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 harlequin set of ten Cape stinkwood Neo-classical side chairs, late 18th/early 19th century
  • A harlequin set of ten Cape stinkwood Neo-classical side chairs, late 18th/early 19th century
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ZAR 70 000 - 90 000
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ZAR 46 900

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A harlequin set of ten Cape stinkwood Neo-classical side chairs, late 18th/early 19th century

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The slender and elegant fiddle-back chairs closely followed similar Dutch Neo-classical designs of the period. They were fashionable and made in relatively large numbers from the end of the eighteenth century into the early nineteenth century.

This set represents a few of the more than 30 splat variations used, the most popular configuration being four splats with three gaps.

This set is also made up of a combination of cane and riempies, which was the preferred seat at the Cape, usually with a loose cushion added for comfort.

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