Black Friday · Bali collection and children’s sets up to 29% off until 30 November
ARTESSYFURNITURE STUDIOVisit the studio
Interior design · Cape Town

Interiors with
a story.

Artessy designs and furnishes interiors for homes, holiday rentals, guesthouses, boutique hotels, lodges and restaurants.

We build each space around natural and reclaimed wood, handmade Bali craft and furniture painted by Only Mpofu, so it feels warm, personal and unlike anywhere else.

Our interiors

Rooms we have
designed.

Boutique guesthouse · Camps Bay

A wall of painted wood slices

A garden suite designed and furnished by Artessy. Outside, Only Mpofu painted the walls with tropical leaves that frame the doors to the room.

Inside, the bed wall is the heart of the suite: a shell headboard lit from behind, set between hundreds of round wood slices, cut and painted by hand. Only Mpofu also painted the sofa, and much of the furniture in the suite was made by hand by Artessy.

  • Tropical murals by Only Mpofu
  • Painted wood-slice feature wall
  • Sofa hand-painted by Only Mpofu
  • Handmade furniture
Boutique guesthouse · Camps Bay

Sea and sky on every wall

A guest room designed by Artessy, where the whole room becomes the view. Only Mpofu hand-painted the walls and ceiling as a beach under an open sky, with palm trees, distant mountains and seagulls overhead.

In the corner stands a lighthouse with softly lit niches, made by Artessy, as are the colourful painted bedside tables. A cane headboard and feather pendants complete the room.

  • Walls and ceiling painted by Only Mpofu
  • Lighthouse made by Artessy
  • Painted bedside tables by Artessy
Boutique guesthouse · Camps Bay

Kayaks above a carved bed

A light-filled guest room designed by Artessy around the ocean. Two kayaks hang from the ceiling, strung with bare bulbs, and manta rays made of wood glide across the wall.

A carved four-poster bed in washed blue stands at the centre, with weathered timber posts, a carved wooden wardrobe and a glass-topped table on sculptural natural wood. In the bathroom, a log-framed mirror and woven pendants carry the beach feeling through.

  • Kayaks as ceiling lights
  • Wooden manta rays
  • Carved four-poster bed
Boutique guesthouse · Camps Bay

Driftwood art and a sea view

A sea-view guest room designed by Artessy, with a shark shaped from driftwood swimming across the wall.

The headboard is built from weathered wooden doors around a riveted blue panel, and the bed rests on blue-painted pallets. Macramé pendants, blue cane chairs and distressed cabinets keep the room relaxed and close to the beach.

  • Driftwood shark
  • Weathered-wood headboard
  • Sea view
Boutique guesthouse · Camps Bay

Surfboards on the walls

A surf-inspired guest room designed by Artessy, with the sea in view from the bed. Surfboards line the walls, one hangs from the ceiling with woven pendants, and a swordfish made of wood leaps across the wall.

A weathered-wood headboard, a bamboo feature wall, an old travel trunk and a vanity with a porthole mirror complete the room.

  • Surfboard wall
  • Wooden swordfish
  • Sea view
Boutique guesthouse · Camps Bay

A wall of weathered timber

A calm guest room designed by Artessy, with a full wall of weathered timber planks rising behind the dressing table, and fish shaped from driftwood swimming across the opposite wall.

A carved wooden wardrobe with lattice doors, a painted triple-mirror vanity, a cane bench and woven pendants complete the room.

  • Weathered-timber feature wall
  • Driftwood fish
  • Carved wardrobe
Boutique guesthouse · Camps Bay

Old doors as a headboard

A sea-view guest room designed by Artessy that opens onto the pool. The headboard is a pair of old wooden doors, kept with their iron hinges and straps, set against a bamboo wall.

Blue louvred doors slide across to the bathroom, and woven pendants, a painted console and tropical cushions keep the room bright and relaxed.

  • Old-door headboard
  • Louvred sliding doors
  • Sea and pool view
Boutique guesthouse · Camps Bay

A dome above the ocean

A glamping dome on a timber deck above the sea, designed by Artessy. Its wide window frames the ocean from the bed.

Inside, a wall of white-washed branches and a live-edge timber headboard frame the bed, which rests on wooden pallets. Raffia pendants, carved wooden lanterns and a colourful painted chest of drawers keep the dome warm and playful.

  • Branch wall and live-edge headboard
  • Carved wooden lanterns
  • Ocean view
Boutique guesthouse · Camps Bay

A desert mural in a dome

A glamping dome designed by Artessy around a desert mural of cacti, agave and Joshua trees, which forms the wall behind the bed.

Above it, a sleeping loft is edged with rope rails and carved wooden posts that glow with light. A cane headboard, painted bedside tables and wooden lanterns finish the room.

  • Desert mural
  • Loft with lit rope rails
  • Carved wooden lanterns
Boutique guesthouse · Camps Bay

Blue shutters and palm leaves

A bright sea-view guest room designed by Artessy. Old louvred shutters, painted sky blue, stand side by side to form a wide headboard behind the bed.

A palm-leaf wallpaper wall, a louvred wardrobe and console, rattan pendants and painted bedside tables bring the garden indoors, and the doors open to a balcony facing the sea and the mountain.

  • Shutter headboard
  • Palm-leaf feature wall
  • Sea and mountain view
Boutique guesthouse · Camps Bay

Painted shutters and terrace murals

A set of guest rooms designed by Artessy around old louvred shutters, painted in layered colours and fixed side by side as headboards. Rattan pendants draped with ferns hang above the beds.

Outside, Only Mpofu hand-painted the terrace walls with African scenes, from a savanna sunset to dancers and women carrying pots, looking out over the sea and Lion's Head.

  • Painted shutter headboards
  • Fern-draped pendants
  • Terrace murals by Only Mpofu
  • Sea and Lion's Head view
What we do

From an empty room
to a finished space.

Design concept

A look and feel for your space: the layout, colours, materials and key pieces, agreed with you before anything is made or delivered.

Furnishing & styling

Furniture, lighting, mirrors, art and décor chosen to work together, then placed and styled in the room.

Bespoke in wood

Tables, bars and lighting made for your space in our Cape Town studio, from reclaimed sleeper wood, natural roots and driftwood.

Signed art

Wardrobes, chests of drawers, mirrors, vases and art pieces hand-painted by Only Mpofu, chosen to give a room its focal point.

Guesthouses, hotels & lodges

Guest rooms, receptions, lounges, restaurants, bars and pool decks, designed for guests and for daily hospitality use.

Homes & holiday rentals

Living and dining rooms, bedrooms, terraces and pool areas that feel lived in from the first day.

Designed around our pieces

Character comes
from the pieces.

The full collection
How we work

From the first idea
to the last detail.

1. Tell us about your space

Send photos, plans or a few words about the rooms, how they will be used and your timing, by WhatsApp or email.

2. Concept & proposal

We visit the space or work from your photos and plans, then propose the layout, colours, materials and pieces, with their prices.

3. Make, deliver & style

Pieces are prepared in our studio, delivered and placed in the room. You are welcome to see them first at our Hout Bay studio, open Monday to Saturday, 9:00–18:00.

Start your interior project

Let’s design
your space.

Message the studio on WhatsApp

Prefer email? Write to info@artessy.co.za. Design fees are quoted for each project after a first conversation.