Inside thecollective.
Creative Quarters Studio began with a simple idea — that makers working the same timber should not be working alone.
From one idea to a full studio.
The first idea started in January 2024 — a single workbench in Lagos and the conviction that craft is stronger held in common. The company itself was only legally created in October 2025.
We registered as Creative Quarters Studio Limited so the collective could take on interiors, commissions and exhibitions as one body — while every piece still passes through many individual hands.
The road so far.
The first idea
The first idea for the studio starts in January 2024 — a conversation and the conviction that craft is stronger held in common.
The company is founded
Creative Quarters Studio Limited is legally created in October 2025, giving the collective a name, a workbench, and a roof in Lagos.
Commissions work
Collectors, architects and clients begin commissioning original pieces — each one made to brief, from raw timber to finished form.
Exhibitions
The collective's work is shown at the CQS Showroom and partner venues, with Raw Material and Hands at Work opening through 2026.
Collaborations
Collaborations take shape with artists, designers and studios abroad — including REMI C.T STUDIO in London, UK.
The hands behind the work.
Djakou Kassi Nathalie
“Makers should not work alone. The earth is the same the hands should be too.”
“Co-founded the studio alongside Djakou, building the collective from the first stool.”
“Brings a multidisciplinary practice to the collective's projects and process.”
“Brings a multidisciplinary practice to the collective's projects and process.”
“Brings a multidisciplinary practice to the collective's projects and process.”
“Brings a multidisciplinary practice to the collective's projects and process.”
“Brings a multidisciplinary practice to the collective's projects and process.”
“Brings a multidisciplinary practice to the collective's projects and process.”
What the studio will not trade.
Our values — deadlines respected, quality work — sit alongside the craft principles below. They decide which projects we take, and how every piece leaves the workshop.
Material honesty
We let wood be what it is. The grain leads, the hand follows — nothing is disguised as something else.
Many hands
Every piece passes through the collective. Authorship is shared, and the work is better for it.
Slow making
We keep the old methods because they hold. Speed has never been the point of this workshop.
Modern African form
Our vocabulary is contemporary and deeply rooted at the same time — and we see no contradiction in that.
Deadlines respected
When we commit to a date — a commission, an installation, an opening night — the work is ready on that date.
Quality work
A piece leaves the workshop only once it meets the standard the collective holds itself to. No shortcuts, no exceptions.
We are multidisciplary artists
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