Launched in 2008, South African design hub Southern Guild has created a fair of their own -- GUILD -- in their native Cape Town. Here, the Lala Surma I and II drink cabinets from Joburg-based Dokter and Misses
Imagination Tool Cabinet by Daphna Laurens at Gallery S. Bensimon
Sideboard by Jorge Moura, presented at Nakkash Gallery
For his Split Chair (exhibited by Beijing's Gallery ALL), designer Zhoujie Zhang uses a simple algorithm to reconfigure the chair's complex facets to any desired scale
Zaha Hadid was fairly omnipresent at the fair, one of the few true "starchitects" in evidence: besides this Liquid Glacial Table for David Gill Galleries, she had a set of vases for Wiener Silber Manufactur and lighting for Zumtobel
Faceted box at the Crafts Council, by Andrea Walsh
Emphasizing sustainability, simplicity, and a certain distinctly Parisian sense of elegance, design retailer Gallery S. Bensimon presented fellow French outfit Design POOL's lacquered-metal Circle Armchair
The wood (steam-bent, as designer Massimo Faison points out, "like Thonet chairs") can support a bird of prey, a tossed-off jacket, or just an admiring regard; the minder of the fair's falcon kept it hooded and well-fed with mice meat
Adam Goodrum's Birdsmouth Table, on show at Broached Commissions' stand
Dubai's own Aljoud Lootah operated her own booth at DDD. Her felt-lined Oru series was inspired, she said, by origami