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Ambre Jarno, her dreams of Africa become furniture

2023-05-30T05:30:57.262Z

Highlights: Ambre Jarno is the founder of Maison Integre in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. She was born and raised in Paris but moved to West Africa at the age of 24. She founded Maison Integrity to create furniture and decorative objects inspired by Africa, of a soothing beauty. Ambre: "I tamed this beautiful country by starting by getting to know it," says Ambre, who can be guessed upset by the tragedy of Burkine Faso, which means "Land of Honest Men"


Television leads to everything as long as you get out of it. Parachuted very young in Burkina Faso, West Africa, she discovered ancestral know-how and founded Maison Integre, creating pieces of furniture and decorative objects inspired by Africa, of a soothing beauty.


Do you know the story of the young woman with dreams too big for the little Hexagon? The year of her 24th birthday, this graduate in master's degree in media, "100% Breton" and who grew up in Paris, headed for Burkina Faso, in this French-speaking West Africa, then spared from the leprosy of Islamist terrorism. Ambre Jarno arrives in Ouagadougou to set up the subsidiary of Canal Plus. She immediately feels good there, as an evidence of having found the country to which she seems to have always belonged. A kind of intense déjà vu guides his steps in other steps, his own in another life, surely. "I tamed this beautiful country by starting by getting to know it," says Ambre, who can be guessed upset by the tragedy of Burkina Faso, which means the "Land of Honest Men", and now subject to exponential insecurity. Fortunately, Ouagadougou, the capital home to Maison Integrity's workshops and where its inspiration lives, remains spared the lack of...

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