Cape Town Furniture Week 2025: What to See

We highlight the showrooms, exhibitions, and product launches at Cape Town Furniture Week 2025, which will take place around the City Bowl from 19 to 22 February.

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WORDS Gina Dionisio PHOTOS Hannah St Clair; Slater Studio

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Returning for its third edition, Cape Town Furniture Week (CTFW) once again takes centre stage as South Africa’s preeminent showcase of contemporary furniture, lighting and homeware.

This year’s event, taking place between 19 and 22 February, invites the industry and general public to “discover design in the city”, with a curated, publicly accessible programme of special exhibitions, open showrooms, pop-ups, launches, talks, behind-the-scenes tours, and the inaugural year of the CTFW x VISI Design Prize.

The exhibition programme takes place across 50+ venues in 5 design districts in central Cape Town: Central City, De Waterkant, Kloof Street, Gardens and East City. Attendees are invited to walk between the different locations in each district, kicking off with the festive Opening Night on Wednesday 19 February, where participating spaces will be open to the public from 5pm to 8pm. Open hours are from 10am to 5pm on Thursday 20 February and Friday 21 February, and from 10am to 2pm on Saturday 22 February.

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Our Cape Town Furniture Week Highlights

We highlight VISI’s standout exhibitions and events, collaborations, pop-ups, launches and other activity taking place around the City Bowl for Furniture Week.

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1. CTFW Festival Hub at Church House

19-22 Feb | Church House, 1 Queen Victoria Street

The festival hub for this year’s edition is at Church House, located alongside St George’s Cathedral. The hub hosts a collective exhibition of new designs from a number of brands and designers, along with pop-up installations over the two upper floors. Standouts include Clout/SA 2025 presentation, Circular Squared’s Hooked on Waste design challenge in collaboration with Plastic Pioneers, and Woodbender’s Time-to-Time bench. 

Other exhibitors at Church House include Acre Studio, Ananta Design Studio, Ben Kennedy design, Bronze Age / NØDE, Damascus, David Krynauw Design, Ex Hotel, Frystark, Green Brother, Hanneke Lourens, Hoi P’loy, Hope Garden Furniture, Hutch Custom, Jacobs Collection, Kora Collection, Kramer Design, Leighton Kalder Furniture, Locha Design Studio, Modern Gesture, Oliver Whyte, Studio Dilli, Studio Kalki, TENT, Thomas & Verburg, Vitalli., Vorster & Braye Ceramic Design, and White Sheep Studio.

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2. CTFW x VISI Design Prize Exhibition

CTFW and VISI introduce the Design Prize, an award for acknowledging and celebrating new design that advances the contemporary furniture and homeware industries in South Africa. Shortlisted entries will be on exhibition on the 2nd floor of the LEMKUS building at the corner of St George’s Mall and Waterkant Street, with the winner of the Design Prize announced at a private awards event for the industry, taking place during Cape Town Furniture Week.

Finalists include Anatomy Design, Bronze Age, David Krynauw Design, DEFT Studios, Hoi P’loy, James Mudge Furniture Studio, Jarvis, Kino, Meyer Von Wielligh, OKHA Design Studio, Studio Kalki, and White Sheep Studio.

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3. Opening Night

19 Feb | From 5 pm

Opening Night has always been a festive kick-off to Cape Town Furniture Week, with most participating venues open after hours, and many events taking place as well. It’s an opportunity to explore the city on foot, along the lines of Cape Town’s popular First Thursdays, to get a first glimpse at the designs, exhibitions and displays for Furniture Week, and to meet the designers and entrepreneurs behind the exhibiting brands.

Opening Night takes place on Wednesday 19 February from 5pm to 8pm, across all 5 design districts. Printed maps will be available at participating venues.

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4. Talks

CTFW Design Talks conference

The official Cape Town Furniture Week talks programme this year takes the format of an afternoon conference at the historic Cape Town Club on Wednesday 19 February. The programme will feature talks and conversations with the likes of Haldane Martin (HALDANE), Sindiso Khumalo (Sindiso Khumalo), Andrea Kleinloog (Hesse Kleinloog Studio), Joey Khuvutlu (Daily), Phillip Hollander (Houtlander), Pim Dekkers (Occony), Luke Pedersen (Pedersen + Lennard), Brad Armitage (Circular Squared), Matteo Cibic (Italian artist / designer), and Katherine Pichulik (PICHULIK).

