Novel Art | Celebrating Colour, Culture & South African Design

Spring is the perfect time to bring the outdoors in, and birds and florals are giving interiors a fresh new energy this season. Novel Art’s new Fauna and Flora textile range translates the beauty of nature into expressive textile designs, combining botanical elements and bird motifs to add colour, movement and character to interiors. Whether used as a statement accent or layered into an existing scheme, these designs bring the feeling of spring indoors while showcasing elements of South African design.

Heritage Month: South African Design with a Story

Heritage Month is a celebration of the cultures, people and influences that make South African culture so distinctive. Novel Art’s African faces-inspired canvases and iconic Nguni designs celebrate African identity through bold imagery and characterful pieces.

Novel Art’s new Delft collection explores what happens when cultures and design traditions meet. The iconic African Nguni and Proteas are paired with the intricate blue-and-white aesthetic of Delft, a traditional Dutch decorative style. The result is an unexpected fusion of African symbolism and a European pattern, creating a contemporary piece with a story rooted in two design traditions.

Behind the Design: Inspiration in Unexpected Places

At Novel Art, the design process starts long before a finished piece reaches an interior. Its mood boards bring together colours, textures, materials and references that shape its collections, including its creative collaboration with Tjhoko Paint.

Inspiration can also come from everyday surroundings. Smooth pebbles discovered along the beach sparked the organic forms behind its “Pebble” laser mirror, while the distinctive markings of giraffes and zebras inspired its animal-print laser mirrors. By translating these natural patterns into sculptural décor, familiar forms become something unexpected. Because great design isn’t only about how a piece looks – it’s about the story, inspiration and creativity behind it.

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