Twelve leading African ceramic artists and designers blend ancient traditions and progressive approaches at Southern Guild’s exhibition. The showcase comprised furniture, sculpture and vessels intertwining mythologies and rituals with new techniques, timeless patterns and contemporary narratives.
Tables that dream of being lights, weird creatures from another planet, a glittering disco chair, and a clay celebration of African womanhood… We picked seven bold and surreal furniture designs in Miami.
Design Miami 2021 focuses on human-based projects. From ceramic vessels reinterpreting the African diaspora to ‘floral’ cabinets exploring ideas of ephemerality, decay, and more.
Molecules, ‘Magodi’ hairstyles and heroic grandmas inspired South African designers launching African-pop furnitures in Miami.
