“A seat can tell us about cultural, social and aesthetic values of the society as much as the message transferred by an ancestral figure, fetiche or a ritual mask. Africans have invented and designed a furniture where each part of the human body could rest : head-rest, neck-rest, back-rest, foot-rest, seats, stools, thrones, benches, couches and so on…”

Abomey, Benin, 1966

“…In olden times man was judged and respected by his stool; today by his car…”

Catalogue of Esther Dagan’s exhibition in 1985, Man at Rest is covering stools, chairs, seats … from Upper Volta to Kenya.

Good to know :

• Texts in English & French

• 64 pages with texts and B&W images

• Second edition published in 1988

• It had been loved before so imperfections and sign of time are part of it previous life

• Condition : good