Design sensation Tristan du Plessis has added another accolade to his nightstand after recently being crowned Designer of the Year 2024!
South Africa (07 April 2024) — From the 2023 Restaurant and Bar Awards Best Club/Night Venue, Giselle Miami, to the popular Gorgeous George boutique hotel in Cape Town, and the instantly-recognisable and most sustainable restaurant in the world, FYN, to a penthouse suite designed in collaboration with Grammy Award-winning DJ Black Coffee – Tristan du Plessis’s stylish legacy is on show across the globe, making him one of the most famous creative talents to come out of South Africa.
This year, in an exciting addition to Du Plessis’s many accolades, the founder of the eponymous Cape Town and Johannesburg-based interior architecture firm has been selected as Decorex’s Designer of the Year for 2024—making him the Africa’s top designer.
“I feel honoured to be chosen as Designer of the Year 2024 as I have a strong connection to South Africa,” comments Du Plessis.
“Even though the majority of my work is international, I consciously choose to collaborate with South African furniture designers and craftsmen to bring my various projects to life, so to be honoured among these talented designers in my home country is certainly something I’m very excited about.”
Du Plessis’s studio was founded in 2015 with a strong focus on signature hospitality projects. The boutique design studio, which started in Johannesburg before expanding to Cape Town in 2022, has undertaken a slew of impressive local and international projects beyond those already mentioned, including Sān Dubai, a beach club inspired by and named after Africa’s first people, and Japanese-inspired local restaurant KōL Izakhaya.
Du Plessis’s selection as Designer of the Year 2024 marks another key moment in his illustrious career, further solidifying his status as a global creative force and as another example of South Africa taking the world by storm.
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