South African Design: Past & Present

Timed Online Auction, 13 June - 9 July 2025

Cape Interiors: Furniture, Metalware, Silver & Glass
About the Session

This sale traces the heritage of South African design across centuries of creative expression highlighting diverse design objects through two sessions. Uniting the sessions is a celebration of the versatility of materials - metal, wood, glass, clay, fibre - and how artists and artisans have transformed them over time into works of wonder, rich in both tradition and innovation.

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  • A Cape stinkwood side table, late 18th century
  • A Cape stinkwood side table, late 18th century
  • A Cape stinkwood side table, late 18th century
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ZAR 10 000 - 12 000
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A Cape stinkwood side table, late 18th century the shaped two-plank rectangular top with canted corners above a shaped frieze, on square-section tapering fluted legs, 71,5cm high, 78cm wide, 55cm deep

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The discovery of the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum led to the revival of simplicity and classical form throughout Europe. This new Neo-classical style which was introduced to the Cape by French troops in the late 18th century, replaced the frivolity and exuberance of the Rococo style with clean straight lines.

Tables such as this one constructed entirely of stinkwood are relatively rare.

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