Award Winning Furniture Design Company The Urban Native Aims To Provide African Cultural Inspired Furniture
Award Winning Furniture Design Company The Urban Native Aims To Provide African Cultural Inspired Furniture. The Urban Native is an award winning contemporary African furniture and product design company based in South Africa. Its furniture and products are differentiated by the juxtaposition of abstracted African cultural inspirations with the functionality & look and feel of modern materials, technologies and modern furniture silhouettes; whilst guided by the philosophies of craft, collaboration and design evolution.
All of the products are designed and manufactured in South Africa. Started by Mpho Vackier an engineer turned furniture designer, the Urban Native team constantly explores the role of culture and cultural representations and visibility in modern societies, with the aim of telling contemporary African stories through furniture and product design.
The company believes that design should make life better. It believes in form and function as functional design can & should always look good. The company believes in authentic design as it believes in telling african stories through design. The Urban Native is a company that knows that representation matters. This is why it also believes in collaborating with amazing creatives globally!
With a firm belief in the idea and the benefits of collaborative working relationships we work with a range of talented multidisciplinary professionals to offer inspired and imaginative and multifunctional design solutions.
