| Spring Fever |
Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party! - Robin Williams’
Budding plum trees and the heady smell of jasmine mark the onset of fresh, new beginnings. It’s Spring - and time to purge your home. There’s something so deeply appealing about aired cupboards and closets, spruced-up spaces and the home’s winter woolies snugly packed away.
In this issue we give you Decorex’s top trend pickings, introduce you to fresh-faced new kids on the block, applaud the rebirth of African design and indigo, and lift the lid on the continued love-affair with green.
 Picture courtesy of Vogue Entertaining |
FLOWERS STEPPING OUT OF LINE |
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Give flowers some freedom this season. Decorex loves the new
floral mood described in a recent Vogue Entertaining. Long gone
are the formal arrangements dominating the centre of the table.
This season it’s all about freestyle flowers allowed to misbehave.
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 The new green consciousness reflects in watery new hues with the calmness of the sea and colours of clear, untainted water. (pic Plascon Colour forecast 2009.) |
GREEN IN FULL BLOOM |
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Colour turns over a new eco leaf with the launch of the nature-inspired Plascon Colour Forecast for 2009. “Green is the new mainstream,” says Anne Roselt, colour manager of Plascon. “Never before have we been made so aware of nature’s role in our lives and our part in it.”
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 LIV Design’s debut range of eco-products: sustainable beauty |
GREEN LIV HATCHED |
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Every item at our Decorex stall was created by hand, with love in under 4 weeks. Every artist has become a friend. Every product has a story, a family, a history and a job behind it. To us this is sustainability.
Carrying the torch for inventive re-use were interior and sustainable designer Danielle Ehrlich and industrial designer Ewaldi Grové of the newly hatched LIV Design. These two self-proclaimed ‘middle class princesses’ exhibited their debut range of eco-products, in association with the green flooring company Edge 9. Their eco-approach lead to sustainable, beautiful products ranging from the Roly-Poly chair and zip-up felt lamp shades to playful Eco-Baroque pieces: ‘ball and claw’ cabinets made from wire and ‘spare parts’ of second hand furniture. The inspirational story of LIV, the newly hatched enterprise started when Danielle and Ewaldi were invited six weeks before the show to speak at Decorex’s Conversations on Architecture. The topic was sustainable design. The result is a company - conceived, conceptualized and created in the month of July – winning a gold award for their stunningly quirky stand, filled with do-good design. Read More .... |
 Design Africa's inventive artists reinterpret heritage through a contemporary lens. (Pic credit Design Africa). |
RENAISSANCE OF AFRICAN DESIGN |
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Connecting with Africa is the big trend, as new directions point to a hot new destination: our continent! Decorex this year saw a massive increase of designs representing the African continent, compared to the past when imports from Europe were all the rage. Leading the trend is Design Africa – which won the coveted Decorex
Joburg Best Stand Award for its contemporary style with soul.
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 Imiso's ceramic art is inspired by Xhosa heritage |
NEW KIDS ON THE DESIGN BLOCK |
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Imiso Ceramics: In a dynamic atelier at the foot of Table |Mountain, award-winning designer Andile Dyalvane and his team create Imiso ceramic art. Their reinterpretation of traditional objects, such as Xhosa milk pails and Nguni bowls, are both provocatively beautiful and contemporary.
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 By Dezign’s award winning stand |
SOFT GOTH SHAPES STYLE |
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There is no doubt that fashion trends have a strong influence on interior design. One of the latest trends emerging from the major international fashion houses is “Soft-Goth”. A dark, glamorous bedroom interpreting this trend won By Dezign Interiors the Sanlam/Visi Style Shapers Award at Decorex Joburg.
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 Indigo is a blue beckoning to dive right in. Designer: Aboubakar Fofana at Design Africa stand. |
IN LOVE WITH INDIGO |
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“There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.” The words of the French novelist Colette can just as well describe Aboubakar Fofana’s intense passion for the ultimate of blues: indigo.
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 Best Stand awards: a fantasy of colours in a roomscape by Khaya design |
SHOW STOPPERS - DECOREX JOBURG BEST STAND AWARDS |
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At the award ceremony Cairey Slater, general manager exhibitions, noted that the excesses of the 1980s and the style-first approach of the 1990s have been replaced by the era of emotion-in-design:
“What people want now is to make emotional connections and to be surrounded by things that mean something. More than ever we want to be comforted by beauty, by quality, great craftsmanship and eco-conscious design. The successful exhibitor understands that we live in the Age of Aesthetics, and that good design transforms both culture and economy. The winners offer that x-factor that draws us in on an emotional level, turning a blank canvas and empty stand spaces into something distinctive that made the heart beat faster.” Read More .... |
 Sout African Handmade Collection IKON Esther Mahlangu |
TREND: LIVING WITH THE HANDMADE |
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The handmade is the mother tongue of a new South African design language, blending the urban with the organic, the neo with the natural, and the sophisticated with the rustic. The rich diversity of crafters fills the country’s national treasure trove with heartfelt traditional pieces, witty objects and highly collectable once-off creations.
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DATES FOR YOU DÉCOR DIARY |
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DECOREX CAPE TOWN
Celebrating ten years in the city of design chic with a never-seen-before line-up of interactive projects. Record-breaking five-time winner of EXSA Award as the country’s best exhibition of its kind. 25 - 28 April 2008 Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town www.decorex.co.za DECOREX JOBURG Southern Africa’s foremost showcase of sheer excellence. Decorex Johannesburg debuts the exciting, challenging - sometimes contradictory trends - shaping the future. 30 July - 03 August 2008 Gallagher Estate, Midrand www.decorex.co.za |
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