South African Design: Past & Present
Timed Online Auction, 13 June - 9 July 2025
Cape Interiors: Furniture, Metalware, Silver & Glass
About the SessionThis 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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These spoons were sold to fund the monument's construction, which cost £350,000. Designed by renowned South African artist WH. Coetzer, the original design is housed at MuseumAfrica in Johannesburg. Coetzer also designed the 1938 Great Trek commemorative postage stamps, as well as the Voortrekker Monument's marble friezes and tapestries, completed in 1948.