“From an early age, we were both fascinated by buildings and how they are constructed, and we dreamed of starting a company together,” recounted Badjj recently.
Senegal’s post-colonial period has a strong architectural history. The country’s first president, Léopold Sédar Senghor, was a proponent of an angular architecture he called “asymmetrical parallelism,” examples of which are still evident at the site of the country’s 1974 International Fair in Dakar. Since 1966, Thiés has also been home to the Manufactures Sénégalaises des Arts Décoratifs, a tapestry factory where African design is a key element of the work.
