Building worlds fromAfrican and diasporicintelligence.

There are studios that design spaces. House of Oye builds worlds.

Founded in 2023 by Omolola Oyetubo and based in Tucson, Arizona, House of Oye is a multidisciplinary design studio working from a single conviction: that African and diasporic intelligence is not an influence or an aesthetic — it is a complete design language, capable of building everything. Spaces that hold memory. Objects that carry lineage. Environments that make the people inside them feel, perhaps for the first time, that the room was built with them in mind.

The studio works in the tradition of the griot — the keeper of memory, the one who knows which object carries which truth, which material holds which history, which arrangement of space will make the ancestors lean in. Every project begins with that inheritance and ends with a room that could not have existed without it.

House of Oye works through three distinct but deeply connected bodies of practice — each one a different answer to the same question: what does it look like to build entirely from African and diasporic intelligence?

Ìlékùnlẹ́ is the exhibition and curatorial practice — building immersive environments where African and diasporic objects, performance, film, and community converge to make ancestral memory structurally present. At its core is a collection of over 80 objects, each entered into relationship rather than simply acquired.

Àgbọlé Oye is the original furniture and homeware line — new works conceived by Omolola Oyetubo, rooted in the design traditions, material intelligence, and spatial logic of the African continent and its diaspora. This is not revival. It is continuation.

Creative Services brings the studio's practice into direct collaboration — spatial design, curatorial support, and cultural strategy for artists, organizations, and brands building at the intersection of culture, community, and design.