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Boss Armchair - Tan & Black

Dark Horse designer furniture makes stylish Oso Dining Chair - Tan & Black

addition to @home

s of the 13th of October 2022, premises in the city’s Paarden Eiland “The collab with @home is quite an
@home customers will be treated industrial district and creates employment exciting story. We've worked with CloutSA
Ato a capsule collection of designer for an ever-growing number of people. in the past, and their team knew our look
furniture pieces from Dark Horse, one of The collection of original designer and feel and what we’re capable of. They
South Africa’s leading design brands. pieces from Dark Horse will go on sale included us in a presentation to @home to
“When you buy a local product, there’s at selected @home stores as part of a say, ‘if you want to go on a journey of local
a trickle-down effect. The money that you collaboration facilitated by CloutSA, the design, these guys should be a part of that
spend goes back into the economy in a purpose-led enterprise and business-to- conversation’,” says Nelson.
variety of ways, and all the people who business market maker that has facilitated @home customers will be able to shop
contribute to the making of the product numerous collaborations between South a collection of five signature pieces from
get the benefit of that spend. African furniture and lighting designers Dark Horse, including their Saville chair,
“You not only get this amazing product and corporate entities. an exemplary exercise in circular design.
that's quite unique, you are also truly Among their best-known projects is It is made from leather off-cuts, stitched
stimulating the local economy,” says the Nando’s Hot Young Designer talent together into a 31-metre-long narrow
Jarrad Nelson, co-owner of Dark Horse. search, as well as the Nando’s Design strip, which then gets hand woven to
Nelson co-founded the furniture Programme, which has facilitated sales create the dining chair. “It really is an
design brand with his wife, Lise, 11 years of over R80 million of local furniture and incredible piece, and it reflects how we
ago in their small Cape Town apartment. lighting design to global markets since its approach design for sustainability,” says
Today, the business has its own warehouse official launch in 2018. Nelson.
Other pieces in the collection include
Dark Horse’s three-seater Boss couch and
House Nematswerani Boss armchair, both of which are made
of leather and a steel frame, reflecting the
brand’s “bold yet refined” design aesthetic.
Other pieces in the collection are the Oso
and the Rosso dining chairs, also made of
leather and steel.
“Our design philosophy is about
bringing people closer together, so with
everything we do, we want to build
memories through the use of our furniture
and have those pieces available for the
next generation as well. This is why we use
hard-wearing materials that can last this
generation and the next,” says Nelson. dw

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