Dille Thomas left a ten-year career at the Netherlands’ biggest bank to make furniture. Every colleague he told said the same thing: I wish I could do that.
Dille Thomas left a ten-year career at the Netherlands’ biggest bank to make furniture. Every colleague he told said the same thing: I wish I could do that.
In a world obsessed with speed, Laurie Wiid van Heerden champions the precision and intention of true craft. The Cape Town designer behind Wiid Design builds not just furniture, but feeling. Pieces that hum with originality, honesty, and a kind of grounded beauty that could only be born at the southern tip of Africa.
In the hands of Stellenbosch’s Mia Mélange, humble cotton rope becomes sculpture. Their hand-stitched baskets and bags balance function and feeling – woven with precision, colour, and the quiet joy of human craft.
