Auntie Renée’s green mission in Ghana

New York-based designer Elise McMahon launched the studio LikeMindedObjects, an incubator for quirky furniture and custom interiors, 14 years ago. Her sustainable approach to design led to experimentation with upcycled materials, but she wanted to do more. “I wanted to make a positive difference to the waste and overconsumption habits I was seeing all around me,” she says.

A friend, the American artist and designer Chris Wolston, had years before spent several months at Ghana’s