British-Ghanaian designer Giles Tettey Nartey has used welded aluminium to craft his Serwaa chair, which reinterprets the traditional wooden Lobi stool native to West Africa as an "industrial product".
Referencing well-known industrial-style chairs such as the Barcelona Chair by Mies van der Rohe, the piece by Tettey Nartey aims to platform the common yet "overlooked" Lobi chair by reframing it in a modern context.
Giles Tettey Nartey has created an industrial-style aluminium chair
"I take my practice as, in some ways, reframing something which is so common and revealing the qualities that I find really important," Tettey Nartey told Dezeen. "How do you take this traditional Lobi stool, and actually frame it as if it's ? which I think it is ? as significant as these Mies van der Rohe chairs [for example]"" "I think the shift in materiality tries to investigate this ? what does a traditional Lobi stool look like as an industrial product""
The piece reimagines a traditional West African stool
The Serwaa chair is defined by its low, sweeping metal structure and features a split seat that is composed of two identical elements that slope backwards, angling the user skyward.
Constructed solely from welded aluminium sheets, the piece features a refined composition outlined by curved and angular forms.

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