Sep 20, 2019
‘Au’, by Tomoko Azumi,
Designed for Kwame Kwei-Armah CBE, Artistic Director of The Young Vic.
Influenced by the wooden outdoor furniture often found in the Caribbean, whilst the curved steam-bent hood is intended to resemble the hull of the slave ships that carried his ancestors from Africa, as well as the boat that brought his parents to the UK.
The boat-shaped garden seat is made of steam-bent American red oak, timber rods of different lengths, the structure is lighter at the top and denser and more private in the centre. The seat rests on a cube with an intricate ‘X’ on each face.
