Spilling over a rocky hillside in the Westcliff suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, is Lotus House – home to designer Lezanne Viviers and her husband Walter Anderson. Whilst living in a newly-renovated 1960s apartment in the city’s Hyde Park district, and not planning to relocate, the couple stumbled across this imposing three-level, glass-fronted property.
They fell in love with the 3,480m² structure’s strong horizontal and vertical lines, which reminded them of Fallingwater, the most famous work by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, which was partly built over a waterfall in the Bear Run Nature Reserve in rural Pennsylvania.
‘THE WAY TO CREATE SOMETHING NEW IS TO COMBINE THINGS DIFFERENTLY’
In 2018, when they moved into the property that was designed and commissioned by Kock & Orsmond Architects, it had been uninhabited for ten years. Having only had two previous owners, many of the original features remained unscathed, from the built-in wardrobes, shelving and panelling, to the main bathroom, with its original blue ceramic tiles and
