11 stores · curated ORBIS register
Megan Hesse and Andrea Kleinloog founded Anatomy Design in Johannesburg in 2010, designing locally manufactured furniture and home objects. LIM was established by Pauline Mutlow in 1997, with its furniture handcrafted in the Western Cape. Cape Town designer Haldane makes sculptural seating and outdoor furniture, with colourful pieces presented through the studio's showroom. Its Zulu Mama chair combines wire with recycled plastic, giving one named design a specific material construction.
7 Hudson Street, De Waterkant, Cape Town, South Africa / Cape Town / South Africa
Founded Johannesburg 2010 by Megan Hesse and Andrea Kleinloog; Lab Light named Most Beautiful Object in South Africa at Design Indaba 2010 (official about, corroborated by Cape Town Furniture Week: locally manufactured furniture since 2010).
Best for Locally manufactured furniture from a Johannesburg studio founded in 2010.
Cape Town
The showroom at 99 Harrington Street, East City, Cape Town designs and manufactures furniture, lighting, mirrors, and mohair rugs and blankets, handmade in Cape Town. Its current CICADA collection uses cast aluminum, steel and metal alloys, and pieces such as the Bahla Chair and Sun Singer Chair incorporate beaten brass, beaten aluminium and hand-rolled copper.
Best for Handmade furniture and mohair textiles
1 Calcutta Street, Paarden Eiland, Cape Town, South Africa / Cape Town / South Africa
VISI visited the Paarden Eiland factory and showroom and dates the studio to nearly two decades of handmade solid-wood furniture. Inside Guide: since 2006; traditional cabinet-making in sustainable hardwoods; showroom attached to the factory.
Best for Handmade solid-wood furniture from a Paarden Eiland factory and showroom.
86 Kloof Street, Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa / Cape Town / South Africa
Founded March 1997 by Pauline Mutlow; furniture handcrafted in the Western Cape (What's On in Cape Town).
Best for Western Cape handcrafted furniture from a studio founded in 1997.
24 Napier Street, De Waterkant, Cape Town, South Africa / Cape Town / South Africa
Founded 2008 in Cape Town by industrial designers Luke Pedersen and James Lennard; all pieces designed and manufactured under one roof in Cape Town (Dwell; Startup Mag 2024).
Best for Cape Town furniture designed and manufactured under one roof.
Cape Town
Vintage Club is an online vintage furniture business in Cape Town's South Peninsula run by a husband-and-wife team of collectors, selling high-end vintage and collectible furniture from the 1940s to 1970s including mid-century modern and Scandinavian pieces. They clean, lightly restore and refinish each piece, and visits to the workshop are by appointment only.
Best for Restored mid-century vintage furniture
City Bowl
Ashanti Design makes lighting, furniture and homeware wrapped in hand-crocheted fabric cord, woven leather and reclaimed materials in bright African-inspired palettes. Pieces are assembled by a Cape Town team, with pendant shades and beanbags among the signatures.
Best for African-inspired lighting and homeware
City Centre
Furniture designer Haldane Martin builds colourful, sculptural seating and outdoor pieces, including the wire-and-recycled-plastic Zulu Mama chair that put the studio on the map. The Cape Town showroom presents collections rooted in South African materials and bold colour.
Best for Designer furniture
Knysna Industrial, Western Cape, South Africa
Johan Nel's workshop on Waenhout Avenue has built custom solid-wood tables, cabinets, staircases and kitchens for over 40 years, alongside decorative woodcraft pieces such as replica hobbit doors. Commissions have included rustic furniture for the Featherbed restaurant and a presentation box for the Miss Universe 2017 national gift.
Best for Custom solid-wood furniture and joinery
Sea Point / Online
Poetry combines clothing with furniture, tableware, lighting and art, so the Sea Point floor reads as a lifestyle store rather than a fashion boutique. Seasonal collections move between wearable pieces and room-scale objects.
Best for Fashion, homeware, furniture, art and selected design goods
Silo District, V&A Waterfront
Southern Guild shows collectible furniture, ceramics and sculpture in a double-volume gallery in the Silo District, rotating through work by Andile Dyalvane, Zizipho Poswa and others. Functional design treated as fine art.
Best for Collectible African design
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