Saturday, June 24, 2017

DETOUR: AFRICAN MARKET SIGNS


UNTIL FOFANA MADE THEM HIS SPRINGBOARD, IT TOOK AN ACCIDENT TO COME ACROSS THEM  

"My parents brought it back from a trip to Africa," says the doctor whose office this sign adorns: 

Mathilde Kemula, 35 rue de Sahel, 12th

"These canes were part of the assortment of a collector who had lived in Africa," an antiquarian explains:

La Galerie Jantzen 
18 rue de Beaune,7th

"I found them when cleaning out an attic in Alsace," the founder of the recently-founded tea shop across the street from Maison Château Rouge admits:

La Régulière
43 rue Myrha

To my knowledge, such signs appear by calculation only in a restaurant whose decor Fofana created:

Monique Wells, Another Soul Restaurant in Paris (Baba Soul, 10th), "Entry to Black Paris" 

By highlighting an overlooked art 
he launched an idiom that is direct, humanistic and fun.

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