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HIDDEN BEHIND A SIMPLE WHITE WALL AND FOREST TOWN’S ABUNDANT HIGHVELD SUMMER GREENERY IS THIS MODERNIST SHOWSTOPPER DESIGNED IN THE EARLY 1980s BY PANCHO GUEDES.

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VISI | FOREST TOWN HOUSE KNOWN FOR HIS SCULPTURAL AND WELL - THOUGHT - OUT BUILDINGS, PANCHO GUEDES WAS INSPIRED BY SURREALISM, AFRICAN ART AND ARCHITECT ANTONI GAUDÍ. THE COLEMANS are not your average suburbanites – although chatting to the humble Audrey Coleman, now 90, you wouldn’t guess it. She and her late husband, Max, were active human-rights advocates during the apartheid years, both working for the Detainees’ Parents Support Committee, with Audrey also a long-standing and celebrated member of the legendary humanrights organisation, Black Sash. House Coleman has major cred too. Built in the early 1980s, it’s a masterpiece of clean lines and geometric shapes and, though tailor-made to be its owners’ retirement home, it’s also a piece of South African design history. “Our son Colin was a student…

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