nouba is drawn from the French for party, is a regenerative cultural project. It draws on Alethia’s family roots to create dramatic furniture offering a new design language for Caribbean hospitality culture.
Exploring and dissecting the culture of Carnival, the collection employs the languages of back row performers, the back packs that support extravagance, defining tall, dramatic winged bar stools strong enough to withstand the enduring passion for dance, party and performance that Carnival celebrates and sustains. The steel frames with their two-tone iridescent surfaces ending in tracery: steel wings in two sizes, allow the sitter their own stage for an evening’s performance of ‘party’.
Exploring and dissecting the culture of Carnival, the collection employs the languages of back row performers, the back packs that support extravagance, defining tall, dramatic winged bar stools strong enough to withstand the enduring passion for dance, party and performance that Carnival celebrates and sustains. The steel frames with their two-tone iridescent surfaces ending in tracery: steel wings in two sizes, allow the sitter their own stage for an evening’s performance of ‘party’.
PROJECT BACKGROUND
MOOD BOARD
chairs - 3D model by imanialethia - Sketchfab
bp3 - 3D model by imanialethia - Sketchfab
The "IN W.I. YARD" collective will exist to ignite the Afro-Caribbean hospitality market with functional culture capsules that embody the rhythm, the sensuality, the rawness and the color of the Afro-Caribbean people.
nouba barstool 3 render
Carnival Costume Design
Imani Alethia explores designing Carnival costumes to obring scale to nouba's wigs.
The hand and computer modeled sketches above show the evolution to the digital drawings below. The drawings below speak to the fronline and backline elements of carnival. Carnival backline costumes can have no wings or small wings (options A/B). Frontline costumes are option C and they are large scale wings.
nouba barstool 1
nouba backpack 3
Color Waves
nouba barstool