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Place / Western Cape

Cape Town Central

03 records held for this place, filed under the rituals that happen here.

Province codeWC
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Flower sellers’ stalls on Adderley Street, Cape Town: cut flowers and greenery standing in buckets along the pavement.
Cape Town Central · WCPT_001·WC

The stall is designed every morning

Flowers, buckets, and a layout that has to work in one glance from a moving car.

The TradeDiscott · CC BY-SA 3.0
Packages of raw meat on a table: a marinated beef roast, lamb chops, boerewors and chicken wings.
Cape Town Central · WCPT_002·WC

It starts as shopping

Before there is fire, there is a table with four kinds of meat on it and a decision about quantities.

The BraaiVictorgrigas · CC BY-SA 3.0
A market clothing stall under a white canopy, with a red and black patterned shirt and a purple dress on a rack.
Cape Town Central · WCPT_005·WC

The canopy is the architecture

At Greenmarket the stall is a roof, a rack and a colour decision, and that is the entire building.

The TradeMatti Blume · CC BY-SA 4.0