In the morning, after the movement by the pool, the body asks to be fed with something alive. At Maison Esmeralda Dakar, that living thing comes from the garden and from fermentation: a Senegalese memory far older than any trend. What grows here becomes, in a few days, richer, deeper, more useful to the body.
Mens Sana: What Ferments Under the Dakar Sun Read Post »
Bamboo, rattan, a garden, a long table. Maison Esmeralda Dakar offers three rooms in Dakar with a point of view: materials that breathe in the heat, an outdoor space designed around the sun, and a table that has two lives.
Three Rooms in Dakar. Not One More. Read Post »
Dakar’s calendar — who comes, why, and what they still can’t find when they arrive. I spent months looking at this calendar before I understood what it was actually saying. At first I saw events. Names, dates, categories. Then I started seeing the people behind the events. And that is when something shifted: I recognized
Dakar’s calendar — who comes, why, and what they still can’t find when they arrive. Read Post »
I visited every coworking space in Dakar. Here is what I found. And why I decided to build something entirely different. Here is what ten years of nomadic work across the world’s major cities taught me: coworking spaces have a universal problem. And that problem has nothing to do with the quality of the wifi.
The Manifesto: Coworking in Dakar Read Post »
Why Dakar — and why a private guesthouse in Dakar is not an ordinary decision Someone once called Dakar the Athens of West Africa. The comparison was meant as a compliment. But Dakar does not need Athens, any more than a private guesthouse in Dakar needs to look like what the word hotel brings to
