Woodstock – the essential stop for anyone interested in South African design, writes Paul Makovsky in Metropolis.
Once a lower-middle-class neighborhood of crumbling Victorian cottages just outside Cape Town’s center, Woodstock is emerging as the city’s new creative district.
The revival started when two friends, Cameron Munro from Zimbabwe and Justin Rhodes from New York, started a weekly outdoor food market on the grounds of a derelict biscuit factory.
Next, two of South Africa’s biggest art-world galleries, Goodman Gallery and Stevenson, moved to the area. The more recent opening of the Woodstock Exchange (below), a collection of boutiques, workshops, and cafés all occupied by young entrepreneurs, has brought even more fashion, design, and art to the area. The mural Because the Sun Belongs to You is by the artist Guillaume Alby, who also goes by the name Remed. Bronze Age (above) is a local art foundry specializing in the casting of bronze sculpture.
Woodstock Exchange
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