So arrives the exciting prospect of letting the old and the new, the loaded with meaning and the strictly stern, the sleek and the functional, merge with depth, yet remain trendy.

Kojabu got the opportunity to do the interior design of a new boutique hotel in the greatest city in the world. The beautiful high ceilings and face brick walls lend a feeling of warmth and lived-in familiarity and will whisk you away thinking you are somewhere in Brooklyn (NY), but you are actually in the heart of Cape Town.

Jacob likes to juxtapose the cooler industrial elements with furniture that includes elements of luxury and familiar comfort with plush textures.