AFRICAN SOURCES OF INSPIRATION

AFRICAN ARTS ARE SACRED ABSTRACTIONS, BASED ON GEOMETRY AND COLOR

          Nubian pyramids at Meroe, toward 1200 BC / zoom

     Great Mosque, Porto Novo (Bénin), early 20th century / zoom

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Importers propose only a limited selection of crafts that greatly vary.and store displays are often self-conscious:

At the Galeries Lafayette department store

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At La Goutte d'Or the African style is both unique and natural.

For designers please click here, here, here, here, and here,

and for the street here and here... 

...and in new boutiques of La Goutte d'Or.  Otherwise one finds it...

• In pop-up exhibits...

• In five or six specialized boutiques, which usually show the same imported wares. Those Parisians cannot bear the mark-up on goods that have no recognized label.

• Markets:

"Marché Maison Blanche," avenue d'Italie, 13th 

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Alex, at marché Bastille   

Cameroun's Jeannine Sike-Ngangue, at the Bastille and porte de Vincennes markets

• By personal contact. Jeannine made these lampshades on special order for me, for the same cost as that of an ordinary store. 

Procedure: Email a photo of the spot where you will place the lampshade. Jeannine will rapidly send a proposal. You go on from there.

Her contact: liègepapier@gmail.com / 33 (0)6 65 11 06 88

The stripes differ slightly on each side.

• By Internet, as Mali's Lamine Kouyaté couture for XULY.bët. Or by open house or appointment.

Web site

Discover a great medieval trade and pilgrimage route at the same time.

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Modern African creativity is noticed at last...

A five-page article from the New York Times, November 2023

...though saying "THE" artists when they are innumerable

shows an ignorance all the deeper in that it is unaware.

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