Establishment Founder Dawid Augustyn Designs His Own Blush-toned Apartment in Cape Town

Happily for Dawid Augustyn, the chance to set up home in Fresnaye, a desirable waterfront suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, happened seamlessly. An interior designer and founder of design company Establishment, Augustyn is also a quantity surveyor, and one of his recent projects in that role was Clarens, a new nine-unit apartment building in Fresnaye developed and designed by KLûK CGDT Property. “I’d been watching its journey from an insider’s perspective from the ground-up,” Augustyn recalls. “Their vision of a community lifestyle, based on a nonstandard approach to the look and feel of the building and interiors, resonated well with me.” He’s referring to the vision of Malcolm Kluk and Christiaan Gabriël du Toit, the celebrated African fashion designers who’ve expanded their bold aesthetic for couture under the label KLûK CGDT to entire environments. “We love crossing new frontiers, and property design and development is the natural progression,” Kluk says. “We’re not scared of color or pattern, and we use both of them in contemporary, international ways as we continue our exploration of what is African,” du Toit adds.