Ardmore Sabie Forest Dawn velvet pillows from South Africa

“Sabie Forest” encapsulates the vibrancy and richness of the bush. Fée and the Ardmore design team allowed their imagination to work with the beautiful rich and detailed patterned plant and animal motifs found on Ardmore ceramic surfaces to weave through into this design. Mischievous monkeys hang off of elephants’ trunks, giraffe and snakes mingle amid patterned reeds and foliage, and an elusive striped and spotted King Cheetah cavorts through a leafy glen.

Size:24″ x 24″

Down/feather insert included
Fabric: velvet

Color: Dawn
Made by Ardmore inJohannesburg, South Africa


The Ardmore SabieCollection

In August 2018 Feé Halsted set off to the Kruger National Park to unwind and recharge her slightly frazzled batteries. Nothing is more salutary and exciting than nestling in the bush to ignite the imagination and restore one’s faith in humanity and rekindle the spirit.

She “glamped” in rondavel huts in the lower Sabie, a dense lush region of the park, in which trees, plants and bushes abound watered by the great Sabie River where its vegetation draws large varieties of birds and game to drink, bathe and fish. The area is a never ending tapestry of camouflaged beasts where light, sound and movement and colour shift and change.

Ardmore Artists have never come into close contact with the fauna and flora they represent and we are charmed by their earnest and naive rendering which is similar to the paintings of French artist Henri Rousseau. It is this earnest depiction of our African fauna and flora that we so valued and enjoyed.