Founded in 2016, Mash.T Design Studio creates lighting and furniture that sit between the sculptural and the functional. The studio cultivates archival gestures, engaging craft lineages and material intelligence as living systems. Working closely with master artisans across South Africa, Mash.T develops original designs shaped by memory, process, and technique, inviting slower looking and deeper engagement. The studio’s work forms part of the permanent collections at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs at the Louvre and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.




Featuring new prototypes by Mash.T and TheUrbanative, 'The Totemic Field' positions modularity not only as a functional system, but as a philosophy of circularity, collaboration, and expressive African design. Curated with Hoven, each piece stands as a vessel of memory and intention, shaped by material, labour, and the many hands involved in its making.