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VESSELS BRASS ANATOMY DESIGN SOUTH AFRICA
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VESSELS BRASS YEAR: 2013 DESIGNER: ANATOMY DESIGN/MEGAN HESSE, ANDREA KLEINLOOG PRODUCER: ANATOMY DESIGN
This sleek and elegant set of vessels comes from Anatomy Design in Johannesburg. The question of whether they are vases or containers is a basic one for the design, since on the one hand, they are objects that allow the designer an enormous amount of freedom; but on the other hand, they provide just as few guidelines for orientation. The vessels on exhibit here, made of brass-plated spun steel, look expensive. They are decorative, but with a clean and understated sophistication.
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F O R E S T WA R E CERAMIC OTTOMAN ART IN THE FOREST SOUTH AFRICA
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F O R E S T WA R E CERAMIC OTTOMAN YEAR: 2010 DESIGNER: ART IN THE FOREST/ANTHONY SHAPIRO PRODUCER: ART IN THE FOREST/EMMANUEL NCUBE
Art in the Forest is a ceramic centre where artists and artisans work full time or rent a studio space. The organisation is under the direction of the well-known South African master potter Anthony Shapiro. As many as six times a year their gallery holds exhibitions showcasing the works of prominent South African ceramicists. All of the profits from Art in the Forest are donated to their Light from Africa Foundation and are used, on the one hand, to provide free pottery classes for children who have no access to art education and, on the other, to organise therapeutic healing courses in
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clay and ceramics. The object on display here comes from the Forest Signature Collection.
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WOODEN LONG-BIKE CAMERON BARNES SOUTH AFRICA
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WOODEN LONG-BIKE YEAR: 2012 DESIGNER: CAMERON BARNES PRODUCER: CAMERON BARNES
Cameron Barnes, with degrees in Architecture and Environmental Design, has designed and built the Wooden Long-Bike. Because manufactured freight bicycles from Europe and the United States were too expensive for the designer and maker, he decided to improvise with materials that he knew and could work with. The frame comes from an old British Postal Service bike, with an extension and racks attached without any welding, for it was important to Barnes that the timber construction could be completely disassembled and be adaptable. The timber used, Eucalyptus cladocalyx (sugar gum), an ‘alien’ species grown in South Africa, is hard and durable.
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YELLOW DOT DEÁNNE VILJOEN, RENÉE ROSSOUW SOUTH AFRICA
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YELLOW DOT YEAR: 2014 DESIGNER: DEÁNNE VILJOEN IN COLLABORATION WITH RENÉE ROSSOUW PRODUCER: DE STEYL
The series Play Play Pattern, to which the piece exhibited here, Yellow Dot, belongs, is the result of a collaboration between the designer Déanne Vijoen of the furniture company De Steyl and the pattern designer Renée Roussow. These modular plywood chests are mounted on casters that allow them to be moved freely. Created with pure and simple lines, they suddenly take on character, charm, wit, and a unique identity once a perfectly matched pattern has been applied. The result is a series of aesthetically appealing, contemporary, and unmistakeably South African objects.
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PEBBLE STOOL DOKTER & MISSES, RONEL JARDAAN SOUTH AFRICA
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PEBBLE STOOL YEAR: 2014 DESIGNER: DOKTER & MISSES/ADRIAAN HUGO, KATY TAPLIN/RONEL JARDAAN PRODUCER: DOKTER & MISSES, RONEL JARDAAN
This furniture is the product of a cooperative effort between Katy Taplin and Adriaan Hugo of Dokter and Misses and the South African textile designer Ronel Jordaan. The Pebble Stool unites the hand-felted stone forms for which Ronel is known with Dokter and Misses’ bent steel forms. The result is a completely original piece of furniture that is appealing for its size and contrast of materials. The seating surface, which looks like an overdimensional marble pebble, is mounted on a wire latticework frame. The surface of this object has been specially treated so that it can be used both indoors and out.
