Visit Decorex Cape Town for a unique blend of the emerging and the established; a wealth of talent and new reveals, green solutions and cost-cutting ideas. Decorex Cape Town is a celebration of the city's most delicate and daring spaces by leading style shapers, trend makers and décor creators, with Plascon as show sponsor and SABC3 as media partner.
For more information, highlights and schedules: visit www.decorex.co.za THIS WEEK'S FEATURED HIGHLIGHTS ARE: Conversations on Architecture: The massive interest in all-things architecture lead to bringing the Conversations of Architecture seminars held at Decorex Joburg the past few years to Cape Town. Leading South African architects and designers Lloyd Rubidge, Mokena Makeka, Robert Silke and Don Albert join international key note speaker American architect Nancy Rogo Trainer. Sharing the stage with them is Gregg Cornforth, previously with Stauch Vorster Architects, now living in London.
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The South African Institute of Architects has assessed and validated this Category 1 CPD Activity. The activity carries 1 CPD credit.
Conversations on Architecture is proudly brought to you by CaesarStone with co-sponsors Plascon and Greenside Design Center.
Know your paint with Plascon:
Plascon has been Decorex SA's proud sponsor for the past 16 years and is South Africa's leading provider of paint and related materials. Industrial, commercial and retail clients enjoy the results of their extensive research and use of leading-edge technology. Visit the Plascon stand at Decorex Cape Town for expert advice, the latest colour trends, forecast and inspiration.
Here's why Decorex SA is proud to recommend Plascon:
| • | Plascon paint is prepared using the highest quality materials , leading-edge manufacturing procedures and innovative scientific formulas. |
| • | Green is not just a colour to Plascon. They understand the value of protecting their natural recourses and environmental managements systems are implemented at all manufacturing plants, to ensure that they meet the highest international standards through product and processes. |
| • | Rooted in the community and committed to giving back to the community, Plascon assists disadvantaged schools and crèches by donating paint and associated products to revamp their buildings. They are also involved with the National Council for the Blind through their sponsorship of cataract operations and contribute to orphanages around South Africa. |
| • | Plascon's 360º partnership pledge provides piece of mind to customers by managing all interior and exterior coating requirements. The pledge ensures that that their project managements team delivers and maintains the highest levels of quality and workmanship on every project. |
| • | The Plascon Prism Awards, run in association with Decorex SA, is a competition for senior Architectural and design students, that exposes young talent to PR campaigns and a platform to showcase their talent. |
| • | Plascon's first-of-a-kind Living Image Concept stores uses unique computer software to give an idea of what their paint will look like on a project by using digital images, combined with expert advice. |
| • | Find all the answers to your colour questions, the latest trends, colour forecasts and pages of inspiration in the tri-annual magazine Plascon COLOUR. |
Fast facts about the Plascon range of paints:
| • | Plascon Double Velvet's unique stain barrier forms a multi-layered protective coating preventing dirt from penetrating the paint. |
| • | The Micatex range has a unique weather block formulation with waterbeading that improves early water resistance. |
| • | The Wall and All range has a dirt barrier formulation that inhibits the growth of mould and fungus. |
| • | Plascon Velvaglo's ploytough formulation forms a resistant barrier to heat, steam and chipping. |
| • | The Cashmere Range's award winning Triple Action Bead Technology defuses more light, thereby hiding imperfections and forming a protective barrier. |
| • | The Plascon Professional Range, from undercoats and primers to topcoats and specialist application coatings, provides professional contractors with the complete coating systems required. |
| • | The Designer Walls Range, is a faux of products that offer different and unique finishes like Suede, Canvas, Metallic and Pearl. |
| • | Reconsidering the need for high quality products with an eco-friendly approach, the Terraco Coatings innovation will be introduced to South African stores. |
Plascon's focus is on maintaining high standards and see paint as a 50% science and 50% art. They have done their part, now the rest is up to you. For more information visit www.plascontrade.co.za
Sanlam Dream Rooms:
Fresh, chic, conceptual and creative, each stand in the Sanlam Dream Rooms will be transformed into a fantasy setting of design elements and new ideas. This exquisite collection of high-end décor brands, lifestyle stores, fabric houses and interior decorators merge trends, palettes, materials and patterns with a contemporary edge.
SANLAM, Thinking Ahead With the Next Generation Style Shapers:
Sanlam and Decorex SA, in association with VISI, have tracked down a talented brigade of emerging young designers and decorators who are shaking up the norms. These style shapers will be playing with a blank canvas and transforming an empty shell into a 'Home to the New.'
South African Handmade Collection:
This dti initiative brings you high quality, design led, eco-friendly South African craft products. Each work in this collection - whether it's a basket expertly woven from grass or plastic; a quirky recycled chandelier or a high-design ceramic gallery piece - represents a strategic step taken by its creator towards becoming a successful local entrepreneur and exporter.
This definitive annual collection showcases our handmade products to the world: to international buyers, to the dynamic local trade and also to South Africans who welcome the handmade into their own homes with so much enthusiasm and pride.
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