Yinka Ilori is a London based designer. He specialises
in up-cycling vintage furniture, inspired by the
traditional Nigerian parables and African fabrics that
surrounded him as child. Humorous, provocative
and fun, each piece of furniture he creates tells a
story. Ilori is passionately against the unnecessary
waste he has seen in European and West African
consumer cultures and this drives him to reuse
discarded furniture and other found objects. With
each custom made piece inspired by a parable, Ilori
restores new life and purpose to reclaimed materials.
A creative soul turning vintage
furniture into storytelling pieces
‘The timber tailor’ is an exclusive collection of wooden pendant lights
created by UK design practice, “Another Studio”. Influenced by the craft of
tailoring, each piece was constructed using pattern-cutting techniques on
the wood veneer to create elegant and seamless structures. Mixing machine
and handmade processes the final outcome creates polygonal wooden
forms that imitate the shape of the structural body.
The timber tailor includes four striking and playful designs: yoke, ruffle,
peak and puff.
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