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The Trade

Flowers, fruit, clothing, vegetables. Selling where the people already are, and the arrangement of a stall as a piece of design done by hand every morning.

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ProvincesGauteng · Western Cape

PlacesCape Town Central · Joubert Street

Flower sellers’ stalls on Adderley Street, Cape Town: cut flowers and greenery standing in buckets along the pavement.

Cape Town Central · WCPT_001·WC

The stall is designed every morning

Flowers, buckets, and a layout that has to work in one glance from a moving car.

The TradeDiscott · CC BY-SA 3.0

A market clothing stall under a white canopy, with a red and black patterned shirt and a purple dress on a rack.

Cape Town Central · WCPT_005·WC

The canopy is the architecture

At Greenmarket the stall is a roof, a rack and a colour decision, and that is the entire building.

The TradeMatti Blume · CC BY-SA 4.0

A street vendor’s fruit stall with bananas, apples, oranges, pineapples and woven baskets in Joubert Street, Johannesburg.

Joubert Street, Johannesburg · GPPT_008·GP

The table is the shop

Fruit, baskets and a pavement in Joubert Street. No lease, no till, no closing time.

The TradeOssewa · CC BY-SA 4.0