cresta mowana hotel
Hospitality // May 2018
Design African inspired woven seating for the 220 bedrooms in the hotel as well as the large restaurant, lounging area and reception – as part of their complete upgrade.

unique problems
Seating was needed on the bedroom patios, in the rooms themselves, luggage stools, dining chairs and occasional lounging chairs… all within a tight budget and needed to be both ethnic , designer, woven, light and strong/durable.

For the patio chairs for each room – custom designed slipper chairs. For the restaurant we repurposed our Paindane curve chairs to suit the requirement. For the luggage stools – we needed to redesign our Ubuhle to have turned legs to suite the bedroom décor more. The lounge area – we developed an Imbiza Occasional chair – which we have subsequently ranged and it now forms an integral part of our imbiza offering.
woods used and finishes
Wood used – was Kiaat throughout. This was in a period where we still used Kiaat and could source it sustainably.
The kiaat was bleached to bring on the weathered look quicker.
Roping was a combination of Danish weave and 5mm Wrap weave – all rope was Silver to tie in with the weathered wood look.