Introducing Africa’s Global Design festival, GUILD, a wave of Cape Town’s World Design Capital year (WDC 2014). The inaugural event unifies top leaders, artists, designers and speakers from national and international galleries. This event runs from Friday 28 February 2014 and will end on Sunday 9 March 2014. Story by Maxine Williams
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| Design Network Africa - Designer Joseph Nii Noi Douwuona |
This truly inspiring event will feature speakers, exhibitionists and attendees from over 17 different countries across Africa, United States of America, South America, Britain and Europe.
--Featured-Designer-For-Guild-2014.jpg "Nacho Carbonell (Holland): Featured Designer For Guild 2014") |
| Nacho Carbonell - working in Eindhoven, The Netherlands
‘I
like to see objects as living organisms, imagining them coming alive
and being able to surprise you
with their behaviour. I want to create
objects with my hands, then I can give them my personality.
I turn them
into communicative objects that can arouse one’s sensations and
imagination. in short,
what I want to create are objects with a
fictional or fantasy element, that allow you to escape everyday life.‘
- nacho carbonell
Exhibitors at the WDC2014 GUILD International Design Fair line-up.
• Nacho Carbonell (Holland): Featured Designer For Guild 2014 • Origins Centre (South Africa) • Southern Guild (South Africa) • Design Network Africa (Africa) • R 20th Century (New York) • Rossana Orlandi (Italy) • V&A Museum and the British Council (UK) • Coletivo Amor de Madre (Brazil) • Agents of the 3D Revolution (Global) |
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| Senegalese designer Babacar M'Bodj Niang- Design Network Africa |
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| GUILD Design Fair by joining a guided tour with fair director Trevyn McGowan. |
Co-founder
Trevyn McGowan -
"More than just a fair for beautiful objects, GUILD
represents the coming together of dedicated, focused curators, designers
and institutions who are striving to preserve and provoke unique,
groundbreaking design and have been advertising South Africa’s creative
and unique Arts and Culture for numerous years through the agency Source & Platform Southern Guild."
Don't miss David Wiseman's exquisitely crafted, nature-inspired pieces up close, courtesy of R & Company. On at The Lookout, Granger Bay, V & A Waterfront, open 11am to 8pm daily, and from 11am to 4pm on Sunday 9 March, closing day.Tickets R75. www.guilddesignfair.com
