Diébédo Francis Kéré is an architect born in 1965 in Gando, Burkina Faso, and based in Berlin, where he studied architecture at the Technische Universität and founded Kéré Architecture in 2005. His buildings, from the Gando Primary School to the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion in London, earned him the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2022.
For Riva 1920 he designed the Ziba Stool (2016), carved by machine from a solid cedar log and finished by hand without treatment. It reinterprets the traditional West African stool, cut by hand from shea logs; its name comes from a Burkinabè expression, used ironically, that urges people to avoid indolence.
