The 3D optical illusion on the table is my best. In fact, I want that chair! The attention to details in old items, houses and furniture always wow me. The craftsmen then pride themselves on their job. Nowadays, it is about profits, the number made in a day, mass production with robots stamping things on items soullessly.

The day I visited my grandparent's friend, who still lived in a storey building he built with wood (no one builds with wood here but right there the man still refuses for the house to be taken down for the modern conventional concrete building). There is this tradition in Africa to offer kola nuts to visitors which is usually eaten with a peanut/ chilli pepper butter. When he brought out the "plate" containing this butter, I wished I had gone to the place with my camera! It was an exquisitely carved piece of art made of wood. Such fine display of ancient tableware which he said was given to him by his grandfather. Making tableware more than 130 years as he was 85 then.