Cape Town: interior design leader and a British bargain-hunter's dream | Homes and Property

Cape Town: interior design leader and a British bargain-hunter's dreamCape Town has become a world leader in interior design and now thanks to favourable exchange rates it's a British bargain-hunter's dream, too, discovers Pattie Barron

Move over, Milan: Cape Town, chosen as World Design Capital for 2014, is the go-to city to give your home a contemporary edge. Like Table Mountain, which looms above it, Cape Town's style is big, bold and spectacular, and as a shopping destination — currently with a keen 15-plus rand to the pound — it offers design paradise at dream prices.

Luxe living: Cape Town cool is captured in this home above the ocean, designed by award-winning South African architectural firm SAOTA and furnished by OKHA
Alfresco glamour: Carole Nevin's splashy animal-print tablecloth with bird of paradise napkinsPrimitive patterns in sumptuous shades rule at ClementinaTake a trip to Streetwires and bag a beaded lion's head, zebra or giraffe
Turquoise hand-blown glass vase from David ReadeSHOPPING TIPS:Wall of colour: Cape Quarter's Pierre Cronje displays tables with bright tops of paintbox weaves* South African Airways* The five-star Taj Cape Town hotel* The Grand Daddy Hotel* These firms can ship goods: