Estelle Yomeda, trained in art history and holding a degree in visual arts, is a Franco-Togolese designer and artist, working between Paris and Lomé. Yomeda began her career at Yves Saint Laurent’s Studio Chaussure after studying visual arts at the University of Strasbourg and crafts at the costume workshops of the Opéra national du Rhin. As an Afro European, Yomeda brings a transversal and generous perspective to design, freely combining multicultural traditions and innovations.
Her artistic process is rooted in the discovery of ancestral cultural knowledge and her encounters with Togolese artisans.
This ethos fuels her creativity and led her to launch her design studio, Kente Project, in 2018, through which she creates limited edition furniture and unique pieces. Its name derives from her discovery of Kente, a traditional weaving that has established itself over the centuries as the symbolic identity and fabric of Togo and Ghana.
Yomeda made her first furniture collection in 2021, inspired by Togolese craftsmanship and the long tradition of French decorative arts. Entirely handcrafted, Yomeda’s signature works are sculptural furniture pieces made from exceptional solid wood species from Togo, such as neem, royal lingue, melina and cassia, chosen for their durability and beauty, which lend her works a natural and warm polychromy. Characterized by their tactile quality and sensual silhouettes, Yomeda’s furniture pieces are highly organic with an almost animist presence.
Galerie Maria Wettergren is presenting Estelle Yomeda’s first solo exhibition in France, Animal Vegetal, from 6 November 2025 to 17 January 2026. Yomeda will equally be part of the exhibition Design in West Africa—Unity in Multiplicity at the Palais de Lomé in Togo from 28 November 2025 to 15 March 2026.
, at Galerie Maria Wettergren, from November 6, 2025, to January 17, 2026.