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Artwork School of Design

Interior design training in Nairobi

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Courses

Three studio courses. One practice.

Taught beside live Artwork Kenya in Nairobi.

Open furniture book showing an assembled wooden chair beside an exploded diagram of its parts

Furniture Design

Design pieces that belong in a room: proportion, comfort, joinery, and how furniture sits with architecture.

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Hand-drawn plans on a studio desk

Space Planning

Draw how people move, gather, and rest — zoning and circulation that feel like a life, not a diagram.

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Why Artwork

Think. Design. Build. Transform.

Artwork School of Design

Nairobi, Kenya

Studio desk at night with laptop plans, sketchbook, and drafting tools
Laptop mood board and annotated floor plan for a live interior project

After 15 years delivering interiors across East Africa, we built a school for the gap between beautiful drawings and spaces that work.

Students learn to understand people, buildings, business, and impact — then design, build, and measure what they make.

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Students

Who is this for

If you care how people live, work, and feel in a space — this is for you.

Artwork welcomes school leavers, career changers, and working professionals ready to understand the people who use a space, the buildings that contain it, the businesses that operate within it, and the environmental impact of every choice. We prepare a new generation of Kenyan and African designers who are creative enough to envision, technical enough to deliver, commercially aware enough to create value, globally informed enough to compete, and human centred enough to transform how people experience the built environment.

Charles Eames

“The details are not the details. They make the design.”

Charles Eames
Charlotte Perriand

“The extension of the art of dwelling is the art of living.”

Charlotte Perriand

Purpose

Where we are taking design

First the horizon. Then the path.

Vision

To be Africa's leading design school, shaping creative, ethical and future-ready designers who transform the built environment and influence how people live, work and experience the world.

Mission

To empower the next generation of designers through an education that connects creative thinking with technology, human wellbeing, sustainability and real-world delivery — designers who think critically, design boldly, build responsibly and create measurable value.

Faculty

Reuben Adwar

Reuben Adwar

Managing Partner, Artwork School of Design

Teaching

Studio teaching beside live project work across Kenya and East Africa

Esther Kirunga

Esther Kirunga

Project Management & Quality Assurance

Area of Interest

Client standards, resources, risk, and how delivery shapes design education

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Hamp Court, Suite 6

Upper Hill, Nairobi. Next to UAP Towers.