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Ikea is partnering with over a dozen African designers from seven countries for its new African line<\/strong>, Quartz<\/a>\u2019s Lynsey Chutel writes. \u201cWe want to learn from the creative explosion which is taking place in several cities around Africa right now and spread it to the rest of the world by working with designers from several African countries that all have different takes on design,\u201d Ikea spokeswoman Johanna Martin told Quartz. The collection is set to launch in 2019<\/strong>. The designers met once last year in Sweden are meeting again next month at Design Indaba conference<\/a> in Cape Town. \u201cAll the designers collaborating on the collection are in some way preoccupied with reimagining Africa\u2019s urban spaces in cities as diverse as Cairo<\/a> is to Luanda<\/a>,\u201d writes Chutel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ikea is partnering with over a dozen African designers from seven countries for its new African line, Quartz\u2019s Lynsey Chutel writes. \u201cWe want to learn from the creative explosion which is taking place in several cities around Africa right now and spread it to the rest of the world by working with designers from several […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12012],"tags":[72,2380,12011,12010],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-651655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speed-round-the-weekend-edition","tag-enterpriseam","tag-speed-round","tag-speed-round-the-weekend-edition","tag-the-weekend-edition","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"a448054b-eae4-436d-ad06-e889fcb4566c","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"section_story_id":"9dacd020-7e60-4eb3-9fd0-2d64939dff24","story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[651644],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nIkea\u2019s new venture in Africa - 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