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BOOKSHOP
Enquiries or special orders for books can also be emailed to Helena Fagan at helena@fagan.co.za.
Pre-arranged pickups are also available in Camps Bay, Hout Bay and 156 Bree Street in Cape Town.
First published in 1988, this 2nd edition book comprises many years of research and Gwen Fagan's involvement with heritage gardens and old roses around the Cape.
Her knowledge was gained through much traveling locally and abroad, and as Landscape Architect, doing the research, landscape designs and plant lists for most of the historic gardens for her husband Gawie's over 200 restoration projects.
Gawie and Gwen would spend many a weekend traveling to remote gardens on their Moto-Gutzi and bringing back rose samples in a cooler box mounted on the back to photograph for the book. Gawie had set up an intricate lighting setup to capture the details of every rose.
Gwen ultimately became a world authority on the heritage roses of the Cape.
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 since disappeared.
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 of the farm buildings and small towns, many of them as aerial views.
For this book, these old negatives were restored and published as a unique and invaluable record of vernacular Karoo structures from the 1950's.
Twenty Cape Houses comprises a varied selection of Gawie Fagan's houses in the Cape.
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