Nicola Hadfield Blue-Chip Projects

Progressive property developers who want to maximise the commercial opportunities they offer are increasingly aware that Nicola Hadfield design & marketing, Consulting provides them with a rare cutting edge.

However skilled the architect, the spaces created within the bricks and mortar require synergy, style and public appeal, and this is where the Nicola Hadfield touch is proving so effective.

Property developers, private individuals, both in South Africa and internationally, have already used her creative flair, marketing skills and business acumen to their advantage. This is because she has an enviable ability to identify the new and the unconventional, setting trends rather than following them, and using them to attract public attention on a sustainable basis – with the emphasis on sustainable.

Nicola is one of South Africa’s most dynamic, high-profile, multi-award-winning businesswomen. Besides being an interior designer, she founded the prestigious interior design and décor exhibition Decorex SA in 1994 and won the US-based Star Group’s 15 Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World in 2003.

She loves the challenge of changing perspectives in a way that enables clients’ projects to reach their full potential.

Design Quarter 
- Johannesburg’s newest retail playground is the place to go for your décor and design fix.
Fourways used to be all smallholdings and the odd country restaurant, but this Jo’burg suburb is now a growing maze of cluster homes.  With so many new homemakers in the area, a shopping complex devoted to design and décor seems likely to be an excellent addition to the neighborhood.  Enter Design Quarter – a one stop retail solution.

Original in both approach and architecture, part of the centre if built around a large open-air piazza and the remainder of the naturally lit steel, glass and stone building comprises a series of double-volume stores spread across three floors.

Mr Price Home can only be described as a megastore of affordable homeware – it stocks everything from batik scatter cushions to brilliantly produced reproduction furniture.  Across the square, Woolworth’s features an awesome noodle bar, extensive homeware section and a furniture selection.  Another notable member of the design gathering is the first-of-its-kind Plascon Living Concepts showroom, which offers a complete service with regard to all things paint- and colour related, including access to Plascon Visualiser software, double storey, wall mounted colour palates and mood boxes to inspire creativity.

At night, the centre downs décor tools and dons its entertaining hat – Design Quarter’s relaxed alfresco eating area is set to become one of Jo’burg’s most happening nightspots. Kitchen Bar is an exquisitively appointed bar and restaurant, and other restaurants to look forward to are the much-anticipated Mythos and the ever-popular Primi Piatti and Tribes. With all this on their doorsteps, natives of Fourway may never need to brave the notorious William Nicol traffic over the highway again!

(Review from House and Leisure)