Modou

Modou is the name that Ron Arad chose for his collection: dynamic and cinematic just like a futuristic bolide, as a homage to the metalworker Modou, that worked with him in Dakar.‎ Modou was the one that gave him the chance to develop his prototype.‎ Ron Arad gifts Modou’s work the chance to enter the world market.‎ Not as an ethnic object or a “normal” one.‎ But as an amazing trip that loops around Africa.‎ Ron Arad and Modou: two iron makers, two metal workers, where the differences melt away the moment and an object, mixing two apparently far-apart worlds, is created.‎The seating collection is made by weaving the polyethylene cords used traditionally in Africa for fishing nets.‎ Non-standard designs, different and original, made entirely by hand in Dakar, in Senegal, in the M’Afrique Atelier.‎