Hight Thorn is a South African luxury brand that mostly focused on creating beautiful bespoke chandeliers and lights, but also creates other furniture. High Thorn is located in Johannesburg South Africa and has been in business for more than 10 years. Some of their products feature in high end homes, safari lodges and hotels. The company strives to always push the design boundaries by coming up with new and exciting ways to produce unique luxury home pieces. High Thorn mainly makes use of wood and leather to create their products. They are focused on sustainability and supporting and improving the local environment.
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Their materials utilised are also locally soured as their wood are gathered from wood or tree dumps and gets another life before getting pulped. Their leather on the other hand from another local South African brand namely Thaderies. According to owner Georgia Anderson, each and every product they produce is unique as it is carefully crafted by hand and she claims that is this uniqueness and idea of having an exclusive one of a kind that generates desirability within their customers. Further High Thorn aims to achieve extreme quality within all products created – Georgia states that just because their materials used is recycled one must compromise on quality and is a characteristic that is deeply imbedded in their brand’s DNA.
Their employees work hours at end to prep the wood and debark them before getting sanded and treated with an insect repellent ensuring their products longevity. The wood then gets either used in its natural form or cut into slabs to create a softer type of chandelier. The leather gets tan before getting cut into log thin strips which would then be glued together to create their very popular ‘Urchin’ chandelier which imitates the body shape of this sea creature.
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Other materials that are also used by is natural seeds and smaller wooden beads. High Thorn is certainly to be watched for future growth and potential considering their daring and creative nature.
