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DESIGNED FOR LIVING

If you’re lucky enough to call a home designed by US architects Adèle Naudé Santos and Tony de Souza Santos your own, you have in no uncertain terms hit a winning six on the real-estate PowerBall. The former husband-and-wife team were the original It architects of the 1960s and 1970s, responsible for some of Cape Town’s – and South Africa’s – most important Modernist works.

One such build is this delightfully airy abode in Kenilworth, Cape Town, whose architecture is so admired that today

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