David Ballam - KANA_55 Homeware exploration

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DimensionsLarge: 496mm H x 880mm W x 1400mm L

can tolerate some Sun best positioned South Facing window in the northern hemisphere and it also does well in a east facing window having morning Sunshine

Each shield is carved from a single piece of Baobab wood — a sacred wood used for medicinal and ritual purposes for centuries — then covered in hundreds of hand-placed black and white beads on manila string in a bold geometric pattern

David Ballam - KANA_55 Homeware explorationLake Turkana lies within the Kenyan Rift Valley and is the worlds largest permanent desert lake. For me, however, it is the people that inhabit the region that are most inspiring and intriguing. With customs, traditions, beliefs and beauty as deep as the lakes waters, the people and landscape of Lake Turkana left me reeling in insignificance David Ballam was born and schooled in Johannesburg, South Africa. He first attended university in Cape Town but