Viva Brighton Issue #50 April 2017
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DESIGN<br />
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Yinka Ilori<br />
How do you turn a parable into a chair?<br />
Photo above by Veerle Evens<br />
Artist and designer Yinka Ilori is achieving great<br />
things with his enigmatic furniture, which is<br />
inspired by Nigerian words of wisdom. He may still<br />
be in his twenties, but Yinka is already preparing for<br />
his eighth solo show, in South Korea, and his chair<br />
A Trapped Star was recently acquired for the permanent<br />
collection at <strong>Brighton</strong> Museum & Art Gallery.<br />
Yinka says it’s an honour to have his work exhibited<br />
alongside personal favourites such as Salvador<br />
Dali’s Mae West Lips Sofa. “To be around designers<br />
and artists who I’ve looked up to a lot, to have my<br />
work around theirs, is amazing.”<br />
Yinka’s work found its way to <strong>Brighton</strong> after<br />
Fashion Cities Africa co-curator Helen Mears asked<br />
him to create chairs for their reading room. The<br />
team visited Yinka’s East London studio and were<br />
taken by his series If Chairs Could Talk, so they<br />
snapped up his favourite piece.<br />
Photo by Dan Weill<br />
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