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A figure adorned in a sculptural brass mask and ceremonial necklace

Volume I — Of Symbols & Skin

Adornment
as Language.

STUDIO DABANGAStudio · Est. Adornment House

""Some use words or music.
We use adornment to speak.""

A woman draped in earth-toned cloth wears a sculptural neckpiece in the desert

Featured Collection

Mwana —
the child of clay.

Hand-forged in oxidized brass and warm copper. Each piece carries a fragment of ritual — worn close to the skin, remembered through touch.

Enter the Collection

The Atelier

A world
made by hand.

Studio Dabanga lives between continents and centuries. We work in small batches with artisans whose lineage runs deeper than any signature — brass beaten thin, clay pressed warm, beads strung in silence.

Every object is a small ceremony. Nothing is mass produced. Nothing is rushed.

An artisan shapes metal in a dimly lit studio, dust caught in a beam of light

Collections

The Archive

A ritual mask on a stone pedestal lit by a single spotlight in a gallery

Now Showing

Of Ash & Offering
An exhibition of ceremonial objects

March — June. By appointment, Studio Dabanga, Dakar.

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From the Studio

@Studio_Dabanga

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Correspondence

Be among the few
we write to.

New collections, private viewings, and stories from the atelier. Sent slowly, when there is something worth saying.