Haldane Martin

Haldane Martin is a trained industrial designer with over two decades’ experience working as a furniture designer. He established his design brand Haldane Martin furniture in 2002, and in 2011 evolved the business to include an interior design consultancy, as Haldane Martin Iconic Design.

Born in Johannesburg in 1970, Haldane had a passion for design and making things from an early age, shaping his own skateboards, sailboards and surfboards as a teenager. This led to studying industrial design at the then-Cape Technikon – now Cape Peninsula University of Technology. He graduated in 1992.

Through running his own design firm Brave New World from 1994 to 2002, to establishing his current furniture and interior design company, Haldane Martin has earned a reputation as a foremost South African designer.

The Haldane Martin brand is also growing a name as an interior design consultancy. Haldane’s 20-year experience in furniture design has set him apart as an interior designer. His keen understanding of how things are built lends a higher level of innovation. His honed skills enable him to create and execute high-concept interior elements that capture and express each client’s unique identity in an iconic way at the same time as solving complex functional design challenges.

For Haldane, a design is intuitively recognised as iconic when it marries innovation with beauty and captures the zeitgeist of the day in a timeless fashion. He believes in integrating conceptual depth, aesthetic beauty and elegant functionality into one seamless whole.