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PUBLICATIONS
To order any of the books below, please send your request with your name, email or contact info and preferred delivery address to Helena Fagan at helena@fagan.co.za or whatsapp +27 82 6745054 and I will check the courier price and forward you the invoice and banking details.
Pre-arranged pickups are also available in Camps Bay, Hout Bay and 156 Bree Street in Cape Town.
Roses at the
Cape of Good Hope
R700
Gwendoline's Gawie
Gwen Fagan
R550
Brakdak
Flatroofs in the Karoo
R450
Gabriel Fagan
Twenty Cape Houses
R450
First published in 1988, this book comprises many years of research and a personal involvement with old roses at the Cape, as well as the people associated with them.
Gwen ultimately became a world authority on heritage roses at the Cape.
Her experience was gained through much traveling locally and abroad, and with doing the research, landscape designs and plant lists for most of the gardens for Gawie's over 200 restoration projects.
Gawie and Gwen would spend many a weekend traveling to remote gardens on their Moto-Gutzi and bring back rose samples in a cooler box mounted on the back to photograph for the book.
Gwendoline's Gawie, written by Gwen Fagan, relates to seventy years of her life with Gabriel Fagan, from their young student days to their married family and professional lives.
A wonderfully comprehensive and colourful life story of two inseparable and also remarkable people and their contribution to the heritage and architecture of South Africa.
BRAKDAK is a collection of old photographs with brief notes on flat-roofed vernacular architecture in the Karoo. They portray buildings and unspoilt village scenes, many of which have disappeared or suffered severe changes during the last half-century
Gabriel Fagan used to pilot his own aeroplane in the fifties and early sixties while he was working as resident architect for Volkskas bank and had to do a lot of travelling to small towns all over South Africa.
He fell in love with the indigenous architecture of the Karoo and started taking photographs, many of them aerial views, of the farms buildings and small towns. These old photographs were recently restored and are now a unique collection in that most of these building have since disapeared.
Twenty Cape Houses comprises a varied selection of Gawie's houses in the Cape.
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