Françoise Archer and her son are the owners of this magnificent shop - workshop in Mindelo. Interview with a figure from the island of Sao Vicente:
- What is the mission of Cape Verde Design?
Valorize all that is traditional and Cape Verdean know-how as well as local materials mostly recycled.
- How to develop manual art in Cape Verde, the means implemented?
The difficulty lies in the means available to the sometimes weak Cape Verdeans, such as ovens that are too small and the fact that few want to diversify. That is, they tend to reproduce the same thing or technique over and over again. But some people want to diversify and they help them through small training courses showing them other techniques that exist without these being training courses in the strict sense of the word...
