Shawn Adams is an architect, writer, and lecturer who currently teaches at Central St Martins, UAL and the Architectural Association. Shawn trained as an architect at The Royal College of Art, Architectural Association and University of Portsmouth. He is also the co-founder of the socially-minded design practice Power Out of Restriction.
The six-legged Serwaa lounge chair is a contemporary take on the traditional West African Lobi chair. Originally designed by the Lobi people of present-day Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and‘this traditional stool has different variants. Some have three legs, some four, some six' explains Giles Tettey Nartey, the British-Ghanaian, designer, architect and PhD researcher.
Nartey believes that the design community often reveres 20th-century furniture as the pinnacle of industrial design with its clean lines and clever use of metal. Serwaa aims to take a traditional West African object and create a modern chair that receives the same level of appreciation as its 20th-century counterparts.
Serwaa forms part of the architect’s current PhD research, which explores domestic rituals in West Africa. Through projects like this, Nartey is advancing the global design discourse, elevating West African craft, culture, and traditions, and ensuring African design receives the respect and recognition it deserves.
Receive our daily digest of inspiration, escapism and design stories from around the world direct to your inbox. In 2023, POoR won the London Design Festival’s Emerging Design Medal. Shawn writes for numerous international magazines about global architecture and design and aims to platform the voices of those living across the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa.
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