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A BOULDER APPROACH

Billowy sheer curtains, sleek handworked tiles and terraces of olive trees – this airy home has all the makings of a quintessential Mediterranean bolthole. Yet it isn’t on the shores of Corsica or sidling up against the Valencia boardwalk. Rather, it’s perched on the slopes of Lion’s Head in Cape Town, and overlooks the umbrella-pegged stretch of Clifton coastline that’s slung around the city’s Atlantic Seaboard.

‘The whole idea was that it needed to have a Mediterranean feel throughout,’ says gallerist and interior designer Dylan Thomaz of Studio Dylan Thomaz, who achieved this aesthetic through a nuanced layering of

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