Giles Tettey Nartey creates communal table for pounding and serving fufu

Pestles, mortars and bowls are integrated into the surfaces of the Communion table, created by designer Giles Tettey Nartey specifically for preparing the West African staple dish fufu.
Carved from American maple, the monumental furniture piece consists of a central serving table surrounded by five workstations for pounding boiled cassava and plantain into a dough.
This dough is then formed into small parcels reminiscent of dumplings, from which pieces are torn and used to scoop up soups and stews.
Tettey Nartey, who was born in South London but lived in Ghana for much of his childhood, designed the sculptural table to reframe the everyday act of making fufu as a ritual with tremendous social and cultural significance.
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