Nadia Osei

Accra-born, Paris-trained, and now working across West Africa and Western Europe, Nadia Osei builds interiors at the intersection of Ghanaian craft traditions and European modernism. Her work resists every category it is placed in.

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Preview - Between Two Worlds in Accra

My client had spent fifteen years in Paris before returning to Accra to build the house he had always intended to build. He arrived back with a particular problem: he had become someone different in those fifteen years, and he needed a home that could hold both versions of himself — the Ghanaian who had grown up in Osu, and the man who had spent a decade and a half in the 11th arrondissement. He did not want to choose.

Accra, Ghana

Preview - An Accra Home, Reimagined

My client had spent fifteen years in Paris before returning to build the house he always intended to build. He had a particular problem: he needed a home that could hold both versions of himself — the Ghanaian who had grown up in Osu, and the man who had spent fifteen years in the 11th arrondissement.