At the Design Indaba Expo, which opens to the public on Friday, Cape Town furniture designer Haldane Martin will be introducing his brand new Baba Papa lounger.
Haldane says that his ergonomically shaped lounger is inspired by smooth water-worn pebbles . The lightweight structure is made from 80% recycled stainless [...]
It’s nearly Back to School time, where style-conscious pupils can beat the deskbound blues by dreaming up re-interpretations of classroom classics, just like this modern interpretation of an elementary school chair.
The School Chair by Gus* Design Group is an made from bent ply on a powder coated steel frame (via Dwell).
Now, how to [...]
This week, our From the Team feature has editorial assistant Julie Kenney sharing some of her top picks for the week:
I’m kept pretty busy over here at the DECO offices, so I don’t have much time to surf the net. Fortunately, my sister Lana Kenney loves to blog, and so I get my daily dose [...]
Last week I stopped off at brand new coffee shop and deli, Superette, which is situated in the somewhat unlikely badlands of Salt River, Cape Town. Albert Road is a fast-paced, furiously-volumed street of sweatshops, boatyards, backyard mechanics and grimy-windowed half-empty general stores, but all this rough stuff fell away the minute I stepped [...]
With a home page image like this one, you know that Bebop Antik is no run-of -the-mill vintage store.
This store, based in Göteborg, Sweden, specialises in Scandinavian design between 1920 and the 1970s. Their store is full of treasures, both those by famous names like Wegner, Mogensen, Jacobsen and Juhl, but also lesser-known work that’s [...]
