Mash.T Design Studio

The floor deserves the same attention as the ceiling.

The Trapezium Table Lamp and Floor Stand — part of the Axis Collection by Mash.T Design Studio. The same modular geometry, the same mild steel construction, brought down to the level where a room is actually lived in.
Copper Bond. Black Red. Made to order.

📸 Sarah de Pina
📸 Inge Prins , 🎨 Sanri Pienaar
📸 Frances Marais

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Suspended. Curious. Present.

The Tin Soldier is not a light that announces itself — it lets the warmth do the talking. Mild steel and perforated mesh in Copper Bond, suspended on a single wire at 1800mm wide.

A piece for ceilings with height and rooms with intention.

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A good pendant light fills the silence in a room. A great one makes you stop mid-sentence to look up.

The Concertina Pendant is 2100mm of mild steel and perforated mesh — a rhythm of stacked discs that unfolds across your ceiling in Bronze Brown, Bronze Gold, or Walnut. The name comes from how it moves visually, the way the forms seem to expand and contract as you walk beneath them.

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The Alfred Pendant was the first piece we made when we introduced telewire into our work at Mash.T; and it holds a history worth sharing.

The pendant is named after Bab Alfred, a master telewire weaver we had the privilege of working with. He was first introduced to the material in 1976, and his journey deepened nearly a decade later when he met pioneering weavers Bheki Dlamini and the late Elliot Mkhize, who brought him into the art of wire weaving, a practice that would become central to his life's work.

Telewire weaving has long been rooted in KwaZulu-Natal, where Zulu watchmen spent long hours at guarding posts weaving discarded telephone wire into small decorative objects. The material itself — overlooked, surplus wire — was transformed through patience and skill into things of genuine care and beauty.

We find something quietly profound in that lineage. A material once woven into keepsakes at roadside posts now living a different life, decades later, in a thoughtfully styled lodge in Malawi, curated by conscious-aesthete Heather Boting. The craft adapts. The story continues.

📷 Sarah de Pina

Yellow doesn't ask permission. It holds space.

The Liz Pendant and Flute Coffee Table.

The Smiley in Champagne Silver. Against white it's refined. Against black with the light on, it's something else entirely.

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📸 de Pina

Seeing all the content coming out of Milan Design Week has us feeling a little nostalgic.

We’re taken back to 2019, when we had the opportunity to present our work on a collaborative stand representing South African design- alongside friends The Ninevites, Wiid Design, Modern Gesture, and TheUrbanative.

Our stand was designed to reflect something deeply instinctive to how we, as South Africans, show up in the world- creating spaces and experiences that invite people in. The kind of space where people could step in and feel like they belonged there, like their presence added something to what was happening.

The motif on the window is hand-beaded using thousands of glass beads, depicting the rolling hills of the villages that have shaped how we navigate the world- and that continue to inform the work we make for conscious aesthetes.

We are excited to introduce Orbit, the newest addition to our Collectables Portfolio, first showcased earlier this year at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair.

We first introduced telewire into our material language more than five years ago when we began collaborating with Bab Alfred Ntuli, a master wire weaver whose decades of experience brought a remarkable depth of knowledge to the process. His own journey with telewire began in 1976.

Like most creative processes, the path required patience and iteration. Ideas were tested, reshaped, and sometimes abandoned before finding their way again. At one point, Bab Alfred almost stepped away entirely. The pressure of developing a collaborator’s idea can feel overwhelming – especially when you find yourself in that murky middle where you’ve come too far to stop, but the end is still unclear.

Bab Alfred has since passed away, but his legacy continues through the knowledge he shared with his children, who continue to weave remarkable objects that now find homes across the world.

Orbit continues this story.

Crafted from telewire, copper, and mild steel, the piece carries a suspended, gravitational quality. Multiple elements circle a central axis, appearing balanced yet in motion – like satellites caught mid-dance.

It’s the same Liz Pendant, just with a new “hairstyle” - some might call it a new pattern, but the effect is the same. It feels entirely new, even though the frame, the skeleton, remains unchanged.

📸 de Pina