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.


  • A Cape brass coffee urn and konfoor, T.C. Falck, Roberston, 20th century
  • A Cape brass coffee urn and konfoor, T.C. Falck, Roberston, 20th century
  • A Cape brass coffee urn and konfoor, T.C. Falck, Roberston, 20th century


Lot Estimate
ZAR 7 000 - 9 000
Location
Cape Town
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Robertson, Western Cape, South Africa
A Cape brass coffee urn and konfoor, T.C. Falck, Roberston, 20th century

Notes

Thomas Falck was born in Robertson in 1898 and learnt the copper-smith's trade as an apprentice in the workshop of F.J. Staal.

Konfoors each had their own patterns and decorative piercings which served as ventilation and were characteristic of a specific maker. Inside the konfoor, is a spherical 'tessie' which was the receptacle for the live coals.

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