Cape Town  ·  Africa  ·  By appointment

A Departure.

A private travel and culture advisory. For the trip that changes the way you see the world.

The work

Most people simply visit a place.
Few experience what it actually is.

Its soil. Its food. Its artists. Its conversations.

We work with a small number of clients who want the second thing. We design the full sequence. The experiences that aren't in the guidebooks. The food that tells you the history and future of a place. The people who share ideas that rearrange your world view. So that when you arrive, the place opens up.

Based in Cape Town. Working across the continent.

Four territories

01

Food & Wine

The speakeasy restaurant with a menu inspired by a playlist. The award-winning winemaker who started in a garage. Food as story. Wine as art.

02

Art

African contemporary. The artists, the studios, the advisors. The context behind the work.

03

Culture

The intimate concert. The 9th hole with the view. The healer who meets you where you are. The things you didn't know to ask for.

04

Style

The shoe boutique that hides a jewellery atelier on the third floor. The vintage dealer with a secret trove of holy grails in an unassuming warehouse. The craftsman who can build the dining room table you dreamed up. And the chairs too. The places that don't advertise.

A Departure

"Experience Africa.
Designed around you.
Down to the last detail."

Process

i.

We talk

Tell me where you're thinking, and what you want it to feel like. That's enough to start.

ii.

We design

We listen, then we build. Not a list of bookings. A considered sequence designed around who you are and what moves you.

iii.

You arrive

Relaxed. Every detail considered. Nothing left to do but be there.

Begin here

Tell us about
your departure.

Tell us where you're thinking. We'll take it from there.

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