Hidden Cape Town

Paul Duncan is a former editorial director at Conde Nast Independent Magazines and former editor of Conde Nast's House & Garden (South Africa). Paul was educated in Cape Town and at the University of Edinburgh, where he received an MA (Hons) degree in Fine Arts. His career has included a stint as a speechwriter and researcher to the chairman of the London-based Royal Fine Art Commission. His published books include two collections of South African interiors: Down South and Down South Two, and Style Icons. Alain Proust was born and educated in France, but has spent his working life in Cape Town. Photography is both his business and his passion. His work can be seen in over 20 books, including Colonial Houses of South Africa, A Portrait of Cape Town, Everyday Cape Malay Cooking, Groote Schuur: great granary to stately home and Nederburg: the first two hundred years.

Introduction; Groote Kerk; Mount Nelson Hotel; Nederlandse Gereformeerde Kerk Tafelberg; Founder's House Bishops; Sendinggestig Museum; National Library of South Africa; Gereformeerde Kerkgebou Hof Street; City Hall; Palm Tree Mosque; Old Mutual; Taj Hotel; Centre for the Book; Koopmans-de Wet House; St George's Cathedral; Welgelegen; Old Town House; Royal Observatory; New Somerset Hospital; Lodge de Goede Hoop; Huguenot House; The Old Synagogue & The Great Synagogue; Greek Orthodox Cathedral; Bertram House Museum; Muller's Optometrists; Evangelical Lutheran Church; Secunde's House; The Cape Town Rifles (Dukes) Officers' Mess; Groote Schuur; Central Methodist Mission; Irma Stern Museum.