{"id":135045,"date":"2021-05-26T13:40:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/products\/akosua-afriyie-kumi-weaves-change-with-pendant-fixtures\/"},"modified":"2022-12-22T15:09:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T20:09:57","slug":"akosua-afriyie-kumi-weaves-change-with-pendant-fixtures","status":"publish","type":"id_product","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/products\/akosua-afriyie-kumi-weaves-change-with-pendant-fixtures\/","title":{"rendered":"Akosua Afriyie-Kumi Weaves Change with Pendant Fixtures"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/Interior-Design-idx_AAK_portrait_3-05.21.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\" src=https://interiordesign.net/"data:image//gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==/" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption>&ldquo;Our goal is to aid in the economic livelihoods of refugee artisans,&rdquo; the designer, pictured here, shares. Photography courtesy of AAKS.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ghanaian fashion designer Akosua Afriyie-Kumi is the founder of covetable woven handbag brand <a href=https://interiordesign.net/"https:////www.aaksonline.com///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AAKS<\/a>. Now, she introduces a new weaving project&mdash;part of the UNHCR Made51 initiative&mdash;to protect and support refugee artisans in neighboring Burkina Faso. Her pendant fixtures seek to preserve the basketry techniques of Northern Mali&#8217;s Tuareg community, of whom some live as refugees in Burkina Faso. The basket lids Tuareg and Fulani\/Peulh women make to cover food platters are re&shy;imagined as pendant shades with diameters ranging between 10 and 21 inches. There&rsquo;s Oude, Bella, and Ihaya, all of which combine colorful organically dyed cotton yarn and natural straw. Ihaya&rsquo;s large, flat planetary shape suggests boundlessness, a symbolic projection of the Tuareg life and travels through the Sahara. It&rsquo;s finished off with a bronze cup, hammered by hand in a pattern that is the trademark of the individual artisan. &ldquo;We want to create well-designed objects,&rdquo; Afriyie-Kumi says, &ldquo;that embody original ideas.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/Interior-Design-AAKS-pendant-idx210501_market39-05.21.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\" src=https://interiordesign.net/"data:image//gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==/" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption><span>Photography courtesy of AAKS.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/Interior-Design-AAKS-pendant-idx210501_market40-05.21.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\" src=https://interiordesign.net/"data:image//gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==/" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption><span>Photography courtesy of AAKS.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/Interior-Design-AAKS-pendant-idx210501_market37-05.21.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\" src=https://interiordesign.net/"data:image//gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==/" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption>The Oude.&nbsp;<span>Photography courtesy of AAKS.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/Interior-Design-AAKS-pendant-idx210501_market38-05.21.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\" src=https://interiordesign.net/"data:image//gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==/" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption>The Bella.&nbsp;<span>Photography courtesy of AAKS.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sdg-migration-id.s3.amazonaws.com\/Interior-Design-AAKS-pendant-idx210501_market36-05.21.jpg\" alt=\"\" caption=\"true\" src=https://interiordesign.net/"data:image//gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==/" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption>The Ihaya.&nbsp;<span>Photography courtesy of AAKS.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span>Ghanaian fashion designer Akosua Afriyie-Kumi&nbsp;<span>introduces a new weaving project&mdash;part of the UNHCR Made51 initiative.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3527,"featured_media":135052,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_image_focal_point":[],"legacy_django_id":19103},"tags":[6686],"id_tax_domain":[155,16],"id_tax_product":[46],"id_tax_program":[],"id_issue":[],"internal_flag":[4220],"class_list":["post-135045","id_product","type-id_product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-sponsored","id_tax_domain-homes","id_tax_domain-residential","id_tax_product-lighting"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Akosua Afriyie-Kumi Weaves Change with Pendant Fixtures - Interior Design<\/title>\n
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