Locally designed and manufactured furniture and lighting does not come cheap, but it is a once-off investment which you will recoup through great work inspired by your awesome local furniture.
RAW studios manufactures modular shelves, drawers, boxes and steel locker look-alike furniture from birch plywood. Their klik and ikonik ranges have clean, no-nonsense lines and can be arranged and re-arranged to exactly fit your needs. All are made in Pretoria.
Cape Town-based Pedersen + Lennard manufacture the ‘Jozi shelf’, which wouldn’t look out of place in a Swedish furniture catalogue – geographically confusing, but pretty. They also offer a large range of other storage solutions.
Graeme Bettles Design sells desk lights that look like a modern-day Pinocchio wearing a lampshade. The lamp can sit or stand and dangle its feet from a shelf.FOSS makes mobile shelving units. They also offer inspirational cupboards and other furniture.
ByMyShelf sells nifty sets of modular shelves which slot together into one big shelf or several smaller units. The shelves are made in Knysna from locally supplied plywood with a saligna finish or can be made from pine plywood.
To add some colour to your desk and storage solutions, check out BRAK furniture. They manufacture in Johannesburg.
Also made in Johannesburg, Inhabit offers a wide variety of shelves from untreated pine to stained and painted shelves.
Dokter and Misses makes, among other things, lamps, tables, shelving and cupboards of the decorative kind.Eco Furniture Design manufactures swish-looking wooden desks and filing cabinets from reclaimed and sustainable timber.
Mr. Fox are two young Durban-based furniture designers who create simple and cool looking white oak furniture, desks, shelves as well as great desk lamps.
Jasper Eales, among other cool things, makes wood and metal shelves and desks which slot together without screws or glue. This makes them look weight- and seamless and extremely functional for those on the move.
If you look for large-scale filing and storage solutions (think walls of shelves and cabinets), Zippel manufactures a range of products. If they are good enough for government departments, they should be good enough for you.
