Dream Teams
House and Leisure|June 2017

As collaborations gain popularity IN TODAY’S creative circles, A TRIO OF homegrown partnerships SHOW THE IMPACT that such pairings CAN HAVE ON global design.

Tracy Lynn Chemaly
Dream Teams

PROJECT: LINEAGE CABINET

Collaborators

Wiid Design x Lionel Smit

Connection

Furniture designer and manufacturer Laurie Wiid van Heerden and famed local artist Lionel Smit first collaborated three years ago on a signature Wiid Design bench that was shown at GUILD 2014. Painted by Smit with his highly sought-after large-scale faces, it sold before the show even opened.

‘I love being involved in something that takes me out of my usual environment and places my work in a different context,’ says Smit. ‘It makes you see the work differently.’ Following the success of their first venture, the two are currently collaborating on their third bench, having recently completed the Lineage cabinet.

Creation

While Smit applies thick layers of paint with varied visual texture, Van Heerden sees to the technical specs, covering all design details with precision and in turn giving Smit the freedom of artistic expression. Lineage, a cork-and-steel cabinet weighing close to 550kg (it dissects into three parts for easy installation), finds its harmony in a historical narrative – gables reference Cape Dutch architecture, while the Cape Malay women painted on the aluminium doors speak of the Western Cape’s rich cultural heritage.

‘I’ve always been fascinated by cabinets,’ Van Heerden says. ‘In Europe, they are heirloom pieces that can be viewed in museums, and are carved with so much symbolism in the imagery.’ His idea to create one such collectible piece fashioned in a way that it would present itself as an artwork in a grand entrance hall resulted in three-and-a-half months of fastidious design work before Smit was sent the doors on which to paint, having to swap out his usual oil colours for car paint.

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