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12 - 17 June 2018
Southern Guild and SFA Advisory present Endangered, a series of unique seating pods by renowned South African artist Porky Hefer, premiering at Design Miami/ Basel 2018. Benefiting the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, the sculptures depict five endangered species – an orangutan, a polar bear, a sloth, a blue whale, and a great white shark – all made of eco-friendly and recycled materials by artisans in Cape Town.
Eminent South African designer Porky Hefer’s Endangered collection debuts at Design Miami/ Basel, available in a limited edition of three per animal through Southern Guild, with 25% of the sales’ proceeds supporting LDF’s wildlife conservation programmes. Hefer worked closely with textile artist Ronel Jordaan and craft collectives Heartworks and Mielie to translate his creatures into giant, tactile sculptures whose surfaces have been crocheted, felted, stitched and embroidered with unique embellishments. Visitors to Design Miami/Basel are able to sit in, on, and around these friendly sculptural creatures igniting a sense of empathy as the stories of the real animals’ hardships and the importance of their survival to our own lives is recounted through interaction, video, and text.
