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CUE: The luxury goods market in South Africa is still extremely limited in size. Customers with deep pockets and a love of elegance are few and far between. And they travel widely, which tends to mean they shop overseas and order their personalised stationery from London or New York. Yet in the past five years, a Cape Town husband-and-wife team have established a thriving printing and bespoke stationery company. With only three staff, the Letterpress Company produces bespoke stationery paired with hand-folded, tissue-lined envelopes. Alex Duval Smith went along to their workshop in the Observatory area of Cape Town.
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