'Design for me as a practice started recently, but the need to solve problems started a long time ago,' shares Josh Egesi, who founded his interdisciplinary design studio Ike in Lagos in 2021, at the height of pandemic. Since then, Egesi’s studio has enjoyed the kind of speedy ascent that many design practitioners can only dream of.
His Ikenna tripod fan became something of a cult collectable and tropical home essential for the aesthetically minded in Nigeria, and global acclaim has come via a seminal debut at Milan Design Week 2024, where his Ayo bench was part of Wallpaper’s Class of ’24 exhibition at Triennale. However, plaudits aside, it is delivering solutions from a project, product and community level that underpin Egesi’s design credo.
