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Raffia on worn-out tyre
51 x 70 x 90 cm
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Dispatch time: 1-2 weeks.
Returns: No returns. If it arrives damaged, wrong or not as described, report it within 48 hours of delivery and Sokofa will put it right.
Handmade and one of a kind, so the rope banding and the symbol will differ slightly from the photograph. No dimensions are published here because the two sets of figures given for this table do not agree with each other. Please ask for the diameter and height before ordering if the fit matters.
Gye Nyame is the symbol on the table top, and it is the best known of all the Adinkra symbols of Ghana. The Akan phrase means Except God, and it is short for a longer saying, Obiara ntumi nku me, gye Nyame: nobody can kill me except God. It stands for the supremacy of God over everything else, which is why it turns up on cloth, on walls and on gates all over Ghana. Here it is drawn in rope rather than stamped in dye, by a Ghanaian maker, on a table that lives in the middle of a room where people sit down together.
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A round handmade centre table: natural raffia rope coiled over a recycled tyre body, with the Gye Nyame Adinkra symbol worked into the top in dark rope, a clear round glass top above it and four tapered brass tone legs. Most statement furniture in a room has to fight for a job. This one already has the job of a coffee table, and does the talking underneath the glass rather than on top of it, so the surface stays usable. The glass sits on small posts just clear of the rope, which is what lets you read the symbol through it while still putting a cup down. The body is a worn out tyre, wound round and round with rope until the tyre disappears. It is a genuinely old idea in West African furniture making, and it is the reason a table this size is still liftable by one person. The rope is banded in dark and natural blocks around the sides, and the coiled symbol on the top face is laid in by hand, coil by coil. Lift the glass off to move the table. Dust the rope with a soft brush and keep it out of standing water.
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