HEAVENLY HOMES What would the opposite of folly be? A building that is not purely decorative but practical, too?
Whatever it is, the De Wit family spent four years exploring what the answer might be on their farm in the Cradle of Humankind, northwest of Johannesburg. Lee, his wife, Lauren, and their son, Leo, have even ended up living in the result for a time to refine their ideas.
When the De Wit family moved to the farm more than a decade ago, people had lived and worked on the land for more than a century, and it bore the scars. Now, large sections of communal lands shared with neighbouring farms form a nature reserve.
Caught between a natural landscape and a purely artistic one – and set on the…
