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A Vision Of Calm

“We tried to expose all the character, creases and stories of the house.”

NO MATTER HOW MUCH OF A GROWN-UP you are, sometimes your mother knows best. This is the maxim brought to mind by the story of how mohair designer Frances van Hasselt came to own her lovely home in the remote country town of Prince Albert, in South Africa’s arid Great Karoo region.

Frances’s family first moved here when she was just a year old – so, she says, it has always been her “home

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