BY OMIKO AWA
CARVINGS,
furniture, fashion and other genres of the art met recently at the White Space,
Raymond Njoku Street, Ikoyi, as Zebra Living opened its doors to the public for
Dikko Chronicles and Mara Home exhibition.
Ugoma
Adegoke and Sandra Obiago
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The show, which attracted guests
from different fields, saw the outfit’s retrospective capsule collection of
classic vintage dresses in iconic bold African wax prints as well as colourful vintage
laces and retro painterly textures.
Aside from clothes, there was the
installation of Mara home collections, which was mostly made of furniture and
décor items.
Marc -Andre
Schmachtel and a guest
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Speaking at the show, Ugoma
Adegoke, creative director, Zebra Living, said for half a decade she has
recycled fabrics and notions from her fashion projects to create rustic,
collectible accent furniture pieces that attract the following of art-loving,
design-conscious and functional decorators and buyers.