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Eclectic interiors

Design News • 3 Aug 14 • Sponsored Content

Studio Makkink & Bey combines antiques and contemporary design to transform a 17th-century French hotel into a university research centre. >
SA's top buildings

Lookbook • 2 Aug 14 • Sponsored Content

Presenting this year's winners of the South Africa Institute of Architecture's awards celebrating architectural excellence in the country. >
Whisper chandelier by High Thorn

Product Spotlight • 31 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

High Thorn's latest lighting design is a cascade of leather evoking a laidback sense of luxury. >
Lookbook: Marianne Fassler's Resort 2015 collection

Lookbook • 28 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

South Africa's favourite iconoclastic fashion designer unleashes a riot of colour and pattern at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Cape Town. >
Orbit coffee table by Stratflex

Product Spotlight • 26 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

The Stratflex family of furniture grows with the addition of this cleverly designed flat-pack table. >
Instomi metal sideboard by Meyer von Wielligh

Product Spotlight • 24 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Meyer von Wielligh contrasts smooth metal with aged wood in the latest addition to its signature range. >
The smell of London

Design News • 22 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Tom Dixon is bringing the scent of London to Paris with a major installation showcasing the making of his new fragrance. >
Kettal Mesh by Patricia Urquiola

Product Spotlight • 21 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Patricia Urquiola contrasts the texture of expanded metal mesh with the solidity of wood and marble in her latest collection of outdoor furniture for Kettal. >
Food for thought

Design News • 20 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Honey & Bunny's new book, "Eat Design", documents everyday objects such as cutlery that affect not only our food but our actions and lifestyles. >
Tuffy by Konstantin Grcic

Product Spotlight • 19 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Konstantin Grcic's Wild Bunch collection of furniture for Magis gets a new addition. >
Face value

Design News • 18 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

This Mandela Day, we pay tribute to our home-grown hero with Garth Walker's cover design for the 29th issue of "ijusi" magazine. >
Flip and Sketch by Ryan Frank

Product Spotlight • 17 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Ryan Frank's eco-sleeve design brand TAPEGear falls for flax. >
Finger ballet

Design News • 15 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Pentagram's Abbott Miller has designed an app that allows users to choreograph their own ballet sequences. >
Lookbook: Rebranding Rwanda

Lookbook • 14 Jul 14

George Pericles Creative Think-Tank proposes a visual identity for Rwanda's provinces based on traditional patterns. >
A Kenyan conundrum

Design News • 14 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Kenya’s first pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale – a giant missed opportunity? >
Woven vessels by Design Afrika

Product Spotlight • 12 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Unusual material combinations give these traditional woven vessels a contemporary twist. >
Gathered together

Design News • 11 Jul 14

Lidewij Edelkoort's latest exhibition at the Design Museum Holon in Israel explores the seam of craft and design. >
Braaitjie by Dieter Zermatten

Product Spotlight • 10 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

A pint-sized ‘braai’ hopes to reinvent South Africa’s obsession with barbecuing meat outdoors. >
Lookbook: Over the Rainbow

Lookbook • 9 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

A new exhibition in France shows Scholten & Baijings's creative portfolio from the past 14 years. >
A desert in Venice

Design News • 9 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Morocco's first-ever pavilion at the Venice Biennale explores the country's experimental approach to 'desert architecture'. >
Lookbook: Department of Design

Lookbook • 7 Jul 14

We look at Droog's design of a pop-up pavilion to foster Dutch-South African collaboration for Cape Town's reign as 2014 World Design Capital. >
Blocks and Grid by Scholten & Baijings

Product Spotlight • 5 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Scholten & Baijings latest fabric collection reinterprets colour blocking as an exercise in subtle colour gradations. >
Lookbook: Word Cup

Lookbook • 3 Jul 14

Facebook communication designer and football fanatic Ji Lee creates a league of his own with his Word Cup challenge. >
News: Exemplary colours

Design News • 2 Jul 14

Colour maven Hella Jongerius gets outs her paintbrush for a group exhibition celebrating MAK's 150th anniversary. >

From the Archives

Pavilions on a pedestal

Design News • 17 Apr 22

Architectural pavilions can take creativity to the next level – but what makes a pavilion truly great? >
The sound of silence

Design News • 17 Apr 22

Two Dutch designers create 'silent rooms' where care-home inhabitants can process the experience of loss >
A virtual leap for the lab

Q&A • 17 Apr 22

Self-taught game developer Mbangiso Mabaso employs augmented and virtual reality to enliven the science lab for learners >
Art across time

Design News • 17 Apr 22

Chinese-Australian artist Renee So’s exhibition at the CAMPLE LINE gallery in rural Scotland explores history in multiple forms >

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