"Wiid Design is a Cape Town based design studio, established by Laurie Wiid van Heerden. Wiid design creates products & objects that can be seen as the interface between art and design - where materials are transformed into life enriching and durable products."
Laurie Wiid van Heerden established his studio, Wiid Design, in Cape Town in 2013. Often working collaboratively with other artists and across a wide variety of materials, Laurie’s product range spans furniture, lighting, tableware and collectible objects that combine specialist manufacturing with handcrafting.The studio has become well-known for its innovative use of cork in high-end product design, architecture and large-scale production manufacturing. Laurie Wiid’s work comes from a conceptual and artistic environment, an angle on various topics of contemporary culture, with a focus on traditional handcrafting in combination with avant-garde techniques. By combining handcrafting and specialist techniques, Wiid transforms materials into life-enriching and durable objet d’art.