LΕΙΤΜΟΤΙF - CAMPS BAY VILLA

HYGGE? SHE’LL PASS, SAYS GERMAN INTERIOR DESIGNER DANIELA GOTTSCHALK, WHOSE CAMPS BAY GUESTHOUSE HAS ATTRACTED ITS FAIR SHARE OF LOCATION SCOUTS AND INFLUENCERS WITH ITS IRREPRESSIBLY OTT INTERIOR.

- ANNETTE KLINGER

Mid-century Modern meets Pop Art in this luxury guesthouse’s kaleidoscopic lounge, featuring chairs by Block & Chisel, sofa and coffee table from MADE, light pendants by Light & Living and prints by Jonathan Adler.

RESTAURATEUR. Bar owner. Psychotherapist. Interior designer. As far as CVs go, Daniela Gottschalk's is quite prolific. But there's a linearity to the professions, as the Frankfurt-based Cape Town semigrant tells it: "Twenty years ago, I opened a restaurant; after that, I opened a bar.

Large photographic prints of Los Angeles, taken by owner Daniela Gottschalk, evoke the halcyon days of 1960s Hollywood.

At the bar, people would buy a drink... and want to tell me all their problems. I said, okay, I'm not listening to all that for a cappuccino - so I qualified as a psychotherapist." The interior design bug officially bit in 2015, when friends asked Daniela to decorate the interior of a holistic boutique hotel in Split, Croatia - and after that, the job offers started streaming in. "I figured out that I never actually needed to open a bar or restaurant in the first place, because all I'd actually wanted was to design their interiors," she says.

Black-and-white stripes, shades of turquoise and rounded arches repeat throughout the interior. The lobby features Chinese wedding cupboards by Lesnina, large chess pieces bought at a house clearance auction and a golden shelving unit by Maisons du Monde. The kitchen cabinetry, by TD Designs and Construction, is adorned with Daniela's custom-made handles, the shelving is from Anthropologie, and the dining table is a Bruges flea-market find.