Waly Seck, from design to the end of his hands
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Waly Seck, designer and founder of the Wysk design brand.
RFI / Maria Afonso
By: Maria Afonso
6 min
Waly Seck is a young designer who is inspired by African art for the creation of furniture.
Trained in design at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, he emphasizes readily available and affordable materials as well as doing much of his production himself.
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When I work with steel I tend to listen to a lot of rap, when I work with wood I will maybe listen to softer things.
It's like a stimulus to my creation and also to my ability to produce and work,
”says Waly Seck, designer and founder of the
Wysk design
brand
.
"
Wysk is the first and last letter of my first and last name Waly Seck
."
The Franco-Senegalese designer was born in Paris.
He has lived in New York and Dakar.
Today, he is based in Montpellier.
After graduating, he worked as an industrial designer in a large company but he did not find himself in this process of creation.
Waly Seck
is therefore going solo.
Steel, wood, cement, he chooses building materials that are easy to access and affordable anywhere in the world.
It all starts with a chair.
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I drew a chair, I did a 3D but very quickly, I borrowed from the bank for three thousand euros, I went to buy myself a welding machine with a rod for one hundred and fifty euros, a grinder and steel.
»Explains Waly Seck.
“
At that time, I was in a collaborative joinery, where I started to cut the steel according to my 3D, assemble it, weld it, make the appropriate finishes.
Besides, we can say that the first piece is the first prototype of the chair that you saw at Design Week.
It's interesting because, technically, there are a lot of flaws.
It's crazy to see the changes between the first piece and what you saw there three or four days
"
,
added the young designer.
Contemporary minimalist furniture
The designer grew up among several cultures that coexist in his creations.
“
I already have a very graphic aesthetic that can be found in African art, with extremely simple and dynamic geometric shapes and at the same time, I have this double course of having studied at the Rietveld where there is has that very minimalist aspect of the design.
there is really this alloy at the end of the two in any case the essential part of the function and the esthetics of the object by this slightly Scandinavian approach to the design
”,
concludes Waly Seck.
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