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Fashion designer Lezanne Viviers and her husband, Walter Anderson, hadn’t intended to move from their cozy apartment in Hyde Park, Johannesburg, let alone buy a new house—until they stumbled upon a modernist gem on a kopje, or small hill, overlooking the city at the junction of the Melville, Parkview, and Westcliff neighborhoods.
“When I walked in, I was blown away by the view,” says Lezanne. So the couple put in a “cheeky” offer on the brick-clad, 1960s home. It was swiftly declined. When the property went back on the market some months later, the duo reached out directly to the owners—a couple who had left the house uninhabited for a decade—and arranged a rent-to-purchase deal in 2018.
“We were able to start restoring the home even before we owned it,”…