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F L U O R O VA S E S GONE RURAL SOUTH AFRICA
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F L U O R O VA S E S YEAR: 2014 DESIGNER: GONE RURAL PRODUCER: GONE RURAL
These fun vases come from the renowned Swaziland-based sustainable home dĂŠcor company Gone Rural, with its creative director Philippa Thorne. Representing a new interpretation of traditional African patterns, their contemporary look comes from the brilliant colours and the enlarged scale of the patterns on them. The vases are all the more fascinating because their form is strongly inspired by classical pottery, while the material and weaving technique employed lend them an unexpected softness. They were made freehand by 12 weavers from the Ngwavuma region in Swaziland from a combination of recycled waste textiles
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and natural fibres. Gone Rural’s objective is to make use of the classical handicraft skills of the weavers in Swaziland and to give these women a future through contemporary design. In addition, Gone Rural and Philippa Thorne founded a not-profit organisation in 2007 to implement health, education, and empowerment programmes for the women and their communities. Since its inception, the organisation has positively impacted the lives of over 20,000 Swazis in rural areas.
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LONG LEG MIRROR JASPER EALES SOUTH AFRICA
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LONG LEG MIRROR YEAR: 2013 DESIGNER: JASPER EALES PRODUCER: LOCAL CAPE TOWN MANUFACTURERS
Jasper Eales has designed a series of mirrors. The one on show here, the Long Leg Mirror, is engaging because of its clear forms and balanced proportions. It leans casually against the wall, but there is no fear of its breaking. A small oak tray supplies the necessary place for makeup, hairbrush, or wristbands and bows. The mirror is no more and no less than it promises to be. But that is as it should be: it’s convincing.
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THE CAMO CLOCK JESSEJAMES SOUTH AFRICA
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THE CAMO CLOCK YEAR: 2013 DESIGNER: JESSEJAMES/JESSE EDE, JAMES BISSET PRODUCER: JESSEJAMES
The designer duo JesseJames has produced The Camo Clock, which camouflages the hands so they can scarcely be seen, let alone read. A round disc cut from oriented strand board (OSB) with two hands that are also made of the same material make telling the time a challenge – but a beautiful one! The raw, effortlessly produced clock comes wax-sealed in an elegant cardboard box – how fitting!
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KREEP PLANTER JOE PAINE SOUTH AFRICA
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KREEP PLANTER YEAR: 2008 DESIGNER: JOE PAINE PRODUCER: JOE PAINE
Joe Paine is a furniture designer and maker based in Johannesburg who focuses on outdoor applications, with a particular interest in the world of plants and birds. The Kreep Planter is an internationally recognised object that allows plants to be mounted on the wall. Both modular and expandable, it provides a simple but innovative and aesthetically interesting solution.
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C A R R Y TA B L E LEG STUDIOS SOUTH AFRICA
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C A R R Y TA B L E YEAR: 2014 DESIGNER: LEG STUDIOS/GIULIA ODENDAAL, TIM RICHERT PRODUCER: LEG STUDIOS
The Carry Table by Leg Studios is a classical example of the flat-pack furniture so typical of a certain Swedish furniture giant. Packed flat and put together with only a single screw, it is easy for even the most inexperienced craftsperson to assemble without instructions. What is unusual about this table, which has been conceived as a laptop desk, is that it allows you to sit and work up close with ease, in contrast to so many other small tables whose legs or thick middle column get in the way. The Carry Table provides an elegant solution to this problem and offers an integrated handle so it can easily be picked up and moved – hence the name!
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L AY E R E D B L A C K LISA FIRER DESIGN SOUTH AFRICA
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L AY E R E D B L A C K YEAR: 2010 DESIGNER: LISA FIRER DESIGN PRODUCER: LISA FIRER DESIGN
Lisa Firer Design, founded by the ceramic artist of the same name in Cape Town when she employed two assistants, who have since become crafters in their own right, is a studio that creates various types of ceramics. The particular appeal of the porcelain objects shown here lies in their formal simplicity, so atypical for objects made of this material. The minimalist form becomes an archetype and is then repeated. The repetition is recognisable but each object has individual traits and is not a real copy, unlike products that have been manufactured. It is these differences in the repetitions that are the studio’s signature.
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C U R VA C E O U S FLOW 2 MARTINE JACKSON SOUTH AFRICA
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C U R VA C E O U S FLOW 2 YEAR: 2013 DESIGNER: MARTINE JACKSON PRODUCER: MARTINE JACKSON
Martine Jackson is a ceramicist whose work lies at the interface of art, artisanship, and design. Besides making individual works such as plates, bowls, vases, or pots, to which group the present object belongs, Martine also collaborates with companies, which has resulted in a set of cutlery and a line of ceramics that includes a platter, bowls, and a vase. Her works are strongly inspired by the patterns and forms of traditional South African arts and crafts.
