KAAPENTRY – ball and claw your way there
In an inspiring match-making of ancient and modern, hot young furniture designer Gregor Jenkin and well-known antique dealer Deon Viljoen combine their expertise in creating exciting hybrid furniture design… For those amongst us interested in either antique furniture or modern design, go and check out how the two get married at this exhibition.
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163 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood,
Johannesburg, Gauteng
Rolled steel and cast aluminium meet ball-and-claw – in simple terms the approach to the collaborative exhibition of furniture by designer Gregor Jenkin and antique dealer Deon Viljoen. The exhibition is on at the Goodman Gallery in Parkwood, Johannesburg from 3rd – 10th December 2005.
The pieces created for the exhibition marry the yellowwood/stinkwood Cape-Dutch tradition and early twentieth-century ball-and-claw aesthetic with contemporary applications of profile-cut steel, cast aluminium and ceramic. Modern materials and technology are either incorporated into eighteenth- and nineteenth-century pieces or reflect or mimic iconic domestic forms and decorative elements in unexpected new combinations and contexts.
The exhibition will feature approximately 15-20 new and hybridized pieces of furniture, as well as lamps, ceramics and textile design. Through an exploration of tradition and renewal Jenkin and Viljoen hope their domestic objects will tease, intrigue and challenge without laboring the search for a “South African identity”.
Gregor Jenkin has held several successful exhibitions during the last two years and was chosen as Elle Decoration’s Emerging Designer of the Year (2005). He cuts, casts, dissects and moulds familiar forms and objects with an engineering-like precision without undermining the integrity of material, however unexpected its new context might be.
Deon Viljoen, the Cape-based dealer in 17th and 18th century furniture made at the Cape of Good Hope and at European trading posts in South and Southeast Asia, became interested in Gregor’s ‘Van die Stel’ project (2004) in which the designer creatively re-figured the ubiquitous Cape Regency turned leg in stinkwood and yellowwood tables into a stylish profile-cut steel table.
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