The studio

The people on the work

Everyone here is on the tools. The person you meet at the first conversation is the person who draws the thing you end up standing in.

Studio portrait of a woman in their 50s with short naturally silver curly hair, wearing a charcoal sweater, against a warm grey background.

Adaeze Okafor

Founding partner

Twenty-six years of it, the last eleven here. She still draws every stair detail herself, and she will tell you why the handrail is where it is before you have asked.

Studio portrait of a man in their 60s with medium-length swept-back silver hair, wearing a navy sweater, against a warm grey background.

Ivo Reyes

Head of practice

Studio portrait of a woman in their 30s with straight dark shoulder-length hair with centre part, wearing an olive blouse, against a warm grey background.

Meera Nair

Design director

Studio portrait of a man in their 40s with short dark hair, wearing a stone shirt, against a warm grey background.

Daniel Sato

Principal, interiors

The other three partners keep to the strip. Every portrait is shot on the same 2:3 crop, in the same light, so a new face joins the row without breaking it.