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This week Africa sees its very first international design fair, launched in Cape Town. Called GUILD, the fair officially kicks off the World Design Capital 2014 event, and has brought handmade, limited-edition collectable designs from Africa, the US, South America, Britain and Europe together to be displayed in one carefully curated space.
The works exhibited explore the theme of “making” at an elevated, collectible level. Trevyn McGowan, founder and director of Southern Guild explains: “The inaugural GUILD will see pioneering, handcrafted design pieces return to the birthplace of the ‘man-made object’, Africa, exhibited alongside the earliest artefacts produced a hundred thousand years ago. From man’s involvement in ‘making’ at its most basic, instinctive and original form, to objects created using leading-edge technological processes, GUILD will explore inspired work, at the intersection between design, craft and art. Rather than just a commercial platform, this is also an academic and institution-led examination of what is important to us as a society and understanding the most essential forms of human expression on a functional level.”
Pieces from global galleries on show include – New York’s R 20th Century; Milan’s Rossana Orlandi; and Brazilian/Colombian collective, Coletivo Amor de Madre. Also on display are some of the extraordinary and groundbreaking design objects by renowned creative, Nacho Carbonell.
VISIT:
- GUILD Design Fair was launched on February 28 and will be running until March 9 2014 at the The Lookout in Granger Bay, V&A Waterfront. For more information visit www.guilddesignfair.com.
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