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100% Design Africa Discover the best in contemporary design at Africa's largest curated design platform

30 July – 02 August, Sandton Convention Centre

100% Design Africa is far more than just an exhibition. As Africa’s only international design show, 100% Design Africa is the launchpad that the industry needs to enter onto the global stage. Through the spirit of exchange, this hybrid trade event brings key members of the interior industry together, showcasing all manner of contemporary designs from across the continent – from furniture and product design to specialised areas like art, literature, and crafts. As a phygital platform, 100% Design Africa combines the power of physical exhibition space and events, with the power of digital storytelling, enabling innovative ideas to be showcased in new and exciting ways. Through the use of technology, we’re able to make the trade fair a more dynamic and interactive space, with greater reach and relevance than ever before.

Two new Joburg stores to put on your list.At Nelson Mandela Square, Poetry’s new lifestyle concept store brings furnitur...
22/10/2026

Two new Joburg stores to put on your list.

At Nelson Mandela Square, Poetry’s new lifestyle concept store brings furniture, homeware and fashion together in its most complete expression of the brand yet.

And in Parkhurst, Pedersen + Lennard has opened its first Joburg store, bringing its Cape Town-made furniture and homeware to Sixth Street.

Two very different spaces, and two good reasons to make time for a proper look around. Poetry Stores Pedersen+Lennard

What if the future of Johannesburg could be built from more of what’s already here?MILarchi Architects is an exciting lo...
22/10/2026

What if the future of Johannesburg could be built from more of what’s already here?

MILarchi Architects is an exciting local practice exploring that possibility at Nine Yards in Rosebank, where nine neighbouring residential properties have been transformed into a connected precinct of restaurants, shops, galleries and gardens.

Their approach centres on 'adaptive reuse': giving existing buildings a new purpose while retaining the qualities that make them special. A house might become a shop or restaurant, with its original structure and character shaping what comes next.

At Nine Yards, that thinking extends across the site. Buildings were repaired and adapted, salvaged bricks and roof tiles found new uses, and mature trees helped determine where new spaces would take shape.

As Johannesburg continues to change, Milarchi's work at Nine Yards offers a compelling example of how architecture can reshape the city while carrying its history forward.

Swipe through to explore the project.

What happens when a love of South African design becomes a series of imagined interiors?For Kgomotso Monnakgotla, Weekly...
20/10/2026

What happens when a love of South African design becomes a series of imagined interiors?

For Kgomotso Monnakgotla, Weekly ObjeKtz began as a way to explore rooms that felt completely, unapologetically personal. Bringing together real pieces of local furniture, art, lighting and objects, the series has since become a space for discovery, connection and potential collaboration.

For Kgomotso each interior starts with collecting, curating and composing. AI enters at the final visualisation stage, helping bring an already developed design into view.

We asked about the ideas behind the series, what gives these spaces their South African character, and which room might make the leap into real life.

Swipe through the interiors and our conversation. Which would you most like to see built?

What happens to light when it meets clay?At *Aether Commons: Refracted Cosmologies* in Warsaw, work by Andile Dyalvane ...
15/10/2026

What happens to light when it meets clay?

At *Aether Commons: Refracted Cosmologies* in Warsaw, work by Andile Dyalvane and Zizipho Poswa joins an exhibition that looks at light through painting, sculpture and installation.

Dyalvane’s *Ngcip-ngciphu* and *Incindi* and Poswa’s *uMameKhaya* bring their distinct ways of working with clay into a conversation that stretches well beyond illumination.

Curated by Azu Nwagbogu at the Fundacja Stefana Gierowskiego, the exhibition runs until 18 October. Southern Guild

African craft had many voices at Homo Faber in Venice this year.Ronel Jordaan Textiles felted forms sat alongside basket...
13/10/2026

African craft had many voices at Homo Faber in Venice this year.

Ronel Jordaan Textiles felted forms sat alongside basketry by Angeline Masuku, woodwork from Favourite Design Studio in Eswatini, weaving by Madagascar’s Made For a Woman, bronze sculpture by Hamado Zoundi and textile work by Princia Matungulu.

They're just a few of the makers from across the continent whose work appeared in the 2026 exhibition. A celebration of different materials and traditions, each opening up its own way of seeing what a skilled hand can do.

Swipe through for a look back on the names from the continent that shone at what was another incredible celebration of global craft's most beautiful platform.

Later this month, Pan Afrikan Design Week comes to Cape Town with a question we should all be asking: how do we design t...
13/10/2026

Later this month, Pan Afrikan Design Week comes to Cape Town with a question we should all be asking: how do we design to thrive?

From 21–24 October, designers, educators, cultural practitioners and people working across other fields will gather at the V&A Waterfront to talk about the conditions we create for people, communities and places across the continent.

The programme moves from Afrikan futures and cultural identity to the wider effects of design decisions, and the skills we’ll need next.

Convened by the Pan Afrikan Design Institute with Open Design Afrika as local host. Find the full programme and tickets through

What does luxury look like when a place takes its cues from the landscape, the city around it, or the people who make it...
08/10/2026

What does luxury look like when a place takes its cues from the landscape, the city around it, or the people who make it?

These six new and newly reimagined stays take us from The Pinnacle Kigali and Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts Rabat to the Wilderness Mara, JW Marriott Mount Kenya Rhino Reserve Safari Camp, the Anantara Tented Camp Kafue River and Lake Kivu . Each has a different answer, and each gives us something to look at beyond the view.

Here are six African stays on our design radar.

06/10/2026

For Sarah Langa, this year’s Decorex Africa theme, The Soft Life, was more than an opportunity to explore design. Creating her debut stand at Decorex Joburg became a way to explore the idea of ‘softness’ itself, reflecting on her past and identity as she shapes the future of Sarah Langa Interiors.

Watch Sarah share the story behind her stand, and go deeper into the thinking, stories and ideas shaping African design on Decorex Academy.

Decorex Academy is your year-round connection to the people, perspectives and conversations shaping design. Subscribe at the link in our bio and keep learning beyond the show.

We first spent time with INDALO: Crafted in Eswatini at 100% Design Africa in Joburg, then came across the collective’s ...
06/10/2026

We first spent time with INDALO: Crafted in Eswatini at 100% Design Africa in Joburg, then came across the collective’s work again in Paris.

There’s a wonderful range to it: woven grass and sisal alongside ceramics, soapstone and objects for the home. Across the collection, familiar materials and skilled craft take on new forms through collaborations between Eswatini makers and designers.

The work brought Favourite Swaziland, MasterArtworks, Siyaphambili, Tintsaba and Welcome Mashaba to the floor in Joburg. Seeing it again in Paris was a lovely reminder of how far these makers’ work is travelling.

Swipe through for a closer look.

02/10/2026

There was a detail at 100% Design Africa that you could only see from above.

The 100% Iconic, Ten x Ten, and Local Pavilion stands came together this year to form the 100% Design logo. Three separate exhibitions made up of individual spaces, with one larger idea connecting them.

100% Design is all about the birds-eye view of design right now, a celebration of the big picture.

Here’s the view we’ve been waiting to show you.

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Tuesday 07:00 - 16:00
Wednesday 07:00 - 16:00
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