I’ve recently been invited to be involved in the redesign a space inside one of Cape Town’s prominent landmark hotels. The idea is to convert an old, disused restaurant into an open plan kitchen with a chefs table for VIP sittings and other events. Ever since exploring the Casa Camper Hotel in Berlin a year…
I’ve always been a big fan of the biannual Maison et Objet design events held in Paris and the first one of 2015 has certainly lived up to my expectations. While I wasn’t able to attend this time Wallpaper covered the event and I’ve found quite a few designs that excite me: Hooks where popular…
Property and in particular reinventing spaces has always been a passion. I can still remember my first project; I was in high school and my parents had bought an old 1970’s house. They decided to gut it, skim over all the stipple walls, and redesign the kitchen and bathrooms. It seemed natural for me to…
Nic Tamlin designed this chair for the Bacoa restaurant group in Barcelona, Spain and am delighted with the result. Take a look at this video Bacoa made of the chair design process and finished product:
Coming in 2015 – a collection of vintage warehouses and creative spaces for rent in Woodstock’s Chapel Street Nic Tamlin Interior Design, Cape Town, is working on an exciting new property development soon to blossom on Chapel Street, Woodstock. On offer is a collection of vintage warehouses and creative spaces available to artisans, creatives and…
Nic Tamlin Interior Design Commissioned to Invigorate Student Eatery C3 provides food services for companies with large staff compliments, or institutions like universities, and they were looking for a cafe concept to cater for students in a new study center in Stellenbosch. The design for the eatery needed to be simple and cost effective but…
Love Revenge Coffee Shop This was a great project to work on at the V&A Waterfront, one of Cape Town’s most visited destinations. Love Revenge Cappuccino came with it’s own set of challenges as it had to fit into a smallish space behind an escalator (it’s right opposite the Apple store). We chose to work…