News: Karen Blixen Coffee Garden

(April 15th 2009)

Designvent have the honour of redesigning this prestigious site and picking up a few historical facts along the way.

We were asked to take a look at the existing website with the aim to redesign the site a present all the existing information with emphasis on making sure the historical elements were easily accessible.

The Karen Blixen Coffee Garden contains the Historic Swedo House which was the original hunting lodge/farm house which was built around 1906 to 1908. It is located approximately a half mile from the Karen Blixen (Bogani House) museum, and is 15 minutes from downtown Nairobi.

The historic Grogan/MacMillan Manor House was moved brick by brick from downtown Nairobi to the Coffee Garden in 2008 to save it from destruction. It is the site of the original farmhouse of the property, which now is near the Karen Blixen Museum (of the film “Out of Africa”). The Coffee Garden sits only 5 ½ acres of land with large hundred year old trees and a beautiful garden with hundreds of different varieties of blooming flowers, and a large population of birds.

http://www.karenblixencoffeegarden.com