Cheick Diallo Samsara lounge seat chair sofa art limited edition very rare

  
Amazing art piece by Cheick Diallo: Samsara lounge seat/sofa. Made from recycled local materials: nylon fishing wire and metal. Samsara is a Sanskrit word for rebirth or renewal, which reflects Diallo's practice of transforming discarded materials into new creations. The chair is made with local Malian craftsmen skilled in blacksmithing, weaving, and other crafts. Only a dozen of these were ever made, and I believe this to be the only one currently for sale.

In overall very good condition though there are some areas where the metal under the nylon has rusted. And a couple of areas where the nylon has frayed a bit.

I will add more photos to show this. 43cm high, 91cm deep, 221cm wide.

Cheick Diallo was born in Mali in 1960. The son of an architect, he studied Architecture in L'Ecole d' architecture de Rouen, France. After graduating in 1994, he went on to further specialise in Industrial Design at the prestigious Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Creation Industrielle (ENSCI) based in Paris. He opened his studio in Bamako and has experimented with ideas and processes centred on producing objects and furniture locally. This has made him one the pioneers of contemporary experimental and conceptual design in Africa.

His work has been exhibited in and is part of many prestigious museums and institutions' collections such as the Brooklyn Museum (USA), Musee du Grand Hornu (Belgium), the National Centre for Art and Culture Georges Pompidou (Paris, France), the Manchester Museum of Art (Manchester UK) or the Museum of Art and Design in New York. His work has also been shown in international biennials, including Dak'Art Biennale (Senegal); Design Biennale, Liège (Belgium); Gwangju Biennale (Korea) and the Design Biennial in Saint-Étienne (France).