Restaurant and Bar Design Awards

Judges

Haldane Martin

Biography

Haldane Martin is a furniture designer based in Cape Town, South Africa. He qualified as an Industrial Designer in 1992. His iconic designs have won numerous awards, the most recent being the Elle Decor, South African Designer Of The Year 2010. His work has been exhibited internationally and is featured extensively in both local and international design publications. Haldane was also a guest speaker at Design Indaba in 2007. "I strive to meet the needs of the whole human being by designing iconic furniture that are meaningful for the spirit, beautiful for the soul, and nurturing for our bodies and the earth".

Design Excellence

Good design should aim to be sensitive to cultural context, create a pleasurable aesthetic experience, achieve high technical performance, and integrate with the environment in a sustainable manner. Design Excellence combines these principals with something new, unexpected, memorable and ground-breaking.