{"id":1117,"date":"2026-04-14T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2026-04-14T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:25:00","slug":"dozie-kanu-the-best-thing-i-can-do-is-make-what-i-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"Dozie Kanu: \u201cThe Best Thing I Can Do Is Make What I Know\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/17123\/dozie-kanu-salone-del-mobile-2026-interview-knoll?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=dozie-kanu-the-best-thing-i-can-do-is-make-what-i-know\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/470\/2\/472310.jpeg\" alt=\"Dozie Kanu for Knoll at Salone del Mobile 2026\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFor an artist, there\u2019s really only one pursuit,\u201d <\/span><strong>Dozie Kanu<\/strong><span> tells me, laughing slightly before landing on the word: \u201c<\/span><span>Dopeness.<\/span><span> If my only goal is to make the most fire work possible, with no monetary motivation, no desire for recognition, everything else falls into place.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kanu is speaking over Zoom from his studio in Portugal about his first commercial furniture line in collaboration with Knoll, the Americanhellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/design-living\/17123\/dozie-kanu-salone-del-mobile-2026-interview-knoll?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=dozie-kanu-the-best-thing-i-can-do-is-make-what-i-know\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor an artist, there\u2019s really only one pursuit,\u201d Dozie Kanu tells me, laughing slightly before landing on the word: \u201cDopeness. If my only goal is to make the most fire work possible, with no monetary motivation, no desire for recognition,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}