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CHAIRMAN NAWAAZ SALDULKER SOUTH AFRICA
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CHAIRMAN YEAR: 2012 DESIGNER: NAWAAZ SALDULKER PRODUCER: NAWAAZ SALDULKER
On first impression, Chairman by Nawaaz Saldulker seems slightly odd, but not at all in a negative way. The chair begs to be investigated and, most of all, to be understood.
highly interesting for their experimental approach and do not at all reflect the negative stereotype of the so-called ‘upcycling design’.
Except for the existing backrest, the basic frame of the furniture is made of steel, around which extruded recycled plastic has been woven to make the seat and the lower portion of the chair. The use of waste as a raw material in combination with traditional crafts – in this case weaving – is a focal point for many South African designers. A large number of the resulting objects are also
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STREET SLEEPER OLIVER BRAIN SOUTH AFRICA
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STREET SLEEPER YEAR: 2013 DESIGNER: STREET SLEEPER/OLIVER BRAIN PRODUCER: STREET SLEEPER/CHAWAL WADI
The Street Sleeper by the South African designer Oliver Brain is a social design project where sleeping bags are sewed for the homeless from upcycled PVC advertising banners. By night, they offer protection; by day, they turn into rucksacks. Street Sleeper’s long-term goal is to bring up a positive change in our society. The first step is, to transform the negative environmental consequences of rubbish into immediate relief for those who live on the street. A donation of ZAR150 (ca. €10) will gift a homeless person a Street Sleeper, but of far greater impact than the donation alone is the awareness raised and the ensuing dialogue that develops about life on the street.
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LIQUORICE VESSELS RR STUDIO SOUTH AFRICA
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LIQUORICE VESSELS YEAR: 2014 DESIGNER: RR STUDIO/RENÉE ROSSOUW PRODUCER: MERVYN GERS CERAMICS
Renée Rossouw is an architect, artist, and pattern designer located in Cape Town. It is a joy to find such an artist on the contemporary design scene. At a time when architects are only slowly daring to use true colours once again, patterns are usually met with wide eyes and a lack of understanding. In design schools patterns are also rarely regarded as a subject worthy of serious consideration that students should be confronted with. It is therefore simply refreshing to see Renée’s aesthetically high quality and colourful works now. She believes her inspiration came from Lego sets of the 1980s and a giant atlas, It’s a Big Big World, which
she was given for her seventh birthday. Who knows? In any case, her works show a South African identity that would be considered attractive anywhere in the world.
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THE LOOKING GLASS – KEUS SOBEIT STUDIO SOUTH AFRICA
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THE LOOKING GLASS – KEUS YEAR: 2011 DESIGNER: SOBEIT STUDIO/BARTEL VAN VUUREN PRODUCER: SOBEIT STUDIO
Studio Sobeit is located in a wonderful art deco building in the village of Muizenberg at the base of a mountain of the same name. As they themselves state, their desire is ‘to make the ordinary obsolete’. The studio’s highly original and humorous objects are all produced on the premises. The Looking Glass – Keus is a decorative mirror that almost seems to come from another world. The animals and trees that crown the top of the mirror are reminiscent of illustrations in fairy tale books, giving it an almost magical quality.
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ROOKIE DESK LAMP SUTLA DESIGN SOUTH AFRICA
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ROOKIE DESK LAMP YEAR: 2014 DESIGNER: SUTLA DESIGN/ALTUS VAN ZIJL, BRIGITTE HAUPTFLEISCH PRODUCER: SUTLA DESIGN
SUTLA is a team of two furniture, product, and interior designers, Brigitte Hauptfleisch and Altus van Zijl. They themselves describe their work as sustainable, ontrend, locally made with attention to detail, and boasting clear lines and colours that pop. Whether the Rookie desk lamp has all that is not apparent at first glance, but one thing it does have is charm. With its big eye – or is it a face – and sporting a baseball cap, it sits there with its head sunken or proudly uplifted and looks things over – a sleek object full of character.
