BLURRING THE LINES BETWEEN OLD AND NEW Consisting of a retail gallery and events activation program, Always Welcome travels to retail environments enlivening and activating unused shopfronts and spaces with contemporary South African design for limited periods The Always Welcome cooperative is founded by leading South African designers and manufacturers in collaboration with Garreth van Niekerk and Alan Hayward from creative consultancy Coraltree Projects. The space they have designed is modular and updateable, and the curation changes throughout the run of the nomadic retail environment to foreground different designers, their work and headspace. Nomadic Retail is for design goods and consists of a retail gallery and events activation program, Always Welcome travels to retail environments enlivening and activating unused shopfronts and spaces with contemporary South African design for limited periods. A SEAT AT THE TABLE Always Welcome is a growing community of some of Southern Africa’s most talented designers, craftspeople, and big-thinkers. Amongst them they have won every Most Beautiful Object, and Designer of the Year, and Icon award you can imagine. But they’re more than just great designers. They’re people who believe that together we can do more than we can do seperately, and that’s the sort of thinking that is growing Always Welcome into a design force which shows no sign of slowing down. Members of Always Welcome include, Coco-Mat, Coral Stephens, Dokter and Misses, Gone Rural, House of Gozdawa, Houtlander, Indigenus Planters, Inland Collective, Jan Ernst, Joe Paine, Kirsten Goss, Lothar Bottcher, Mash T, Okra Candles, Orlando Lighting, SMTNG Good Studio, The Urbanative, Trevor Stuurman, Voster & Braye, Wessel Snyman and Wanderland Collective. thought might work in the space. www.alwayswelcome.store
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