Tosin Oshinowo and Chrissa Amuah Bring The Earliest Form of HeadGear Back in Style
Tosin Oshinowo and Chrissa Amuah craft the Egaro as a beautiful objectsthat inspires desire to be worn for adornment and protection.
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Drawing inspiration from the past, whilst reflecting on the use of face masks in modern time, Architect Tosin Oshinowo and designer Chrissa Amuah have made the conceptual, jewelry-like Egaro face shield for this year’s Design Miami. Teaming up with car brand Lexus as part of the Freedom to Move project at Design Miami, both artists alongside a multitude of others were tasked to create a design in direct response to the unprecedented global events of 2020.
Tosin Oshinowo and Chrissa Amuah Bring The Earliest Form of HeadGear Back in Style
Dubbed ?Breathe?, Tosin Oshinowo and Chrissa Amuah?s medieval mask comprises of two curved brass plates, decorated in a stencil design inspired by the pulmonary veins of the lungs, and is intended to reference African fractal rhythm and breathing. Worn like a headband, the face shield has a 3D-printed white nylon frame that extends in a cross over the front, whilst its vertical wave-shaped form is punctuated by two bars at the end.
Conceptualized and crafted in Lagos, Nigeria, where Oshinowo is based and runs her architecture studio, Egaro takes its name from the site at Termit in eastern Niger, where archaeological evidence confirms that Africa had independently invented its own iron tec...
The post Tosin Oshinowo and Chrissa Amuah Bring The Earliest Form of HeadGear Back in Style appeared first on LUXUO.
Drawing inspiration from the past, whilst reflecting on the use of face masks in modern time, Architect Tosin Oshinowo and designer Chrissa Amuah have made the conceptual, jewelry-like Egaro face shield for this year’s Design Miami. Teaming up with car brand Lexus as part of the Freedom to Move project at Design Miami, both artists alongside a multitude of others were tasked to create a design in direct response to the unprecedented global events of 2020.
Tosin Oshinowo and Chrissa Amuah Bring The Earliest Form of HeadGear Back in Style
Dubbed ?Breathe?, Tosin Oshinowo and Chrissa Amuah?s medieval mask comprises of two curved brass plates, decorated in a stencil design inspired by the pulmonary veins of the lungs, and is intended to reference African fractal rhythm and breathing. Worn like a headband, the face shield has a 3D-printed white nylon frame that extends in a cross over the front, whilst its vertical wave-shaped form is punctuated by two bars at the end.
Conceptualized and crafted in Lagos, Nigeria, where Oshinowo is based and runs her architecture studio, Egaro takes its name from the site at Termit in eastern Niger, where archaeological evidence confirms that Africa had independently invented its own iron tec...
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