Gifts


Imbifinga Seed Placemats

Wonderfully bright placemats

from Mama Mudada in Mozambique

Available in these colours, and soon

a range we’ve designed in the fuchsia

and baby blue. Then of course the soothing

and natural  gray.


Fertility Dolls

An Afrocontempo take on

traditional West African

Akua Ba or Fertililty Dolls

created from used motor-

cycle parts. Green, fresh

and shiny. In two sizes



Horn Cuffs

New Batch of Horn Cuffs

From Recent Buying Trip

to Maputo. Also great as

votives


Afro Metallica

New Collection of Turned

Ebony Vessels in metallics

express the values of AfroFuturism

and help reinvent the cliches of

Mozambican Curios.

Various shapes and sizes



December Still Life

banana leaf sofa From Left: Jozi Tea Towels & Oven Gloves

by Yda Walt on bamboo ladder. Series of

paintings using donated clothing by Burkinabe artist

Hamed Ouattara. Three seater Banana Leaf Sofa

with Suzani pillows. Twig mirror, with incense burner on

Altar, Cowrie studded boxes and Chinese ancestor figure

‘Eclectic’ is such a dull, blanket term, who has a better one?


Brooches | Imiso

Beautiful Brooches

from Imiso, great

gifts @ R80 each



Baroque Frame | Cutlery Necklace

Baroque Frame (Lemon, Tangerine

Emerald and Black Available @ R190

and recycled cutlery necklace in Turquoise

and Russian Silver (Armenia)


Scarabe Chair | Waxprint Bag

Scarabe Chair by Hamed Ouattara

(Burkina Faso) recycled from Oil

Drums. Handbag by Adele Dejak

in Waxprint and Leather (Kenya)

Both from Design Network Africa

Program we recently curated with

Trevyn McGowan of Southern Guild



 

 
 
 
 
 
 


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