This photo provided by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum shows a Indigo-dyed damask-woven cotton, Adire wrapper, ca. 1990, from Gambia. Traditional African aesthetics meet modernist architecture in the latest exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum: a selection of textiles from West and Central Africa that have inspired the work of British architect David Adjaye. “I have always been interested in the abstraction and range of techniques associated with African textiles,” said Adjaye, who has designed 50 architecture projects around the world, including the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture, slated to open next year. (Matt Flynn/Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum via AP)
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