The week might have been about women, but on Thursday night at the 100% Design Awards at Gallagher Convention Centre it was mostly men who took home the gongs.
The local design industry's nod to excellence, the awards form part of the premier exhibition and sourcing platform of the same name which runs alongside Decorex Joburg until 6pm today.
Gregor Jenkin of Cape Town deservedly scooped best product design and the top South African designer of the year awards for his thoughtful yet functional designs. Other winners included Houtlander's Phillip Hollander and Stephen Wilson for furniture design, and hipster-cool husband and wife Adriaan Hugo and Katy Taplin of Dokter and Misses for best lighting.
The brains behind the awards and the exhibition are design specialists Laurence Brick and Cathy O'Clery, the latter sporting a plastic cast walker on her left foot.What happened, I ask, to which Cathy explains that she was helping clean up the dishes at a friend's party recently and toppled over, fracturing her foot in three places.
Ouch!
Elsewhere I spot the who's who of the design crowd, with Marianne Fassler having joined the blue-rinse set with her signature dreads dyed indigo; always chic magazine girl Leigh Robertson, who is now at Elle Decoration; and the hottest interior decorator right now, Donald Nxumalo.
Trends guru Dion Chang is standing with Malawian-born artist Billie Zangewa, who uses rich textiles to create hypnotic tapestries of strong African women.
Always a mine of knowledge, Dion tells me Billie is off to exhibit at the prestigious Frieze contemporary art fair in London in October - with the Tate Modern one of her confirmed bookings.
With the British gallery having upped its acquisitions of modern and contemporary African art a few years ago, wouldn't it be nice to see a silk Zangewa hanging on its hallowed walls soon?..