Corrugated metal, in all its shapes, colours and textures, is inextricably tied to the contemporary South African landscape and for Cara / Davide – a South African-Milanese design duo – the metal’s possibilities go far beyond material. The two designers, Cara Judd (South African) and Davide Gramatica (Italian), who are based in Milan, recently spent some time as designers-in-residence at the Conrad Hicks Metal Studio working with Conrad and other local artisans and specialists to realise a prototype collection of beautiful furniture pieces called Ondulato, that challenge our perceptions of the material.
‘When we develop a project it is important for us to be coherent to the context in which we find ourselves,’ the pair explain to House and Leisure from their studio. ‘In Ondulato’s case, it was quite literally in a context where corrugated metal is iconic to the South African landscape and it stood out to us as a beautiful and graphic material to work with. But this material can be misconceived. We were concerned about how we could lift the inaccurately negative associations attached to this material without distorting the image of it, in the sense that we didn’t want to make it something that it wasn’t, we just wanted to change the perspective on it.’
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