Press
Publications + Film Features
The brand Haldane, and its’ director Haldane Martin, have won multiple awards + international acclaim for both furniture + interior design.
For those who love a good read, you can find the links to features in design blogs, print magazines + other publications below or watch videos of design talks, tv shows and interviews.
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VISI issue 132 ft. HALDANE SHOWROOM
Visi magazine issue 132 features the new studio and SHOWROOM of South Africa’s design maverick HALDANE MARTIN, the creative force behind the Haldane brand.
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MUSE Design Award Winner 2024
Winner of Muse Design Awards 2024 - Contour Daybed by Haldane Martin.
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House and Leisure Vol 11. WANDER
Makers who are changing the landscape of architecture, art, decor and design - Haldane Martin's Contour Daybed in House & Leisure Vol 11 Wander.
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Dezeen ft. Contour
Dezeen features Contour Daybed by Haldane Martin. Described by brand Haldane as “a luxurious statement in alfresco leisure”, the Contour outdoor daybed by designer Haldane Martin features layered cushioning and an overhead canopy.
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FRAME ft. Contour Daybed
Frame Magazine features Contour Daybed by Haldane Martin. The Contour Daybed is a bold architectural statement by premium outdoor furniture brand HALDANE. Opulent but restrained, this future icon by acclaimed designer Haldane Martin is distinguished by its graceful circular geometries
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House and Leisure Vol 4. BUILD
“The Church Studio – In what was once a church, a local furniture designer Haldane Martin and his wife Danielle create a bright and breezy work-home environment” House & Leisure Vol 4 BUILD featuring Haldane Martin.
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Dezeen ft. Songololo
Dezeen Showroom features South African designer Haldane Martin's Songololo, a segmented outdoor sofa that users can contort into curving shapes. Available from outdoor furniture brand Haldane, each Songololo sofa is made up of sections comprising an aluminium leg and a
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VISI 117 Soul of Summer
South Africa’s most beautiful magazine Visi, Summer Dec 2021 /Jan 2022 issue 117 Soul of Summer features Haldane Martin’s Songololo sofa as Visi Reasons p 147. “Flexible and sophisticated, the outdoor Songololo sofa is a testament to the enduring style
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‘Breathe’ House & Leisure Volume 3 Magazine
For Haldane Martin, design is about expressing your identity – one’s time and place. He’s encapsulated this perfectly with the reinvention of his iconic Songololo sofa – using past inspiration for pleasant pleasures. House & Leisure Vol 3 Breathe features
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Architektur & Wohnen Cover Story
Haldane furniture on the cover of German design & architecture magazine, Architektur & Wohnen. ‘Das Magische Baumhaus’ – a sophisticated indoor-outdoor home in Johannesburg, South Africa features premium outdoor furniture by Haldane Martin.
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Love That Design In Conversation With Haldane Martin
South African designer, Haldane Martin, believes that home is the heart of everything – home is his family and home is also his homeland. His designs are deeply entrenched in the social and cultural zeitgeist of his country at the
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‘From Nothing to Something’ Lifestyling Magazine interviews Haldane Martin
An icon on the South African design landscape, Haldane Martin has returned to his roots with a firm focus on furniture – in particular, outdoor. It’s been a prolific period of releasing more than half a dozen new collections, all
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Contours Design Interviews Haldane Martin
Design to manifest community, to help humans be together in nature – A Guest feature with Haldane Martin in Contours magazine.
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Visi feature Haldane Martin
Hula, Haldane Martin’s outdoor furniture range, echoes his desire to design meaningful objects that create a sense of belonging in time and place.
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Design Milk feature Haldane Martin
Haldane offers up Urban Chic Living - Design Milk feature Haldane Martin
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Habitat Magazine feature Haldane Martin
Habitat Magazine feature Haldane Martin “At Haldane Martin they’re saluting the sun with a new outdoor sofa collection: Papa Sun!
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House & Garden feature Haldane Martin
Haldane Martin’s Papa Sun collection is a fusion of function, form, South African flair and ultra-luxe comfort. Papa is home - House & Garden feature Haldane Martin
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Dossier feature Haldane Martin
Introducing the iconic South African designer Haldane Martin’s premium outdoor brand collection, designed in Cape Town, for urban-chic outdoor-living. Haldane’s multi-award winning furniture & interior designs are heralded as culturally significant contributions to the South African design language…”
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SA Decor feature Cha Cha & Hula
The team at Haldane Martin are thrilled to bring their iconic style to South African Outdoor Living! Designed with the South African lifestyle in mind, their latest outdoor collections of furniture are a paragon of beauty and versatility, handling the
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Swan Cafe
Swan Café, Cape Town’s first Parisian crêperie was designed by South African design icon Haldane Martin as featured in Wallpaper, Designboom, Eatsplorer, Contemporist, Eat Out Magazine.
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Mad Giant / Urbanologi
Winner of the prestigious international Restaurant & Bar Design Awards 2017 – Best Restaurant Design in Africa & the Middle East – Urbanologi restaurant at Mad Giant brewery designed by South African design giant Haldane Martin
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Truth Coffee
Named the world’s best coffee shop by MSN Travel in 2013 and again by The Telegraph in 2015, Truth Coffee designed by Haldane Martin in 2011, has become something of an icon in Cape Town’s cultural landscape .
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Top Billing – Inspiring Spaces – Studio Visit 2011
SABC3 Top Billing visited Haldane Martin’s previous studio and home in Cape Town as an Inspiring Spaces feature in 2011.”A wonderful result of being a furniture designer is that your home is filled with all your fabulous designs! Spending the
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Rorz Films – Haldane Martin Studio 2009
Rorz films captured a glimpse of the creative world of iconic South African designer Haldane Martin. The film features Haldane Martin’s earlier furniture works at his original Woodstock studio in 2011, showcasing (In order of appearance) Zulu Mama collection, Baba
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The Embodiment of Love – South African Design
Produced by Two Seas TV, Directed by Helen Atty with cameraman & editor, Kiko Herrera, The Embodiment of Love is a feature on South African Design in which Haldane Martin discusses his influences, inspirations and early career as
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CNN – African Design Special
CNN – TV Special on South African Design, Haldane Martin talks to CNN about his iconic Zulu Mama chair design inspired by a traditional Zulu basket. It’s an exploration of a Southern African Zulu weaving technique, says Haldane, and it’s
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Design Indaba 2007
Design Indaba 2007 in Barcelona, conference speaker Haldane Martin says "Our environments and the objects that populate them need to reflect our deeper intelligence and wisdom as human beings.” Design Indaba Expo continued to present a bustling marketplace for South