Decorex Cape Town 2022 - Tastemaker Alert!
Tune your tastebuds at Decorex Cape Town, hosted at the CTICC, from 16-19 June 2022.
30/05/2022
The foodie focus at Decorex Cape Town includes an interactive Jar Exchange for Ladles of Love, a restaurant inspired by African beadwork, live DJs at the Best Bar in the City, and a substantial “menu” of pop-up flavours and experiences. Tune your tastebuds at the CTICC, from 16-19 June 2022.
FOOD XX JAR EXCHANGE
Visit this interactive stand to
participate in a Jar Swop initiative to donate
preserved foods to Ladles of Love. Swop your
full jar, and your story, for an empty jar to
keep paying it forward. This concept comes from
the “kitchen” of FOOD XX, a platform dedicated
to women in food.
Consisting of half the
world, women have the collective power to affect
stock markets, policies, corporate and creative
industries, their own lives, and the lives of
the women around them. FOOD XX identified the
need for a safe space for women in food to build
networks, celebrate and support one another, and
have much-needed conversations to find solutions
together. FOOD XX is dedicated to empowering and
celebrating women and the LGBTQIA+ community in
the food and drinks industry.
FOOD XX is
active via its awards, conferencing and
subsidiary events that deliver life-changing and
empowering content for women, by women. And now,
it is launching its FOOD XX JAR EXCHANGE at
Decorex Cape Town. Plus, people can also start
nominating their favourite women in food for
this year’s awards at Decorex Cape Town.
For centuries, women have preserved food and
their cultural heritage through the age-old
tradition of canning, jamming and pickling. The
dedicated FOOD XX stand will be an exchange hub
where anyone - and not just women - from all
over the peninsula will come to swop a jar of
their preserves with a card attached sharing the
story and recipe of the food in the jar. If you
don’t make your own preserves, you are welcome
to donate the store-bought variety, with a
shared anecdote as to why it’s your #fave –
anything from jam to gherkins, pickled onions,
beetroot, and even kimchi! Each donor will then
receive an empty jar, courtesy of Consol.
After Decorex Cape Town, the full jars of
food will be donated to Ladles of Love. The
recipe story cards will be compiled into an
online archive and the exchange zone will be
moved to Makers Landing at the V&A Waterfront to
keep the Jar Exchange going.
FOOD XX was
founded by Hannerie Visser of Studio H, a
culinary-minded design team offering creative
brand solutions from strategy and new product
development to innovation workshops, trend
reports and content creation. Their work is
driven by the senses, defined by science and
innovation, and their approach is deeply rooted
in exploring a sustainable future.
Studio
H has designed and produced work for a number of
clients including MasterChef South Africa, Moët
& Chandon, V&A Waterfront and Nando's. This is
alongside developing their own in-house projects
such as S/Zout, a water scarcity project; Chips,
an independent digital food magazine; Street
Food Festival in Joburg and Cape Town, and the
Food XX network.
See you (jar in hand) at the show!
NJANO
Experience this
contemporary restaurant interior by moea design
studio only at Decorex Cape Town. The studio was
founded by Cassandra Twala and Johanna von
Stein, with the intention of using design to
honour all forms of life - the word moea,
translated from Sesotho, means, air, wind or
spirit.
The studio works on
architectural, interior design and creative
consulting projects. “We ground ourselves in the
visceral process of making and soar in the
process of ideating and storytelling,” they say.
Twala is also a 2022 ambassador for Decorex
Africa.
To bring Njano to life, moea set
about to design a restaurant space which takes a
minimalistic approach to a traditionally
maximalist African craſt. The use of beads and
beadwork is the driving motif for form,
repetition and collective structure. Expect
larger-than-life beads that create striking
visual landscapes. The menu is equally
inspiring!
BEST BAR IN THE CITY
Winery
of the Year for 2022, Spier’s award-wining
vintages will be on offer, as live DJs pour out
their sounds at this vibey central bar. The main
ingredient for networking and connectivity, Decorex
Cape Town is prouod to facilitate interactions
that will ultimated result in extraordinary ideas and innovative
design. Where better to do that than at the most
exciting bar in the city?
“Having gone
so many years without in-person interaction, we want to
create a space which allows for collaboration
and leads to better, brighter ideas. Meet fellow
designers, vendors and sponsors from the
industry and expand your imagination,” is the
irresistible invitation from Decorex Africa
creative director, Bielle Bellingham.
POP-UP
In true pop-up spirit(s), coffee, gin, and craft beer will make for surprise refreshment stations – we’re not saying who, when, or where, only that they’ll be there! The longer you linger, the less you’ll miss!
Image credits for Jar Exchange:
Photo
@parisbphoto
Styling @studio_h_ / @juwan_9
For more information about Decorex:
Please visit https://decorex.co.za/ , contact
+27 (0)11 549 8300 or email
decorexinfo@reedexpoafrica.co.za.
For
more information about 100% Design South Africa:
Please visit
www.100percentdesign.co.za.