New Togolese contemporary art centre the Palais de Lomé has opened with a retrospective of one of its nation's creative stars, the industrial designer Kossi Aguessy, who died in 2017 at just 40 years of age.
Aguessy was a graduate of London's Central Saint Martins design school who started his own eponymous studio and worked with the likes of Philippe Starck, the Coca Cola Company, Stella McCartney and Renault.
The Infinity exhibition showcases his aesthetic, which curator Sandra Agbessi describes as "futuristic, multicultural and polymorphic". It also mourns the loss of a huge talent who helped to make West African creativity visible on the global stage.

With limited records to draw on, Agbessi had to track down the designer's former collaborators from around the world to assemble the pieces in Infinity, and said they were all effusive in their praise for the designer. "I never heard people talking about an artist like they were talking about Kossi," she told Dezeen. "Whereas many designers would send a sketch and be done with a project, "Kossi was present from day one", she continued.
As part of the exhibition, the Palais de Lomé produced a short film, with international names such as designer Ross Lovegrove reflecting on Aguessy's legacy.
In it he says that the designer's early death, from cancer, is particularly tragic because "he would have been a world-class ambassador...in this time when Africa is getting its prestige back a...