About Khaya

Khaya takes its name from African mahogany (Khaya ivorensis), a hardwood native to West and Central Africa. In Nguni languages, khaya means home. In Hausa, kaya refers to one’s belongings, what we carry.

Home, Memory, Material

Khaya is about home, memory, and the objects we live with. The collection draws from West African terracotta, earthen architecture, domestic rituals, carved forms, and photographic archives. Each piece begins with an original form developed by hand in the studio, through pinching, coiling, and carving.

Made slowly, each object is shaped with attention to weight, balance, texture and use.

The things we live with become part of our lives. They sit beside meals and conversations, celebration and grief, solitude and rest. They move between homes. They are kept, repaired and passed on.

Khaya is rooted in what we keep, what we carry, and the spaces that shape us.

Objects for living. Objects for remembering.