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Saying we’re excited about Fine Living, David

Muirhead’s retail outlet and events venue in

Parkmore, would be the understatement of the

century.Seriously,it’stotallyswoon-worthy!

I
n David Muirhead’s home you’ll news is, there’s no cure, the

always ind champagne. Möt, to be good news is, that you don’t
exact. And if there was ever a time to have to practice any form of
pop the cork, now would be it. David, self-restraint (sheesh, we’re

together with his brother-in-law, Ian horrible at that). Even if you
Groves, has inally realised his life-long make an impulsive buy here

dream of opening a retail outlet and and there, woosah . David
events venue, Fine Living.has personally chosen every
As a three-year-old David had a scrap single piece of furniture

book where he’d co-ordinate diferent and accessory so you can
interiors. It didn’t stop there. Not too bet it’s gonna be downright
long afterwards he was drawing plans fabulous. In any case, life is

for houses and playing shopkeeper atway too short not to invest
a little store his parents built for him at in pretty things. A collection
the entrance to their Drakensberg farm. like this is not achieved

‘I was the kid who’d rearrange our home with a tick list. ‘Everything
on a weekly basis and pay my brother is personally hand-picked
to swop bedrooms, again and again, so I because it’s bespoke,

could redecorate.’beautiful and interesting.’
for the suits, David hasJust overIf your
thought of you too ... the boardroom is a year ago,taste isEverything is personally hand-picked

the kind of place even Donald Trump this
would feel at home in. And if there’s one was abecause it’s bespoke, beautiful and interesting
thing we know about David, nothingbar .

is set in stone and the space is likely to no wait,
evolve. He sure knows how to keep us a Portuguese restaurant . hell, who somewhat questionable when it comes
on our toes ... and we love it.remembers, now that the Fine Living to mixing and matching, we’re gonna

‘I also want to use this space to uplift showroom has opened its doors. Create hook you up, baby. The David Muirhead
new artists and give them a platform to an impression it most certainly does. & Associates design studio (that he runs
showcase their work, although I do love
We’d even go so far as to say it has a with his sister, Mandy Groves) is on the
William Kentridge and Deborah Bell.stellar impact. It’s no wonder Davidpremises too. Shhh ... no one has to
I think if I hadn’t done interior designhas the look of someone with his nose know your secret.

I would have been a photographer.to the grindstone . getting a major Did someone say something about a
All forms of art come back to theproject like this of the ground is no party? Uh, we did. Fine Living is also a
same principles of proportion and mean feat and we suspect there was boutique function space that can cater

composition.’quite a bit of midnight oil burnt in the to your every whim. You like the sound
Now, we don’t like to blow our own process. ‘Luckily I live just down the road of that, don’t you? From a 50th birthday
trumpet (well, maybe just a little) but . in the same street, actually. Once,bash with up to 60 of your pals, to a

perhaps we deserve a toast too ... for I walked here at two in the morning more intimate cocktail party in the open
letting you in on this ind. But the real because I couldn’t remember if I’d put air courtyard for you and 15 friends
hero of the hour? David! All together the alarm on.’to celebrate that promotion ... we’re

now, ‘For he’s a jolly good fellow, for he’s Brace yourself, because when you picturing a moonlit, Highveld evening.
a jolly good fellow...’Way to go David! enter the showroom you’re gonna be Yes, please! It also includes the use of
No. 10 Parkmore Square, Olympia sorely tempted to spend. Your eyes the Westwood lounge and bar area

Avenue, Parkmore, Sandton.will light up and you’re going to get which gets its name from the covetable
Details: 011-784-5555.a serious case of the wants. The badVivienne Westwood wallpaper. As

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