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KSA update

e were so pleased to celebrate
the last part of 2021 with an
Windustry professionals’ gala
dinner in Durban. This was the first
event we have been able to host in KZN
since the beginning of 2020, so to say
members were looking forward to getting
together was an understatement. KSA
KZN regional representative, Kerryn
Bailey, pulled out all the stops, organising
an Enchanted Evening themed dinner
with live music at the Elangeni Hotel in
Durban.
KSA members booked tables to
host their special clients and industry
professional guests. Guests were
welcomed to the event in a wash of green
and sparkle finished off by a red carpet,
to enjoy candyfloss topped sparkling
wine sponsored by Grass. Charisse Gray,
KSA KZN’s regional chairperson, gave an
emotional speech about the challenges
the industry in KZN has faced, and the format has become a sought-after your kitchen company gets to site’,
strength of character shown by KSA guide for consumers and professionals ‘Timber countertops’, ‘Appliance advice
members and the industry, as they dealt alike, and will be available later January from the experts’, ‘Surviving a kitchen
with the riots seen in the region earlier 2022. In recent years we have invited revamp’, ‘The KSA’s sign-off checklist’,
this year. All the guests entered into the kitchen members of the KSA to submit ‘Pimp my kitchen’, ‘Kitchen layouts’, ‘The
spirit of things embracing the whimsical images of their work that fulfil a brief for evolution of the pantry’, ‘What’s legal and
theme, and after a delicious buffet dinner, consideration as the cover image if the what’s not”.
danced the night away. No sooner was brochure. This year we are very pleased We are happy to confirm that our 2021
the evening over than Kerryn was being to have awarded the cover to Spotlight kitchen project with the IID and various
asked when the next one would be. Our Joinery in Cape Town. We asked them tertiary institutions was a great success.
thanks go out to the following members to submit an image of a kitchen where With multiple projects submitted, it has
for their support of the event: Sonae multiple materials had been showcased been an honour for the KSA to work
Arauco, ProQuartz, Blum, Franke, PG capturing texture, tone and colour. Keep through them and give feedback to these
Bison, Stone Co, Interslab, Hansgrohe, an eye on the KSA website homepage in future designers on how they have handled
FIT, Neolith, and Grass ZA. January for a link to download the 2022 designing a kitchen. We are hugely proud
The KSA’s 2022 Consumer Guide is guide, or contact your local KSA offices to confirm that the following students
well under way. This annual publication for a hard copy. The new edition will submitted the top five projects: Cherie-
that is released in both print and digital feature articles on: ‘What to do before Lee Cloete, 3rd year at Cape Peninsula

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