Preview - An Accra Home, Reimagined

My client had spent fifteen years in Paris before returning to build the house he always intended to build. He had a particular problem: he needed a home that could hold both versions of himself — the Ghanaian who had grown up in Osu, and the man who had spent fifteen years in the 11th arrondissement.

I started with the textiles. I work with a collective of weavers in Kumasi who produce Kente cloth in non-traditional colourways — deep indigo and charcoal, soft terracotta and stone — and these became the connective tissue of the project. Against them I placed pieces I know from Europe: a Prouvé chair, a Charlotte Perriand shelf, a Noguchi lamp.

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