10 Mar Spotted at Guild Design Fair 2014

Adele Dejak

This year, in celebration of World Design Capital 2014, Guild exhibited in Cape Town for the very first time, where local and international high-end design products from Africa, the US, South America, Britain and Europe were showcased at V & A Waterfront. All the products exhibited were hand-crafted in limited editions or once-offs, all of them exploring this year’s Guild theme: ‘Making’.

Participating designers included Gregor Jenkin, Haldane Martin, Dylan Lewis, Heath Nash, John Vogel, Bronze Age, Conrad Botes, Brett Murray, James Mudge, Lyall Sprong, Porky Heffer, Ceramic Matters, Nic Bladen, Pedersen and Lennard, Angus Taylor, Guy DuToit, Wayne Barker, Life, Ronel Jordaan, Koop, Dahla Hume, House on Fire, Dokter and Misses, Laduma Ngxokolo, among many others.

“We choose people whose work engages the viewer, breaks new ground, shakes things up a bit” say Trevyn and Julian McGowan, curators of Southern Guild, who also founded Guild.

Here are some of the items and designers that caught our eye at this year’s Guild Design Fair.

Head to guilddesignfair.com for more.

Dokter and Misses – Kassena Server, Slate

Front and the Siyazama Project – Story Vases

Imiso Ceramics

Heath Nash and Anselm Kitengela

The Haas Brothers

Heath Nash and Kitengela

The Haas Brothers

The Haas Brothers

Conrad Hicks

Shauna Richardson

Alon Meron

Alon Meron

Friday Jibu – Gule Wamkulu Dancers

Charles Haupt from Bronze Age Art Foundry

John Vogel – Bloom

The Haas Brothers – Hex Stool

Dokter and Misses

Dokter and Misses

Atang Tshikare

Atang Tshikare

Lionel T Dean

Lionel T Dean

Michaella Janse van Vuuren – Horse Marionette

Handspring Puppet Company – War Horse

Coletivo Amor De Madre

Coletivo Amor De Madre

Nervous System – Colony Trio

David Wiseman

David Wiseman

The Haas Brothers – Unique Debbie Hairy, Dromedary

The Haas Brothers

Rossana Orlandi – Uufie Chair

Rossana Orlandi – Uufie Chair

Babacar Niang – Marabantou

Cheick Diallo

Nacho Carbonell

Nacho Carbonell

Spazio Rossana Orlandi