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We love these new designs by Vogel, particularly the innovative ‘Love Me Love Me Not’ side table. The table is available from Source and was designed in collaboration with Justin Plunkett from Joom.
Love Me Love Me Not Table: These delicate side tables are available individually or as a set of eight making up a full flower. The sculpted form of the base unfurls to reveal a surface like a floating leaf or petal.
Magnet Lounge Chair: The low-slung Magnet chairs invite you to lounge in absolute comfort. They are hand crafted, with clean sculpted lines.
Stretch Lounger: This pared-down piece is at once elegantly crisp and softly organic. The fluid lines of the warm timber base are in stark contrast to the sleek black lounging surface.
Nguni Head: Nguni horns have long been African symbols of sustainability and abundance. These beautiful forms can be used as decorative wall sculptures or welcoming hallway coat hooks.
To contact Vogel or view Vogel’s complete portfolio on Cape Town Creatives, click here.
The Globe Chair was originally designed and patented in 1921, and made in Durban until the early 1940’s. Everyone that sees the chair has a fond memory of a favourite grandmother using them in her kitchen. Its plain simplicity belies its real ingenuity, the unique bolt together assembly system. This incredibly strong assembly system and the durable solid bent wood frame is the reason that you still find these highly sought after chairs in use today. I felt the chair deserved a second chance, and so I am putting it back into production, having made one small improvement – hiding the assembly bolts without compromising on the strength and offering it in a variety of contemporary finishes, from raw beech to brightly coloured spray finishes.
HALDANE MARTIN
Inspired by smooth, water worn pebbles, the sculptural form of the Baba Papa lounger has been ergonomically shaped to enable one to recline in a variety of comfortable positions. The lightweight structure is made from 60% recycled stainless steel wire loops welded together to create an organically contoured diamond meshed surface. As stainless steel is rustproof, Baba Papa can be used in and outdoors. A removable upholstered seat is also available for increased comfort.
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Cape Town is one of South Africa’s most important creative hubs. Cape Town Creatives was started with the vision to centralise information relating to the creative industry in Cape Town. Here is a list of excellent furniture, lighting and homeware designers/companies based in Cape Town. Click on the names below to view the full portfolios on the Cape Town Creatives website.
Natalie du Toit of Fundi Light & Living has just joined Cape Town Creatives. See more of her stunning work here.
The Western Cape Furniture Design Competition aims to promote design as one of the key tools for a furniture manufacturer to improve its competitive edge and stimulate economic growth, both locally and internationally.
The competition theme is: LIVE.
The LIVE theme seeks to inspire a creative take on furniture that forms part of living environments – tables, chairs, couches, beds or other furniture from our living environment, indoor or outdoors.
The finalists and awards for the Western Cape Furniture Design Competition 2010 will be presented at Decorex Cape Town from 23 to 27 April 2010, at the Cape Town Convention Centre.
Entries close 19 February 2010
Katie Thompson of REcreate is the newest member of Cape Town Creatives. She specialises in bringing new life to discarded pieces of junk from by-gone era’s.
Graduating with a distinction from Design Time School of Interior Design in Cape Town, Katie Thompson has seven years experience in the design, furniture and fabric industry in London and Cape Town.
The inspiration behind Recreate was Katie’s passion and flair for transforming the ordinary to the extraordinary.
Katie never works within established stylistic boundaries. She creates an eclectic combination of styles, materials and finishes; this skill highlights her passion and her ability to find the intrinsic beauty and new, hidden purpose in the old, discarded items she chooses for her pieces.
A hoarder of all things useless, impractical, broken, colourful and shiny; Katie’s designs show tell tale signs of her Dadaist leanings.
By nature an extremely energetic, bubbly and creative individual, Katie’s energy filters through to her work and into her pieces and the lives of her clients.
View other work by Katie Thompson’s here:
Hoover Lamp
Bucket Stools
Suitcase Chair
