Cape Town-based interior design and brand architecture company Rumour Has It is one of the leading players in the South African interior design industry.  

Its experienced team of qualified designers works with its clients to create unique, purposeful and distinctive commercial and residential solutions, with the company’s particular focus on brand architecture ensuring that the client receives completed projects which clearly represent them and their brand identity.  

Rumour Has It’s extensive portfolio includes projects in the commercial sector, including restaurants, corporate offices, healthcare and hospitality as well as luxury residential homes, and its team has many years of experience of  working with clients in both the national and international markets.  

Recent projects Rumour Has It has worked on include Le Petit Manoir restaurant and guest house, Graham Beck marketing offices, Rondebosch Medical Centre and Life Vincent Pellotti hospital as well as private properties in many different styles and sizes but all showcasing the very best in luxury homes. 

As a member of the Green Building Council of South Africa, Rumour Has It  focuses on designing, building and operating in a sustainable manner to protect the environment of today and for the future.  

Led by directors Analise de Beer and Lourens de Beer, who are supported by a team of hard-working creatives in interior design, brand architecture, graphic design, IT and project management, Rumour Has It has been carving out a reputation as one of the hardest-working practices in the competitive South African interior design marketplace.  

This is why Rumour Has It has been awarded the prestigious accolade of Best Luxury Commercial Interior Design for ‘Ernie Els Wines’ in South Africa by Luxury Lifestyle Awards, recognition which is truly deserved.  

Ernie Els Wines was founded in 1999 by the world-famous South African golfing hero Ernie Els, with the intention of producing world class wines to mirror some of the greatest vintages he had been fortunate to enjoy during his playing career which took him all around the world.  

Skilfully crafted by wine-making legend Louis Strydom in the famous wine-making region of Helderberg in Stellenbosch, Ernie Els Wines are known all over South Africa and the wider wine-drinking world.  

Rumour Has It was appointed interior brand architects with the commission of developing a complete core concept with overall brand rollout, ensuring that the new brand DNA was woven through the entire company and the wine experience on its magnificent estate near the Helderberg mountains.  

The team at Rumour Has It based the new design concept on a rustic but modern farmhouse style with local themes, and carried this concept across all parts of the winery, including wine-tasting areas, a farm-to-table restaurant, a boutique fermentation and barrel cellar and wine library as well as private Winemaker’s and Chef’s table experiences.  

This new brand identity was consistently applied throughout the Ernie Els wine estate, through the innovative use of textiles and fabrics, commissioned artworks and bespoke furniture and furnishings, purpose-built light fittings and accessories and the holistic design approach. A range of newly-commissioned uniforms, signage, wallpaper and packaging completed the Life and Soul of Wine, Art and Culinary experiences.  

It is Rumour Has It’s attention to details on projects such as Ernie Els wines which give the studio its well-deserved reputation for perfection in design tasks big and small, with no detail overlooked and nothing left to change. This is why Rumour Has It is a worthy recipient of this prestigious Luxury Lifestyle Award.