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TIN TEAPOT HOMEBAKES SOUTH AFRICA
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TIN TEAPOT YEAR: 2009 DESIGNER: HOMEBAKES/WENDY MCLACHLAN PRODUCER: EMVEE POTTERIES
This teapot from the Tin Can Ceramics collection was created by the designer Wendy McLachlan, who lives and works in Cape Town. Its form fits the stereotypes that we have etched in our memories from visits to our grandparents, films, or illustrations and probably invokes some nostalgia in many of us. Only at second glance or when one begins to pick it up is the intended humour apparent: the form of the body of the teapot incomes from an ordinary tin that might have held pureed tomatoes or pineapple slices.
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CONTINENTAL BEDLINGTON POODLE MILK STOOL WIID DESIGN SOUTH AFRICA
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CONTINENTAL & BEDLINGTON POODLE MILK STOOL YEAR: 2011 DESIGNER: WIID DESIGN/LAURIE WIID VAN HEERDEN PRODUCER: WIID DESIGN
The continental & bedlington poodle milk stool comes from the young designer Laurie Wiid van Heerden in Cape Town, who works under the label Wiid Design. In this project, the archetype of the three-legged milking stool has been reinvented with a mixture of a classical material – in this case wood – with an unconventional one – cork. The 100% natural raw material cork is buoyant, impermeable, elastic, able to be pressed, and exerts a positive influence on the thermal and acoustic properties of any space – reason enough for designers to work with this material which has been rather ignored by the mainstream design world. W W W. W I I D D E S I G N . C O . Z A
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PONY DESK CHAIR Y TSAI DESIGN STUDIO SOUTH AFRICA
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PONY DESK CHAIR YEAR: 2013 DESIGNER: Y TSAI DESIGN STUDIO PRODUCER: ALLOFFICE FURNITURE
The designer and architect Y Tsai enjoys working with the social aspects of furniture design. This multi-functional desk and chair, with the telling name Pony Desk Chair, is just as suited to playing as to learning. With its clean design, it is affordable to produce and solid, fulfils its intended functions, saves space – and children love it! Y Tsai was able to realise this furniture jointly with the company AllOffice Furniture as a CSR (corporate social responsibility) project. The goal is to drive out the dreariness in over-full and financially disadvantaged schools with this bright, cheery furniture, for
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especially young children need exciting shapes and colours to stimulate their imagination and creativity. The first batch of 30 units was donated to the Vissershok Primary School.
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SOLDIER SCREEN DOKTER & MISSES, GONE RURAL SOUTH AFRICA
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SOLDIER SCREEN YEAR: 2014 DESIGNER: DOKTER & MISSES/ADRIAAN HUGO, KATY TAPLIN/GONE RURAL PRODUCER: GONE RURAL
After a commission for an office screen failed to come to fruition, Dokter and Misses decided to tackle the project themselves. So to that end they teamed up with the Swazi social and handicraft organisation Gone Rural, whose Fluoro vases are also on display in this exhibition. This collaboration resulted in woven room dividers or screens that are mounted on a slender steel frame: a centuries-old weaving technique has found its way into a modern office environment. The screens maintain a clean graphic look and, besides the function of separation, also fulfil decorative needs, providing aesthetic
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accents in the room. The often so strictly enforced separation between design and artisanship is now becoming obsolete. Designers can and should have the courage to explore the work of decorative artisans and draw inspiration from it for their own new products.
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C O R K A B I TAT I O N WIID DESIGN, DHK ARCHITECTS SOUTH AFRICA
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C O R K A B I TAT I O N YEAR: 2014 DESIGNER: WIID DESIGN, DHK ARCHITECTS, SUP. BY AMORIM CORK & [O]BJECT PRODUCER: WIID DESIGN SUPPORTED BY CNC ROUT DESIGN
Corkabitation is a joint project from Laurie Wiid van Heerden (Wiid Design), Aram Lello (dhk architects), Amorim (the world’s largest cork distributor), and Andre James ([o]bject house). The furniture and lighting products are part of a larger concept for a cork pavilion, which has been endorsed by WDC2014 as one of their transformative design projects. The 100% natural raw material cork is buoyant, impermeable, elastic, able to be pressed, and exerts a positive influence on the thermal and acoustic properties of any space – reason enough for designers to work with this W W W. D H K . C O . Z A W W W. W I I D D E S I G N . C O . Z A W W W. A M O R I M C O R K . C O . Z A
material which has been rather ignored by the mainstream design world. The simple abstract geometrical shapes of these cork objects are modular and can be used in combination or as single room accents.
