Themed 'The Home of Great Ideas', this year’s show promises visitors a wealth of inspiration in everything from fabrics, furnishings and décor accessories to bold new innovations in kitchens, bathrooms and home DIY.

Trade registration for complimentary access to Decorex Cape Town is open on their website. Architects, designers, decorators and professionals from all related industries are invited to register now in order to receive regular updates about the build up to Decorex Cape town and free entrance to the exhibition itself.

Some of the city’s leading designers and decorators will be participating in Decorex Cape Town, guaranteeing trade visitors a taste of the latest décor and design trends.

Commenting on the line up of design features, Lisa Aspeling of co-sponsor Caesarstone said that Decorex Cape Town had become an essential destination for members of the décor and architecture trade: “There is simply no other opportunity like this, for designers, decorators, architects and builders to find all the latest products and trends under one roof.”

Look out for these trend updates at Decorex Cape Town:

Always ahead of the curve when it comes to the latest paint trends and how they reflect our changing lifestyle, Plascon’s 2015 Colour Palette will once again be launched to the Cape Town market at Decorex Cape Town. The paint giant, which is co-headline sponsor of Decorex SA with Caesarstone, will provide invaluable insight into the hottest hues and coolest combos that lie ahead, plus ideas for using funky new paint techniques that are making a big splash this year.

Caesarstone, South Africa’s leading manufacturer and supplier of engineered stone surfaces, will be showcasing the latest in kitchen surface design and technology. Their transitional industrial design kitchen has been inspired by the Caesarstone exhibit in Milan last year and its unusual length and cut-out assembly design is certain to be a talking point. Their stand’s industrial feel, inspired by the colours of concrete, will be the ideal platform for Caesarstone’s new muted colour additions.

The Private Property Trend House, sponsored by the country’s definitive online property resource, and dressed by three of Cape Town’s top designers is set to be a showstopper. An interactive house-scape comprising a bedroom, a fully fitted en-suite bathroom and kitchen, and an open-plan lounge and dining room leading onto a home office and patio, the installation presents the ultimate walk-through design experience. Property experts will also be on hand to supply visitors with the very latest market-related facts and figures and give them hands-on advice for finding the home of their dreams.

This year’s Designer Spotlight showcase features Woodstock based designer Sarah Ord, who will put her trademark quirky-eclectic, colour-saturated design style to work in a vivacious installation decorated in the very latest products from the stylish Home Fabrics range of materials and wallpapers.

2015’s biggest kitchen trends, not to mention the very latest state-of-the-art products and appliances, will be on show in the Franke Make it Wonderful Kitchen Design Project, sponsored by one of the world’s leading kitchen-systems suppliers. Here, Cape Town’s top kitchen designers will create four very unique kitchens, giving practical application to new directions in ergonomics, greening, space efficiency and more.

100% Black will be an installation-showcase for 100% Design South Africa, which launched to unprecedented success in 2014 and will again take place alongside Decorex Joburg in 2015. 100% Black at Decorex Cape Town will be a curated collection of the finest design in this season’s most important colour – put together by 100% Design South Africa’s programmes director Cathy O’Clery. In selecting contemporary design pieces void of colour, O’Clery says she’ll be focusing on how good form, shape, line and structure play an integral part in the design thinking and creative process.

The most intimate and personal of all the rooms in the home is given romantic reinvention in the Beautiful Boudoirs feature, where three of Cape Town’s leading female decorators will apply a light, feminine touch to produce a trio of the most impossibly dreamy sanctuaries for slumber, ever.

As an incubator for emerging creative talent, Decorex SA is committed to corporate social investment and, this year, joins forces with Inscape Education Group, South Africa’s oldest, privately owned multi-disciplinary creative institution, to present the Spotlight on Talent showcase. Three of Inscape’s most promising third-year students will be given the opportunity to showcase their stand-out design talents, with the Decorex Cape Town platform giving them the opportunity to gauge the market-suitability of their products.

Combining the love of all things handmade with the joy of making your own, Craft & Create will be the ultimate marketplace for artisans, crafters and smaller local exhibitors. Visitors will be treated to a wide choice of limited-edition pieces, thrifty finds and wise buys and, because traders are drawn predominantly from Cape Town and its surrounds, Craft & Create will be a truly local affair.

Event: Decorex Cape Town
Venue: Cape Town International Convention Centre
Dates: Friday, 24 to Monday, 27 April
Time: 10:00 to 19:00 daily (18:00 on Monday)

Tickets cost R80 for adults; R70 for trade, pensioners and scholars; and R15 for kids under 12-years-old.

For more information, email [email protected] or visit www.decorex.co.za. Alternatively, visit and like Decorex SA’s Facebook page and follow them on Twitter.

Decorex Cape Town forms part of the Decorex SA portfolio and is owned by Thebe Reed Exhibitions.