Nikolai and Simon Haas, odd brothers from Los Angeles, continue their aesthetic movement. For the Design Triennale “Beauty”, at the Coopere Hewitt Museum in New York, they collaborated with “the Haas sisters” (a group of women artisans from Khayelitsha, a suburb of Cape Town, who earned the nickname thanks to their work with the brothers), to create a collection of colourful hybrid characters. They were a mix between animals and imaginary creatures, beaded fabric, expertly executed works like the rainbow-striped stocky pony, covered in tiny beads, or the joining of a pig to a cat in pink pearls, with a metal beak and two, large yellow ears. The desecrating designs of the Haas brothers causes the traditional South African skill to lose its ethnicity and enter a new playful and visionary dimension.