Decorex Cape Town 2009: Delicate and Daring

Entering its 11th year, Decorex Cape Town brings you a unique blend of the emerging and the established, manufacturers and suppliers - large and small. Trade professionals and consumers can indulge in the haute and the handmade; the new simple and the avant-garde. The show promises to be a celebration of Cape Town's most delicate and daring spaces by talented style shapers, trend makers and décor creators.

Show highlights

In the Sanlam, thinking ahead with the next generation style shapers competition, Sanlam and Decorex SA track down a talented brigade of emerging young designers and decorators shaking up the norms. With the theme ‘Delicate and Daring' as their design cue, these style shapers play with a blank canvas and transform an empty shell to a ‘Home to the New'.

Each stand in the Sanlam Dream Rooms, a special salon devoted to dream interiors, is transformed into a fantasy setting of design elements and new ideas. This exquisite collection of high-end décor brands, lifestyle stores, fabric houses and interior decorators merges trends, palettes, materials and patterns with a contemporary edge. These inspirational concept stands bring new benchmarks in interior design, which can be translated freely in the visitor's own decorating style.

Life just got a lot sweeter for the café society with the introduction of Choc&Mocha, a chocolate and coffee salon designed by Nicola Townsend. Your choc and espresso shots are waiting for you in Sanlam Dream Rooms.

Handmade. Heartfelt. Each work in the South African Handmade Collection - whether it's a basket expertly woven from grass or plastic, a quirky recycled chandelier or a high-design ceramic gallery piece - represents a strategic step taken by its creator towards becoming a successful local entrepreneur and exporter.

As a brand The South African Handmade Collection represents the highest quality, design led, well manufactured, environmentally friendly South African craft products, conforming to fair trade practices. This definitive annual collection showcases our handmade products to the world: to international buyers, to the dynamic local trade and also to South Africans who welcome the handmade into their own homes with so much enthusiasm and pride.

Decorex SA lifts the lid on the hip and trendy colours for the year with the Plascon nature-inspired Colour Forecast for 2009. Never before have we been made so aware of nature's role in our lives and our part in it. The latest Plascon colour forecast is filled with colours that mimic the natural world around us and bring its life-giving energy into the home. This trend-setting collection introduces 32 new colours in four palettes within the natural theme: air, water, fire and earth.

In step with the show theme ‘New Fusion', the new SABC3 LifeStyle Theatre blends the best pastimes: cooking and designer - DIY. Get clued up with the latest in food fashion with star chefs and get the low-down on the hottest make-it-yourself projects.

Conversations on Architecture seminar

Decorex SA has great pleasure in announcing that hot design issues will be debated in Cape Town in 2009 as the highly popular Conversations on Architecture seminar take to the stage alongside the show. “Globally architecture is on everybody's lips; new iconic buildings are celebrated and architects have become the new rock stars of the design world,” says Cairey Slater, Decorex SA general manager. Due to the increasingly international nature of architecture, the COA-seminars will probe global design trends, while keeping a close eye on the local influences shaping people's lives and their living, working and playing environments. Leading South African architects and designers will be joined by two celebrated international key note speakers to share their views and visions.

Date: 24 April 2009, 10:00 - 15:00
Cost: R600.00 (including lunch and entrance to the exhibition)
Venue: CTICC, Cape Town

Decorex Cape Town

24 - 27 April 2009, Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town
Hours: 10am - 8pm (closes at 6pm on last day)
Admission: R50
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