The Montebello Design Centre is a non-profit art and craft space established in 1993 and located in Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa.
Described on 6 May 1652 as a, "fine, large forest of very tall, straight growing trees"[4] these lands were the hunting and grazing grounds of the Khoisan Cochoqua people.
After passing through several owners, Daniel Cloete built the existing homestead in about 1875 that later became the South African College School's Michaelis House.
[citation needed] The adjacent face brick stables currently housing the Montebello Design Centre were built in about 1880.
[10] Prior to returning to South Africa, Cecil Michaelis' 1935 founding of Rycotewood College for the arts and skilled associated trades in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, had convinced him an equivalent institution sited at Montebello would succeed in a country where much creative expression was still seen as derivative.