Walter Battiss was born in Somerset East to an English Methodist family in 1906, and became one of South Africa’s first and most important abstract painters. He first became interested in archaeology and primitive art as a young boy after moving to Koffiefontein in 1917, and drew and painted since childhood. View his scrapbook here.

Our Senior in-house designer, Franco Moz designed the stunning Tropical Leaf collection. These palm trees and banana leaves are one of our most sought after ranges and are incredibly versatile – they can create a relaxed, cosy interior feel, or be used in different colours to turn a feature wall into an elegant masterpiece.

Tretchikoff was a self taught artist who painted realistic figures, portraits and still lifes. Most of his many works were inspired by Malaysian or Chinese subjects that had influenced Tretchikoff during his early years spent in Manchuria. He is considered to be the “King of Kitsch” and one of the most commercially successful artists of all time. His ‘Chinese Girl’ is one of the best selling art prints to date.

She is a graphic-orientated & colour-fixated designer from South Africa. She graduated with a Masters of Architecture at the University of Cape Town in 2009 and completed the RSP Master at the European Design Labs in Madrid under director Jaime Hayon in 2010.

Soil Design represents the combined skills of two sisters, Kara and Mieke Wertschnig, who have worked, laughed and played together long before either of them found their chosen career. Kara is a designer who has spent the past seven years honing her skills on some aspirational brands including The Foschini Group, SAB Miller and Cape Town Tourism, as well as many smaller boutique clients. Mieke is an illustrator with an eye for detail and a bewildering range of styles that has seen her employed by various agencies and private companies to bring her unique way of looking at the world to their brands. Over the course of their careers they have collaborated with amazing results. They share a love of simplicity and an aesthetic sense that comes from a lifetime of shared experiences; add to this a touch of sibling rivalry and a deep understanding of each other’s thoughts and ideas, and you have Soil Design.

Donna Solovei is a little thing. But her work – illustration-based creations adapted to suit different mediums, is pretty big. Hers is a playful, intricate world bursting with life while remaining delicate in its expression. Donna’s most recent obsession has been the merging and melding of animals – an imaginative world of might be’s and could’ve beens where two become one. There is a certain kind of sensitivity to aesthetics in Donna’s work; she employs natural lines, influenced by the textures and shapes of the world around us, to depict her characters. Creating awareness in her own way, Donna’s love for animals is depicted in her drawings. Even as more animal species become endangered, Donna goes beyond the expected to create impossible new breeds on paper – Hycupines and Pythopards roam free in the jungles of this artist’s mind. Wide-eyed in wonder, she puts up on the walls, the things that don’t exist but that she pines to see come to life in the world. Donna has studied at both Chelsea College of Art and Camberwell College of Art in London and has a BA(hons) degree in Illustration.

Design Team creates feel-good printed fabrics, inspired by nature and every-day life on the African continent. Cotton and linen base cloths are custom dyed to a unique colour palette and printing is done by hand using flat bed screen printing techniques.
Amanda Haupt and Lise Butler started DesignTeam while completing their Textile design and Technology degrees in 2000.

What started out as a single stand at a trade show focusing on scatter cushions, grew to a brand that has become recognizable and loved by South Africans and sold across the globe. We believe that textiles are the most widely used and understood design medium because of its tactile and functional nature. Design Team strives to make good design accessible with a positive narrative through pattern and colour – now also available as wallpaper!

Willie Schlechter was born in Joubertina in 1982 and matriculated from the Lady Grey Arts Academy. He received a BA FA (fine art) degree in 2004, and an MPhil VA (illustration) degree in 2008 from the University of Stellenbosch. During his Masters studies he was introduced to botanical art by Vicky Thomas, and has since been working mainly within this genre.

Willie taught Art and Design at Stellenberg High School in the Northern suburbs of Cape Town from 2008 to 2016. During this time he often participated in group-exhibitions locally and internationally. Awards received during this period include a silver medal in 2010 at Botalia, Painted Flora in Lucca, Italy; a bronze medal in 2010 and 2013 respectively at the Kirstenbosch biennale; and a merit award at the 21st World Orchid Conference in Pretoria.

A Scottish textile graduate with an MA in Fashion & Textiles from Heriot Watt University in Galashiels and a BA in Graphic Design from Maidstone College of Art in Kent. Adrienne has many years experience working in London and Edinburgh in graphic design, illustration, advertising and surface pattern design for textiles.

Her love for pattern, print and wallpaper began as a child:

“My father was a painter and decorator in his beloved town of Hawick in the Scottish border countryside and many relatives of my family worked in the textile industry there. Growing up I remember the distinct smell of paint from my father’s workshop and car. Our home always had wallpaper swatch books stacked up for his clients. My schoolbooks were always covered in the coolest patterns of the day”.

Adrienne’s work always starts in her sketchbook withdrawings in pencil, ink or watercolour before being digitised and developed into designs for wallpaper or printed textiles in photoshop or illustrator.Her inspiration and colour palettes can often be trend driven or taken straight from her natural surroundings. She loves the drama of bold florals with striking dark and bright colour pops. She also loves the balance and calm which canbe created for interior solutions using a more muted, quiet colour palette. Her designs are an eclectic mix of designs which can work individually or be used in various combinations together.

Adrienne works from her home studio outside Edinburgh and is a lecturer in design also.She has exhibited her textile work with various design collectives at trade shows internationally such as Premier Vision, Paris, Heimtextil, Germany and Print Source, New York.

This collection showcases an interpretation of selected Fabricnation textile designs. Colour and scale has been adapted to create fresh wallpapers. Fabricnation was established in 2007, but it has its roots in a bond forged two decades earlier when its designers, Jane Solomon and Jann Cheifitz began designing and printing together in a garage.

Jane and Jann are inspired by the African textile tradition, rendered in a modern urban context with its blending of diverse sources and influences to create the fabric of a nation.

Boledi is Glorinah’s praise singing name usually used to showthe highest form of respect and acknowledgement.
Born in Limpopo and grew up in the city of Pretoria, she has embedded her nostalgic early childhood life in her heart and continues to reflect it in her wallpapers and fabrics, whilst her modern side is strongly evident in her furniture range.
Extreme neutrals, bold geometric patterns, careful use ofcolour and simple lines represent her signature style. Being a true city girl with a rural heart, her core mission is to re-define the African design style and introduce her version of high-end modern Africa to the modern world.