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Horseman Bench, from Kassena Town series
This is a Horseman bench. It was designed by Dokter and Misses, Adriaan Hugo and Katy Taplin.
This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Southern Guild and Adriaan Hugo and Dokter and Misses and Katy Taplin as part of Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial.
Dokter and Misses reimages powerful images from African culture in their furniture pieces, which display bold lines and rich geometrical patterning. This bench, from Kassena Town series, is inspired by the intricately painted adobe homes of the Kassena people of northern Ghana and Burkina Faso. Featuring surprising openings, drawers, and secret compartments, the bench is designed in the round with no front or back sides. Hand-painted graphics meld with three-dimensional form.
It is credited Courtesy of Dokter and Misses.
- Book Cover, African Sleeping Sickness
- 22.8 × 32 cm (9 × 12 5/8 in.).
- Gift of Steven Heller.
- 1996-74-156
- Java Textile, from the Tell collection
- cotton.
- Gift of Vlisco Netherlands B.V..
- 2017-57-10
- Strip (Ghana)
- silk, rayon, or cotton.
- Gift of Mrs Calvin W. Stillman.
- 1969-11-2-h
Our curators have highlighted 10 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- Bogolanfini Woman's Wrapper (Mali)
- cotton.
- Museum purchase from The Grodzins Fund for Textile Acquisition.
- 2000-22-1
- Cabinet, from Engineering Temporality series
- welded and burned steel rings.
- Courtesy of Tuomas Markunpoika.
- 9.2015.1
- Bogolanfini Woman's Wrapper (Mali)
- cotton.
- Museum purchase from The Grodzins Fund for Textile Acquisition.
- 2000-22-2
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 165 × 83 × 165 cm (5 ft. 4 15/16 in. × 32 11/16 in. × 5 ft. 4 15/16 in.)
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial.
