Babylonstoren

i love the name. i want to go here! i want to eat fresh food and drink tea and coffee out of pretty little containers. end of story. happy friday blog peeps!! xo amanda

from remodelista:

It's never-ending winter in New York, but in South Africa summer is in full swing at the newly opened Babylonstoren, a resort in the Cape Winelands outside Franschhoek. A three-year restoration project of design doyenne Karen Roos (the former editor of Elle Decoration), Babylonstoren is a classic Cape Dutch farm dating back to 1690. Roos enlisted French landscape designer Patrice Taravella to oversee the vast gardens, which are inspired by the original Cape Town Company Gardens established by the Dutch East India Co. in the 17th century. The eight-acre formal gardens feature more than 300 varieties of edible plants, with areas devoted to fruits, vegetables, berries, indigenous plants, bees—even a prickly pear maze. Go to Babylonstoren for more information.