A living
design language.

AGBOLÉ OYÈ is an independent, research-led design practice creating collectible furniture, lighting, and objects. Drawing on African and diasporic histories, the studio explores how inherited ideas can take new material and spatial forms.

Inspired by àgbò ilé, the Yoruba family compound, the practice considers the courtyard as a place of exchange and gathering. Its idea of Fourth Spaces extends this thinking to lives shaped between cultures—where different histories, identities, and ways of living can meet without becoming the same.

With a grounding in cultural anthropology and an interest in neuroarchitecture and neurodesign, the studio studies how objects, materials, and proportions influence our relationships to space and one another.

Influenced by Afro-now-ism ↗, developed by artist Stephanie Dinkins, the studio regards African and diasporic knowledge as living, capable of informing what is made now and what may be imagined next.

Through research, experimentation, and collaboration, AGBOLÉ OYÈ works toward objects that acknowledge their sources while finding an expression of their own.

The studio was founded by Omolola Oyetubo ↗, whose work also includes exhibitions and cultural gatherings through HOUSE OF OYE ↗.