19 Feb | 2-5 pm | Cape Town Club, 18 Queen Victoria Street

COST: R280

GET TICKETS: Get Tickets via Quicket

MORE INFORMATION: CTFW design talks

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A Discussion on Design at OKHA

Alongside their new Tribe Collection, OKHA will be hosting a discussion on design in collaboration with VISI Magazine. The conversation will be moderated by VISI editor-in-chief Steve Smith, with OKHA’s designer and director Adam Court, Studio Kalki’s Nikhil Tricam, Peter van der Post from Indigenus, and other guests.

19 Feb | 5 pm | OKHA Design Studio, 109 Hatfield Street

COST: Free

REGISTER: via Quicket

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From Copenhagen to Cape Town with HAY and INOVA Concept Store

Join INOVA for an in-store chat with Charlotte Baines from HAY, who will be talking about the reimagining of HAY’s AAC 222 chair by 10 local artists and design studios as part of the ‘Kaapenhagen’ Design Challenge. 

COST: Free

REGISTER: Via Quicket

21 Feb | 8:30 am | INOVA Concept Store, 76 Harrington Street

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Luke Pedersen + Steve Smith

Meet, greet, grab a Cedar Coffee and Hoghouse pasties de natas, and take your seat for a casual yet engaging conversation between Luke Pedersen and Steve Smith – including stories from the Pedersen + Lennard’s Design Week Challenge ’24.

COST: Free

REGISTER: Via Quicket

21 Feb | 10 am | Pedersen + Lennard, 24 Napier Street

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5. Collaborations

• INOVA Concept Store x HAY – ‘Kaapenhagen’ design challenge, featuring the reimagining of HAY’s AAC 222 chair by 10 local studios and designers.
• Matteo Cibic x Katherine Pichulik – A collaboration initiated as a part of the annual Italian Design Day, supported by the Italian Consulate as a part of Cape Town Furniture Week.
• African Jacquard x HALDANE – The South African textile brand will be launching its new outdoor fabric collection in collaboration with HALDANE.
• Weylandts x Thebe Magugu – the unveiling of their limited edition sofa collaboration.
• Vitalli. x Nina Lieska – a special exhibition in collaboration with Nina Lieska.
• A collaborative display at Church House.
• Wunders x Skinny laMinx – Wunders is launching new collaborations with Skinny la Minx and Dokter and Misses.
• Sofacompany x Renée Rossouw – an artist collaboration with Renée Rossouw

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6. Pop-ups

• CREMA Design at Longkloof
• James Mudge Furniture Studio at 54 Waterkant Street
• Kino at ditto
• Arrange Studio at Chommies
• uMugqa Studio and Ashanti Design at 50 Harrington Street
• Daily at Under the Aegis
• Kevin Fellingham Architects at the Erik Laubscher Trust
• Curación Collection at 7 Newport Street (Gardens)
• Tandem Design House at Platō Coffee
• Studio KÁJA at Loading Bay
• Willowlamp at Open City Architects
• N I S H at 156 Kloof Street
• SPRUNG Outdoor Living at Plantify Harrington Street
• Leila Atelier at Pauline’s (De Waterkant)

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7. Launches

• DEFT Studios – will be celebrating its new showroom and the launch of the ‘One by Each’ limited collection for Furniture Week.
• Dokter and Misses – the Joburg-based brand is showcasing its new MIST collection at its new Cape Town showroom upstairs at Heritage Square on Shortmarket St.
• Frystark – will be displaying its new Utility Stool located at the New Design Hub at Church House.
• Hoi P’loy – will be launching their Shard of Light 3D-printed lamp range.
• OKHA Design Studio – is launching its new Tribe Indoor/Outdoor table.
• Spectrum Mirror – Spectrum is a range of solid and gradient colour architectural mirrors created through an innovative process of layering pure metals onto glass. CTFW is the official launch for the brand.
• Studio Kalki – is celebrating the launch of a new wallpaper by Nikhil Tricam x Cara Saven, the Kalki Drinks Cabinet, and the new Studio Kalki sofa range.

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8. Tours

There are also factory and studio tours taking place outside of the City Bowl on Thursday and Friday, allowing you to see behind the scenes at the likes of Wiid Design, Wunders, Bronze Age, Space Agency + Cape City Modern, Green Brother, vetsak, Jan Ernst, HALDANE and Iziko Social History Centre.

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See all exhibitors, locations and events on the Cape Town Furniture Week website: capetownfurnitureweek.co.za

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