Haldane martin biography of martin

Contemporary South African Furniture Design

HALDANE MARTIN offers a sense of belonging to our world and the spirit of the times, by creating contemporary furniture that integrates, man, nature, culture and technology, with the human qualities of wisdom, love, and beauty.

Haldane martin biography of martin

DESIGN MANIFESTO

“As a contemporary industrial designer I strive to meet the needs of the whole human being by designing furniture that is simultaneously meaningful for the spirit, beautiful for the soul, and nurturing for the body.

Spirit.

We need our environments and the objects that populate them to reflect our deeper intelligence and wisdom as human beings. Referring to our shared cultural history has been a way that I have incorporated meaning, and a regional flavor into my work.

Personifying objects is another way of expressing myself as a creative human being. I believe that discovering this kind of intelligence in what surrounds us brings light to the human sp