CHRISTIAAN VAN ASWEGEN Director architect at Hours Clear

Your blow-the-budget purchase An end-of-production-line Tahiti lamp by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis Design (top centre). Favourite item in your home Cave Monochrome by my friend, the artist Pierre Vermeulen (above, second from right) – a bright vermilion gesso on aluminium. An artwork you have your eye on/your favourite South African artist My favourite local artist is the sculptor Kyle Morland. I’d love to have one (or all!) of his large steel and polyurethane floor pieces from the “Show me you know me” collection (below le ). Must-have tech gadget I can’t go without my Bose Sound Sport wireless headphones (top right). Favourite place in the world For travel – Genoa, Italy. My favourite museum is the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin by Mies van der Rohe, recently restored by David Chipperfield; and the Palm House at the London Barbican is my favourite public garden. Grooming essential Commes de Garçons Amazingreen fragrance. A book on your wish list I’d love to get my hands on Ettore Spalletti’s updated monograph by Electa – and Valerio Olgiati’s Non-Referential Architecture (above, second from le ) is on the Christmas reading list. Favourite buildings/pieces of architecture Villa Savoye by Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer’s Whitney Museum in New York, and the Fondation Cartier in Paris by Jean Nouvel (above le ). An item that you wish you’d never sold/given away A bright yellow KV1 Vola kitchen mixer tap (above right) – but I don’t really regret selling it, because its current owner cherishes it as much as I did. Your smartest-ever find/purchase A seven-seater sectional Togo sofa by Michel Ducaroy for Ligne Roset (circa 1973), in the classic Alcantara orange faux suede (below right).