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R1.4 billion Ballito Junction development gets green light
The groundbreaking R1.4 billion Ballito
Junction regional shopping centre
development, being led by the Menlyn
Maine and Flanagan & Gerard consortium,
has been given the go-ahead by the local
KwaDukuza Municipality.
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h 2015
MPANY, IN COLLABORATION WITH SOUTHERN GUILD,
NTS GRAINS OF PARADISE
Following on from its showing at GUILD
International Design Fair in Cape Town,
R & Company, New York, will be
presenting Grains of Paradise, an
exhibition of contemporary work by four
African design studios.
Four African design studios exhibit in New York
Dokter and Misses, Kassena Town
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g on from its second showing at GUILD International Design Fair in Cape Town, R &
Securex provides visitors with an
y, New York’s foremost design gallery, will be presenting Grains of Paradise, an exhibition
unrivalled opportunity to view,
mporary work by four African design studios, in collaboration with GUILD organisers
Guild, from 24 March source products and
discuss and to 30 April.
Securex 2015 – Africa’s leading security & fire exhibition
services from leading 2012, African
eir first small-scale collaboration inSouthR & Company and Southern Guild have been
ogether in preparation for thismanufacturers taking some of the most exciting names
and international bigger partnership, and
n design to the USA. Grains of Paradise will see an important new body of work by Dokter
suppliers
es (Johannesburg, SA) sit alongside Porky Hefer’s iconic human-scale nests (Cape Town,
lptural wooden seating by Babacar Niang (Dakkar, Senegal) and detailed ceramics by
(KZN, SA).
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of the Grains of Paradise exhibition is inspired by Aframomum melegueta, a West African
mmonly known as grains of paradise, sometimes used for divination and in voodoo rites.
lly, it was imported by caravan through the Saharan Desert and then distributed to Sicily,
ere it was introduced to the Western world. The Grains of Paradise exhibition alludes to this
where a collection of works that are exotic, precious and unique, with excitingafricandesignmagazine.com
stories to tell,
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