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Five Cape Town designers exhibited under the Italian Misael label during the Milan Furniture Fair.
Leora Lewis, Lyall Sprong, Rebecca Townsend, Andile Dyalvane and Heath Nash constitute the South African contingent of Misael's new project orientated towards design from the edges of the globalised market. The brainchild of Italian entrepreneurs Michael Haerens and Isable Qain, and project coordinator Monica Gentini, Misael is about limited edition products that embody their creator's passion for freshness, originality, handicraft and technology.
Old hands, Nash and Dyalvane showed their trademark recycled plastic lamps and ceramics treated with scarification, respectively. In turn, ceramicist Leora Lewis created a bowl with two feet in it, as if waiting to be washed, and glass artist Rebecca Townsend allowed herself to be inspired by throw-away domestic objects. Relative newcomer, Sprong exhibited his physics-defying Euco Bench and Alexander's Solution table.
Currently constituting 50% of the Misael project, the South African component was curated by Leonard Shapiro of CraftSouthAfrica.
Five Cape Town designers exhibited under the Italian Misael label during the Milan Furniture Fair.
Leora Lewis, Lyall Sprong, Rebecca Townsend, Andile Dyalvane and Heath Nash constitute the South African contingent of Misael's new project orientated towards design from the edges of the globalised market. The brainchild of Italian entrepreneurs Michael Haerens and Isable Qain, and project coordinator Monica Gentini, Misael is about limited edition products that embody their creator's passion for freshness, originality, handicraft and technology.
Old hands, Nash and Dyalvane showed their trademark recycled plastic lamps and ceramics treated with scarification, respectively. In turn, ceramicist Leora Lewis created a bowl with two feet in it, as if waiting to be washed, and glass artist Rebecca Townsend allowed herself to be inspired by throw-away domestic objects. Relative newcomer, Sprong exhibited his physics-defying Euco Bench and Alexander's Solution table.
Currently constituting 50% of the Misael project, the South African component was curated by Leonard Shapiro of CraftSouthAfrica.
