Designer Spotlight | Sandra Githinji

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Sandra Githinji

furniture, object & interior designer

Sandra Githinji doesn’t just design spaces – she asks what those spaces owe us.

The Kenyan-Australian designer, curator and educator leads an award-winning Melbourne studio built on a bold idea: design can remember, reclaim and reimagine. Currently a PhD candidate at RMIT researching home as a living practice. We are big fans.

“Although the pieces were manufactured offshore, they are deeply informed by personal experience and Black cultural memory.”

- Sandra Githinji

Architecture AU, May 2025

Exclusives from her CB2 exclusive collection with the Black In Design Collective, translating African architectural tradition and spiritual symbolism into sculptural home objects. Each piece is a statement.

Why We Love Her

Sandra is doing exactly what we built the platform for – naming things, tracing lineage and putting Pan-African design tradition in the room where it belongs. Her work doesn’t reference culture, it is culture. And the fact that she’s asking what home owes us from a PhD program while designing for CB2 simultaneously? That’s the range we’re here for.