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KONIKA S TA N D I N G L A M P LEG STUDIOS SOUTH AFRICA
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KONIKA S TA N D I N G L A M P YEAR: 2013 DESIGNER: LEG STUDIOS/GIULIA ODENDAAL, TIM RICHERT PRODUCER: WIRE WORLD
This beautiful combination of a standing and hanging lamp is the creation of Leg Studios. The Konika Standing Lamp consists of a wire frame that is reminiscent of the construction of a lampshade. This frame holds the actual hanging lamp, which can be adjusted in height. It is an aesthetically pleasing and graphically interesting object that, like many contemporary South African objects, plays with fanciful geometric shapes formed from wire or thin steel rods coated in brilliant colours.
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SHELF LIGHT MINI ME NAWAAZ SALDULKER SOUTH AFRICA
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SHELF LIGHT MINI ME YEAR: 2014 DESIGNER: NAWAAZ SALDULKER PRODUCER: NAWAAZ SALDULKER
Nawaaz Saldulker is a young interior and product designer from Cape Town. The object Shelf Light Mini Me appears unremarkable at first glance: unsophisticated form, modest material content, aesthetically certainly welldesigned... At second glance one notices the small platform or shelf and then guess what is its purpose. It is there to display special things. The little treasures, the favourite knick-knacks, or the keys that one absolutely must not forget to take are literally in the spotlight.
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S I M O N S AY S TOTEM NAWAAZ SALDULKER SOUTH AFRICA
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S I M O N S AY S TOTEM YEAR: 2013 DESIGNER: NAWAAZ SALDULKER PRODUCER: NAWAAZ SALDULKER
Simon Says Totem was created by the designer Nawaaz Saldulker especially for the highly successful and internationally publicised exhibition Totemism: Memphis Meets Africa, curated by Lidewij Edelkoort. While designing this object, Nawaaz was strongly inspired by children, with their carefree nature and ability to give free rein to their creativity and to combine things without worrying about what other people think. Nawaaz emulated this mindset when he began stacking shapes, colours, and patterns to create a totemic sculptural object for the exhibition.
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FORBIDDEN FRUIT LIGHTS GLIMPT SOUTH AFRICA
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FORBIDDEN FRUIT LIGHTS YEAR: 2010 DESIGNER: GLIMP/MATTIAS RASK, TOR PALM PRODUCER: THE POTTER´S WORKSHOP
Chris Silverston is the founder of the Potter’s Workshop in Cape Town. At first, it was only Chris, but it grew slowly and steadily into a design studio that includes several female artists. Breaking with tradition, Chris gradually brought in Xhosa men whom she taught to paint ceramics, thus allowing them to cultivate their latent creative abilities. The distinctive tactile style developed by these artisans has become the trademark of the Potter’s Workshop. Their handcraft superiority lead to the cooperation with swedish duo Mattias Rask and Tor Palm, working together under the name Glimp, who designed The Forbidden Fruit Light. The
lamps mix simple forms with clear colors, cast a beautiful light and are hand painted by the brothers Ernest and Wendell at the Potter’s Workshop.
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KAN JUG, L A B VA S E , W I I D C O N TA I N E R WIID DESIGN SOUTH AFRICA
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KAN JUG, L A B VA S E , W I I D C O N TA I N E R YEAR: 2012/2013 DESIGNER: WIID DESIGN/LAURIE WIID VAN HEERDEN PRODUCER: WIID DESIGN
The lab vase, wiid container, and kan-jug displayed here are all by Wiid Design. As with the project Corkabitation that is being exhibited concurrently, the designer’s enjoyment of the aesthetic and tactile merits of cork as a material, which is eminently suited to the matte finish and the subdued colour palette of these all-round kitchen storage jars, is apparent. The sleek, well-designed shapes seem to glow with pride over their references to well-known stereotypes – a sentiment one would not necessarily expect from a jug or a cookie jar.
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