100% Design Africa

100% Design Africa Discover the best in contemporary design at Africa's largest curated design platform

30 July – 02 August, Sandton Convention Centre

100% Design Africa is far more than just an exhibition. As Africa’s only international design show, 100% Design Africa is the launchpad that the industry needs to enter onto the global stage. Through the spirit of exchange, this hybrid trade event brings key members of the interior industry together, showcasing all manner of contemporary designs from across the continent – from furniture and produ

ct design to specialised areas like art, literature, and crafts. As a phygital platform, 100% Design Africa combines the power of physical exhibition space and events, with the power of digital storytelling, enabling innovative ideas to be showcased in new and exciting ways. Through the use of technology, we’re able to make the trade fair a more dynamic and interactive space, with greater reach and relevance than ever before.

Light has the power to change everything.It can soften a room, sharpen its architecture, reveal the character of a mater...
26/08/2026

Light has the power to change everything.

It can soften a room, sharpen its architecture, reveal the character of a material or completely shift the way a space feels. At 100% Design Africa, lighting emerged not simply as a finishing touch, but as a powerful design language in its own right.

Across Future Talks brought to you by Oggie Oak Flooring, pioneering lighting designers explored the creative, technical and emotional possibilities of illumination. On the floor, FloodLight and Ten x Ten placed local lighting firmly in the spotlight, alongside work by Stephen Pikus, Handmades Story, Rialheim, Wire Maven and GreenCraft Lighting.

At 100% Fresh, emerging designers experimented with glass, material and light, while the Design Week Lagos and AIDA Awards presentations extended the conversation across the continent.

Together, these projects showed the remarkable range of lighting being imagined and made here, from sculptural statement pieces to quieter objects that transform the atmosphere of a room.

Swipe through for a brighter look at local lighting at 100% Design Africa 2026.

Some of the most exciting moments at 100% Design Africa happened where one practice met another.LDA Lighting and MaXhosa...
24/08/2026

Some of the most exciting moments at 100% Design Africa happened where one practice met another.

LDA Lighting and MaXhosa Africa explored what can emerge when light encounters a distinctive language of colour and pattern.

At The Good Table, Studio Botanicus, Food, I Love You, Lounge by Marble & Mauve and Wolkberg Casting Studios created an experiential restaurant around slow gathering.

Nearby, The Social Library brought Wolkberg Casting Studio and Nnaw Dining together in a cultural destination shaped by food, cocktails, music and analogue living.

Russell Kaplan Auctioneers worked with Decorex Africa to create The Collector’s Room, placing significant design and collectable objects into a new exhibition context.

At 100% Fresh, Tshwane University of Technology TUT and Greenside Design Center College of Design Centre shared a platform for emerging practice, experimentation and exchange.

Across the floor, collaboration wasn’t simply about combining names. It brought different materials, disciplines and ways of thinking together to create something none could have made alone.

At 100% Design Africa, design wasn’t simply something to look at. It was something to eat, drink and spend time inside.T...
21/08/2026

At 100% Design Africa, design wasn’t simply something to look at. It was something to eat, drink and spend time inside.

The Good Table brought together Studio Botanicus Food, I Love You, Lounge by Marble & Mauve and Wolkberg Casting Studios in an experiential restaurant shaped around the art of slow gathering. Raw and weathered timber, antique linens, old silver and basketry met stainless steel, contemporary florals, soft furnishings and ambient light. It was an interior where atmosphere, flavour and materiality were considered with equal care.

Nearby, The Social Library by Wolkberg Casting Studio and Nnaw Dining reimagined the show bar as a cultural destination inspired by analogue living and the luxury of slowing down. A monolithic stainless-steel bar, cast surfaces, timber, suspended lighting, vinyl and collected objects created the setting for cocktails, food, music and conversation.

Led by chef Tshepo Moemise, Nnaw Dining brought a culinary language rooted in classical French technique and layered with Japanese fermentation, Taiwanese flavour balance and the food cultures of Southeast Asia.

Together, the two spaces became the social heart of the 100% Design Africa floor: distinct worlds in which hospitality became another way to experience design.

100% Fresh offered a view of what’s emerging in African design now.Students from TUT presented new lighting concepts con...
19/08/2026

100% Fresh offered a view of what’s emerging in African design now.

