ANNETTE KLINGER, FREELANCE WRITE R & THING-MAKER

What is your all-time favourite design icon?

The Morris chair. As a child, I always just knew it as my dad’s chair. When I moved into my first apartment, he gave it to me. I love its understated, timeless simplicity. Annette is a longtime VISI contributor with years of experience in writing about design, and we regularly ask her to bring her appreciative eye and sharp insight to architectural features and house stories alike. In this issue, Annette talked to architects Grete van As and Johan Wentzel about the designers who influenced their work (page 36) and explored a new Robert Silke-designed hotel in Green Point (page 122).