Patty Johnson with Mabeo Furniture, Botswana, Thaneras, India, and Wendell Castle’s Icon Furniture, USA.

Made Away, a feature exhibition at ICFF 2017, revisits a collection of work debuted in 2016 at Spazio Rossana Orlandi during Milan Design Week as well as presenting a new series of products designed and made with one of my oldest collaborators Mabeo Furniture. In one sense this is an artistic exploration motivated by the desire to combine and recombine the strands of my practice over the last decade in order to create new and better work. But it is also driven by the need to continue to bring exposure to the very best of those that cannot always access international markets.