Limited edition of hand-painted, silk-screened Fijian Baby Zaishus produced through the TribeWanted project – available only from ReForm School!! So, what’s a Zaishu? A portable, simplified seat / table / box that slots together without nails, screws or glue. Based on a program of participation, creativity, responsibility and evolution, the Zaishu Project is an international collaborative event, recording patterns, designs and cultural texture from around the world on sheets of plantation grown veneer. The smaller edition is called the Baby Zaishu. Enter TribeWanted - a unique community based tourism program that is simultaneously based in the economically-depressed north of Fiji on an island called Vorovoro as well as online. Working closely with the Mali tribe, the TribeWanted members spend time on the island learning about the traditions of Fiji, and sharing their knowledge on what it means to be green. Each month, the TribeWanted membership elects a “chief” who is given a small budget with which to take on a legacy project. Kaz Brecher, an LA-based visual artist, approached Zaishu and Reform School a year ago about collaborating on this project. As the elected April Chief, she set out to work with the tribes to produce a limited edition of 50 Baby Zaishu chairs. These one-of-a-kind functional art objects, printed with water-based inks, are exclusively for sale through Reform School, with all proceeds benefiting the Mali District School, supporting arts and sustainability education. In order to capture a broad swath of the artwork and patterns in Fiji today, patterns were selected from the oldest tradition of masi, or stencilling, the northern woven mat patterns, and the symbol of modern Fiji - the ubiquitous bula flower patterns. By using silk screens, Kaz was able to include people of all levels in the production. In addition, she used the project as a means to stimulate discussions about traditional and modern arts in Fiji as well as what it means to produce products sustainably. Congrats to Kaz & Matt & Helen of Zaishu for a job well done! Approx 8.5" sq x 12" tall. Ships flat packed.