Ever wished you could travel through time, maybe have a cup of tea with Queen Victoria or do the Lindy Hop in Art Deco New York?
Taking place from 28 to 30 October, the gala evening opening on 27 October of the South African Antique, Art and Design Association (Saada) at the Wanderers Club is highly anticipated.
“The Saada expo is a fully vetted showcase of the best in South African antiques, art and design, except this year, the event will be a little bigger, and a lot sexier,” said Saada chief executive officer, Paul Mrkusic. He added that working with the theme of ‘Time Travel’, guests will feel like they are being transported through various decades via the design and antiques showcased.
“In today’s world of immediacy, it’s easy to think that design just pertains to the here and now, almost as though it just fell out of the sky. Sometimes that’s as much attention as we give it before moving on to look at, tweet and share the next brilliant thing that crosses our path or catches our eye,” Mrkusic said.
He explained that it’s easy to forget that everything that surrounds us is not so fashion forward as to have no past, but that each and every edgy innovation we see and experience has had an enormous amount of time, thought, intellectual exploration and experimentation put into it.
“Unlike other events that focus on a singular contemporary, innately transient moment, our annual expos are a boutique-style celebration of the vast history of design – past, present and future – and not simply a contemporary moment thereof. This assures the extraordinary variety of exhibits – each unique item on the show tells its own story, while at the same time it is a piece of the great and glorious puzzle of design through time.”
