MBOISA: West African patterning meets sculptural furniture design

Kassena Town Cabinets is a distinctive range of sculptural, hand-painted cabinets by Johannesburg-based product design company, Dokter and Misses. Inspired by the patterned homes of the Kassena people in West Africa, the range makes up a “village” of cabinets, featuring four different designs titled, Watchtower, Sleep, Horseman, and Home.

For South African textile designer Sindiso Khumalo, the distinctive, ornamental pieces represent an interesting combination of art, design and function. Khumalo reveals her reason for nominating the furniture collection for Design Indaba’s Most Beautiful Object in South Africa (MBOISA) 2016:

It redefines what is beautiful and what is beautiful in Africa, and what is African design now.