Students from TUT presented new lighting concepts connected to the Ngwenya Glass Eswatini/Swaziland Glass Safari 2026, an exchange in Eswatini developed with Ngwenya Glass and the MOYA African Glass Network. The project brought visiting artists, local glassmakers and emerging designers together through experimentation with glass, light and making.

Alongside it, Greenside Design Center College of Design introduced Plotville, a new project exploring emerging design practice from Johannesburg.

Different in material and approach, the two presentations shared an openness to experimentation, collaboration and ideas still taking shape. This was 100% Fresh: a space for the next generation to test what design could become.

18/08/2026

Across more than 20 sessions, this year’s Future Talks brought to you by Oggie Oak Flooring connected the continent’s leading industry voices across disciplines, while bringing truly diverse audiences into lively conversations with each other as the topics unfolded.

What stood out was the sheer magnitude of what African design is achieving. From opening conversations exploring a new mode of interiors, one that is softer, slower and more intentional, to keynotes by the likes of award-winning architect Peter Rich on the ways global architecture is embracing ancient African thinking, the programme offered new perspectives at every turn.

We left inspired, informed and ready for another year of African design.

17/08/2026

Across more than 20 sessions, this year’s Future Talks brought to you by Oggie Oak Flooring connected the continent’s leading industry voices across disciplines, while bringing truly diverse audiences into lively conversations with each other as the topics unfolded.

What stood out was the sheer magnitude of what African design is achieving. From opening conversations exploring a new mode of interiors, one that is softer, slower and more intentional, to keynotes by the likes of award-winning architect Peter Rich on the ways global architecture is embracing ancient African thinking, the programme offered new perspectives at every turn.

We left inspired, informed and ready for another year of African design.

Studio Lloyd is heading to Maison&Objet.Selected for the 2026 Maison&Objet Rising Talent Awards - part of a new partners...
14/08/2026

Studio Lloyd is heading to Maison&Objet.

Selected for the 2026 Maison&Objet Rising Talent Awards - part of a new partnership between the fair and Decorex Africa - the South African studio will present a new collection of sculptural lighting in Paris this September.

The collection brings Studio Lloyd’s signature handwoven rope into conversation with raw brass and metal, offering a first glimpse of a new direction that is more architectural, material and experimental.

At its centre are the OPTIC pieces, where softness and structure, craft and light come together. Each piece is woven and finished by hand, retaining the individuality of the maker even as the studio moves towards a more refined, product-led practice.

Swipe through as Studio Lloyd shares what it’s taking to Paris, the details worth looking closer at, and why Maison&Objet marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter.

We all have that one thing we know we should've bought. Not the whole show. Just the one thing that we can't forget. We ...
13/08/2026

We all have that one thing we know we should've bought. Not the whole show. Just the one thing that we can't forget.

We asked some of the country's top creators who joined us this year what they couldn’t stop thinking about after 100% Design Africa.

What design stayed with you? Let us know in the comments.

This year's Featured Artist of 2026 at 100% Design Africa Arminda da Silva didn’t simply fill a stand. She built a world...
11/08/2026

This year's Featured Artist of 2026 at 100% Design Africa Arminda da Silva didn’t simply fill a stand. She built a world.

For Imagine That, the Decorex Africa 2026 Featured Artist made every element of the presentation herself, from generating the artworks, hand-making its real-life objects, to painting the booth.

The installation became an extension of Arminda’s Soft Life universe: personal, vivid and assembled by hand from the first idea to the final space.

Follow along as we unpack more from the Soft Life, and the things we don't want to forget.

Fresh from their fifth Decorex Joburg showcase, Studios, winners of Best 100% Design Stand Award at this year’s show, a...
06/08/2026

Fresh from their fifth Decorex Joburg showcase, Studios, winners of Best 100% Design Stand Award at this year’s show, are now preparing for their Paris debut.

This September, the studio will represent South Africa as part of the Maison&Objet Rising Talent Awards, presented through a new partnership between Decorex Africa and Maison&Objet.

Swipe through as we catch up with Meetlo Studios about the work they’re taking to Paris and what this important international moment means for their practice.

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