South African Design: Past & Present

Timed Online Auction, 13 June - 9 July 2025

Interior Elements: Wood, Metal, Fibre, Ceramic & Glass Art
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.


  • Joe Paine & Nathan Gates; 'Now Now' digital grandfather clock, South Africa, 21st Century
  • Joe Paine & Nathan Gates; 'Now Now' digital grandfather clock, South Africa, 21st Century
  • Joe Paine & Nathan Gates; 'Now Now' digital grandfather clock, South Africa, 21st Century
  • Joe Paine & Nathan Gates; 'Now Now' digital grandfather clock, South Africa, 21st Century


Lot Estimate
ZAR 60 000 - 70 000
Location
Cape Town
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South Africa
'Now Now' digital grandfather clock, South Africa, 21st Century
2022
201,5cm high, 40cm wide, 28cm deep

Notes

The 'Now Now' clock is a digital grandfather clock and repository for family information and memorabilia. This collaboration between Joe Paine and Nathan Gates formed part of the Future Heirlooms project by American Harwood Export Council, presented at Always Welcome in Johannesburg (2022) in collaboration with seven South African design studios working in American red oak. The material is not one commonly used in South Africa and the focus on Future Heirlooms drew inspiration from "ancient elements of Egyptian architecture and the coffered ceiling of the Roman Pantheon to reflect the Egyptian focus on death and the enduring nature of the Pantheon in the clock's design".

- Joe Paine, 2025

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