PETER MABEO (B. 1971) & PORKY HEFER (B. 1968)

Seemo is the result of a remote collaboration between Peter Mabeo in Botswana and Porky Hefer in Cape Town. This cross-country collaboration reflects a manufacturing process without the benefit of physical proximity that would ordinarily evolve into a commonly designed work. Instead, each designer's aesthetic language is retained - Mabeo's recognisable wooden furniture and Hefer's exploration of human scale birds' nests, creating a marriage of two disparate pieces. The concept for the work was to create an African throne with multiple uses around it so that the user has all the necessities at hand (for example a side table, a bowl, a drawer, etc). The Panga Panga timber used for this piece is a rare African wood that is sustainably farmed in Mozambique and predominantly used in Botswana.