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Indigenus, founded in 2014, is the brainchild of Cape Town local, Peter van der Post. Peter noticed a lack of high design planters in the market and the vision to produce the most beautiful, original and desirable planters began to grow.
The Indigenus team have collaborated with leading designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. The focus is on sustainability and quality luxury, striving to make planters for life and not just for a few seasons.
Indigenus supports the creation of jobs in Southern Africa where unemployment runs at around 30%. Many of their employees feed many more mouths than just their immediate family and every time a planter is purchased that secures employment.
It has taken Indigenus years of refinement, many valuable lessons learnt and, ultimately, setting up their own world class factory for in-house manufacturing, to be able to ensure that the planters are of the highest quality. All materials are sustainably sourced and the planters are made by hand. Some take up to 20 man hours each to manufacture. It is this craftsmanship that puts Indigenus in a league of its own.
Indigenus is focused on collaboration with the world’s top designers and artists. Each designer’s range is unique and illustrates the impact that beautiful sculptural planters have on architecture and landscapes. The planters close connection to the earth is expressed through the design, made with beautiful natural materials and evoking an underlying story of our relationship with the natural world.
Peter van der Post is the visionary behind Indigenus, a committed design entrepreneur who saw the potential for considered, well-designed, contemporary planters which would elevate architectural spaces and landscapes. Since its inception in 2014, he has grown the stable of designs with a simple philosophy that the Indigenus planters should be ‘extraordinary, intelligent, and enduring’. To achieve this, from the outset he has collaborated with only the best.
Andile Dyalvane is one of Africa’s most original and renowned ceramicists who has exhibited extensively in Denmark, France, the US and Taiwan. In 2016, he had a solo exhibition at the Freidman Bender Gallery in New York and has work in permanent collections in museums from Cape Town to Taipei. He is the designer of the Indigenus Bhaca planter:
Haldane Martin is a prolific industrial designer specializing in furniture and interior design. He believes that iconic design must marry innovation, beauty, relevance and timelessness. He seamlessly integrates indigenous craft, bio-mimicry and sustainable production with modern technology and digital design into his award-winning work.
Haldane crated the Tuber design, the strength of which is derived from individual cut pieces of wood bolted together internally with stainless steel pins and hand-assembled into a pleasing bulbous form. Haldane was inspired by nature when he created the design which, as the name implies, sits as if rooted in the ground:
Yabu Pushelberg have been named among the world’s most influential design studios by Wallpaper, Dezeen, Elle Decor, Hospitality Design and the Business of Fashion. Working around the world, the studio found it difficult to find quality, sophisticated planters to utilize in their projects. This need became the motivation to develop Pebble with Indigenus. The Pebble design is characterized by its soft organic form that follows an asymmetrical design with a beautiful play on negative space. Inspired by nature, the partnership between Yabu Pushelberg and Indigenus sought to honor this muse by celebrating the amorphous forms found in nature, translating the soft forms into a family of concrete planters. The Pebble contributes in abundance to the look and feel of any space.”
German designer Sebastian Herkner’s designs for the world’s top brands have won awards that are too many to list. He was awarded the Elle Décor International Designer of the Year for 2021 (Edida). His love for traditional craftsmanship coupled with a natural affinity for colors, authentic materials and textures, and his curiosity for different cultures, meant that this collaboration was a natural fit. Following his honeymoon to South Africa, Sebastian was inspired by all the aspects, elements and shades he encountered. The Aarde (which means earth) is a representation of this; of the layering that exists culturally, demographically and in the nature and light of Africa. The Aarde has subtly overlapping layers with different depths to create the play with light and minerality that Sebastian saw in the natural landscape and wanted to represent. The earthy colors (brown,red, sandstone) used in this range are very much part of the story Sebastian wanted to communicate.”
We love that Indigenus planters are created by such a diverse group of designers, artists and architects. Each of them brings something special and personal to the collection. Understanding the inspiration behind the designs gives each planter its own story. These are more than just planters, they are sculptural pieces of art and architectural devices that can transform any indoor or outdoor space.
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