Mixali

The Mixali brand started as an exploration of not only making South African luxury home products and exercising his passion for design but also to explore the idea of his identity. An exploration through design by the culmination of heritage, culture, home, society, race, and belonging.

Johannesburg-based design studio founded by Michael Constantinides (Cost) in 2020, the objective being South African inspired Luxury homeware products.

Michael Cost is a trained Architect, turned Content Creator and Digital Marketer. He comes from a long lineage of Greek and Cypriot Refugees that have been on the African continent for 5-6 Generations. From the motherland, his ancestors fled the Turkish and WWII invasions to Egypt. 3 Generations later his family fled Alexandria to Johannesburg, South Africa.

As a South African born into democracy, Michael Cost has always been intertwined with his Greek heritage and culture but also those cultures he was exposed to on a daily basis. The concept of ‘identity’ had always been one that was explored by him at an early age in order to understand what it is to be a Mediteranean African.

 

 

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