We love local design, so couldn’t help going ooh and ahh for what we found on Utique.co.za – a great little online destination for South African handmade items with personality.
Comment on this post and say which of these designs you’d most love to win and why – and you could get lucky.
Jan Pierewiet mint green enamel plate by Tjou Tjou. Made in Cape Town.
Enamel ‘Jan Pierewiet’ plates for your wall or any display area.
These classic lightweight enamel plates (about 22cm diameter) look stunning in a kitchen or braai area.
Cutlery Napkins by yumyum. Made in Cape Town.
Set of 2 Cutlery Napkins on 100% white cotton twill.
Matching Tea Towel available (34 x 46cm).
Farm Apron by Nest Homegrown (80cm X 90cm). Made in Durban
Add a sprinkling of whimsy to your look while cooking, baking or braaing and protect your clothes from splats and smears. Made from Mungo cotton/linen blend fabric.
Kewpie Doll Bookends by Nest Homegrown. Made in Durban.
A range of quirky cuties to stop your books from tumbling over. The retro kewpie doll design is perfect for any little – or grown-up – girl’s bedroom, and is right on trend. (20cm x13cm)
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Top image by Mangus Anesund for Elle Interior
Irving Harper: from industrial designer to paper sculptor
I ADORE the Farm Apron! Would love to win it because it reminds me of Animal Farm – one of my favourite books, and it’s printed in green – my all-time favourite colour!
Kewpie doll bookends!! So quirky and fun. Would look wonderful holding up my recipe books in the kitchen
The Jan Pierewiet plate has stolen my heart, It just screams proudly SA, in an oh so cool vintage kinda way……
The set of 2 Cutlery Napkins on 100% white cotton twill – I will use them to create a special atmosphere for the next dinner party specially for the two of us. I will combine them with two differently patterned white tablecloths for a stunning effect. The Cutlery napkins will complete the opulent setting.
Fantastic stuff, i am totally inlove with the Cutlery Napkins by yumyum. It really is… Yum Yum!
I would love the cutlery napkins – we have a beautiful set of engraved antique napkin rings, but no napkins to put in them! These would be perfect.
Love the Kewpie doll bookends!
I would love to win the cutlery napkins, I love the design.
Ooh! Definitely the Kewpie doll bookends
Love the Kwepie Doll Bookends! They are super-cute!
The Jan Pierewiet plates; I think are a picnic/braai must have – cool retro, local, lekka & practical! I love them.
I think the Kewpie Doll Bookends are cute and very handy!
aaah, do i have to pick just one, i want them ALL!
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Kewpie doll bookends for my inner child AND i so love reading!
I love the White Kewpie Doll Bookends…& lots of other things too!
Pierewieter plate. I love the new upcycling and recycling trend and this plate fits the profile.
Fab. Love the old-fashioned look of the Cutlery Napkins by yumyum.
Cheers,
la ninja
Love Tjou tjou’s plate! The colour is stunning x
The Kewpie Doll Bookends are just too cute! Love them. Will be great on our bookshelf.
OH MY WORD, the Kewpie Doll Bookends are the sweetest things I’ve ever seen. I have more books than shoes (and that’s saying something!) and would love to stack them in between these beautiful designs.
Kewpie Doll Bookends – my cookbooks are all hidden away in a cupboard – with these I could display them beautifully in my new kitchen
LOVE it all!! but if I had to choose the Kewpie Dolls are just too precious. I love playful accessories.
I absolutely love the apron because it reminds me so much of my childhood growing up on a farm. It reminds me of my Mom cooking in the kitchen and of myself milking the cows the old fashioned way.
Absolutely love the Kewpie dolls book-ends and my daughters will go crazy about them too!
The Kewpie Doll Bookends by Nest Homegrown are stunning. They remind me of my childhood dollies and I’d love to use them in my future daughter’s room, so she can also forge great memories.
Love the Kewpie doll bookends! So cute and fun
the Cutlery Napkins are unique…
Jan Pierewiet mint green enamel plate, because it’s so…from way back
I would love to win the Cutlery Napkins, because I think they could become the talking point at a meal.
I wouldn’t mind winning the Jan Pierewiet mint green enamel plate, because it brings back memories – good ones – of our camping days, as a kid.
I would love to win the Kewpie Doll Bookends : because my girlfriend will simply be over the moon about them…
I love the apron, im always in the kitchen baking and cooking with my kiddies and a really cute apron would make my day
Those Kewpie Doll bookends, not only will I grin with the anticipation of my next choice of read…….. These little friendly whimsical girls taking care of my precious books will turn my smile even wider.
The table napkins are so different. I love them.
I love the enamel plates (Jan Pierewiet)! Very cool! Utique is pretty awesome too – great place for items often only found after a shopping ‘hunt’!
The Cutlery Napkins by yumyum! They are absolutely exquisite, and would make a lovely gift for my partner.
I really like the Napkins! They would look zhoosh on my dining-room table when it’s all set up for entertaining.
They are all so awesome, makes it difficult to select. Think I’ll go with the Cutlery Napkins, because it’s a practical choice. Of all the items, I think they would be best used in our house.
would love to win the Kewpie doll bookends, they would look so cute in my kids room holding up all their books and the little heart would remind them how much i love them
Would love the apron PLEASE.