216 Ocean View Drive, Fresnaye

Private Home

Architect: Robert Silke & Partners

Interior Designer: Robert Silke & Partners

Decorator: Lankham House Interiors

Photographer: Adam Letch

Contractor: Blackland

Completed: December 2019

This sophisticated family home for blue-chip clients presents as both futuristic and established at the same time.

It’s rare to find an enlightened client with a yen for thirties Tel Aviv Bauhaus and the confidence to realise something eccentric, sculptural and out-of-the-box in an aesthetically conservative neighbourhood.

This 600m² family home achieves its luxury through soaring volumes and achieves its privacy by making the most of the established “jungle” for which the site was specifically acquired. By lovingly retaining all existing trees, the house avoids the nouveau riche scorched earth policy which has become de rigeur on Cape Town’s Atlantic Seaboard.

Bold yet understated, this house has no gold on the taps and no fur on the handrails. Because the joy here comes from sculptural form, light & space.