The swedish design studio Muungano has produced a collection of furniture called Baufrica, now shown at the Stockholm Furniture Fair. The studio has for a couple of years worked with projects in or related to parts of Africa. Now we have brought the African colour and pattern tradition and mixed it up with the forms and functionalism of the Bauhaus-school.
The pattern of the lamps are inspired by a lecture with mathematician Ron Eglash, where he talks about how African villages are structured according to fractal number series. The used pattern is based on the so called Sierpinski triangle. With the use of todays low-energy light sources you get an unpleasent white light. This is filtered through the ash-veneer to make it softer and cosier and it is not until you turn on the lamp the pattern apears.
The furniture is based on a modular system in waxed ash and multi-coloured lacqueered tubar steel, and upholstry with grey filt. The different components can be made into an easy-chair, sofa, table or a lamp.
