HALDANE MARTIN established in 2002, is a contemporary furniture design company based in Cape Town, South Africa. The collection consists of over 30 unique furniture pieces, all originally designed and produced locally. Haldane creates a small number of new pieces each year which are exclusively manufactured by HALDANE MARTIN.

HALDANE MARTIN has won a number of design awards, the most recent being the Real Simple SA - Green Innovation Award (Design) 2008, and the prestigious SABS DISA award for Zulu Mama 2007.

The furniture has been exhibited in Madrid, London, Paris, New York, Copenhagen, Oslo, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. The furniture has been featured extensively in the local press and international design publications. The most recent being DESIRE, an international hardcover design book published by Gestalten. Haldane was also a guest speaker on the main stage at the International Design Indaba Conference in 2007.

The furniture is specified for high end, domestic and hospitality interiors worldwide, for example the acclaimed desert retreat, Little Kulala in Namibia, and the Emirates VIP Lounges at OR Tambo Airport. The furniture can be purchased online or through select interior design businesses and boutique retailers in South Africa, Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, Canada and USA.

The furniture manufacturing is outsourced to specialized component engineers and furniture manufacturers all over South Africa. The marketing, sales, outsourcing, quality control, assembly and logistics, is managed by a team of nine at the studio / showroom / warehouse in Woodstock, Cape Town.

Owner / director / designer - Haldane Martin was born in Johannesburg in 1970, qualified as an Industrial Designer in 1992 and is father to four beautiful children.