Southern Guild show comes to Cape Town for first time

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It will display the best of the last three years of Southern Guild, with iconic work from 62 of the country's leading designers and artists.

Contributors include 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 and many others.

Each year, approximately 50 diverse talents are invited to produce new work and the collection includes pieces from established names, promising up and coming talents and design from the most prominent figures in South African art, craft, jewellery and architecture.

Deep relevance and authenticity

South African design is artisanal, handmade and cerebral and its designers work in a very personal, exploratory way, with deep relevance and authenticity and little interest in passing trends.

The guild encourages collaboration and discourse and aims to stimulate and provoke the design industry. It has become a benchmark for quality and originality and cohesively and comprehensively highlights the pinnacle of contemporary design in South Africa.

Trevyn and Julian McGowan of Source, an agency for the global sales of South African design, curated and directed it, partnered by ArcelorMittal South Africa.