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Lagos Textile

Designer
Sir David Adjaye, English-Ghanaian (born Tanzania), born 1966
Maker
Knoll Inc., East Greenville, Pennsylvania, founded 1938
Date
2015
Material
Polyester and nylon
made in
East Greenville, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
Classification
Textiles
Collection
Decorative Arts and Design
Current Location
Not on view
Dimensions
three yards per design: 14 ft. 6 in. × 56 in. × 36 in. (442 × 142.2 × 91.4 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Centro Modern Furnishings
Rights
© Knoll
Object Number
3:2017
NOTES
This upholstery fabric’s tight, toothy pattern was inspired by the triangular motifs of a handwoven cloth made by an Igbo woman from Akwete, Nigeria. Called Lagos, after the nation’s most populous city, it is part of a larger collection of textiles designed by celebrated architect Sir David Adjaye for the American manufacturer Knoll. Drawing upon a selection of Central and West African textiles in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, Adjaye aimed to find a “contemporary condition,” or process, for specific handmade construction techniques and natural materials.

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