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Styling Leana Schoeman Photographs Elsa Young Original text Bridget Hilton Barber
When August 2010
Where Magoesbaskloof, Limpopo
What A country villa… ‘Versailles with touches of Indo and Afro kitsch’ is how Henk Smit describes his remarkable home in Limpopo’s Magoebaskloof mountains. With a gloriously decadent reception room and chandelier-lit family kitchen, it boasts a Victorian conservatory resplendent with a Louis XIV couch and antique French chairs, an opulent formal dining room and even an indoor swimming pool. The sense of luxury is continued in a profusion of textures, soft furnishings and art.
Who Henk and Monica Smit
By The Crystal Conservatory, thecrystalconservatory.co.za
‘We tried to bring in as much light as possible through the use of huge windows, mirrors and reflected light’ – Henk Smit
