Gregory Mellor Design wins prestigous Andrew Martin Award
Our client and Cape Town interior design firm, Gregory Mellor Design, was announced as the winner of the prestigious Andrew Martin International Interior Designer of the Year Award 2023. To celebrate this extraordinary achievement, Andrew Martin’s founder, Martin Waller, presented the Award at an exclusive ceremony in Johannesburg on 7th November.
After local design luminary Stephen Falcke in 1999, Gregory Mellor is just the second South African (and African) designer to win the Award, making this a momentous accomplishment for the African design community. From luxurious game lodges in East Africa to laid back holiday homes in the Pacific, Gregory has dedicated himself to timeless human-centric design, creating sumptuous, but unaffected spaces for everyday living.
Reflecting on being awarded the coveted Andrew Martin Interior Designer of the Year Award, Mellor says: “It is undoubtedly a crowning accomplishment to be acknowledged with this wonderful and esteemed accolade, and for us to humbly join the ranks of our long-admired design heroes. We are genuinely pinching ourselves in disbelief… and we are thrilled. It is also an opportunity to showcase what the interior design community can achieve here at the southern tip of Africa and, importantly, to be able to help shine a light on the incredible workmanship and quality of the suppliers and workshops with whom we collaborate.”
Founded in 1996 by Martin Waller of esteemed global design house Andrew Martin, the Andrew Martin Interior Designer of the Year award is the highest honour an interior designer can achieve on an international level. Celebrating the globe’s most talented and extraordinary interior designers, the likes of icons Kelly Hoppen, Axel Vervoordt, Thomas Pheasant, Nicky Haslam and Jamie Drake, it’s no surprise that the Award has come to be known informally as the design world’s Oscars.