided it was time to move to the suburbs, even if that meant dealing with traffic.
One morning, en route to the Oggie Flooring showroom in Cape Town, Nick made a call to Zeanne Duminy of Zeanne + Goss Design Studio, who was working on a project in a Bishopscourt estate where Oggie Flooring had been specified for 10 units.
One unit was left; Nick went to view it just hours later, and instantly fell in love with it.
Today, this robust and highly functional home is a classic contemporary space featuring large windows, spacious rooms, and classic forms.
Designed in collaboration with KingsHill Developers, the home is part of a development, which brings a set of rules, boundaries, and carefully planned constraints established long before the owner engages.
Designing within these parameters often presents unique challenges, but it can also be immensely rewarding.
‘Family was our primary inspiration for this project. We design for living, not for designers – we design for families, for our clients, and we draw immense inspiration from these relationships,’ says Zeanne.