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Project 01 · Hospitality Crave
Restaurant, Café & Pâtisserie
A biomorphic interior shaped by the coast — sculpted plaster, fish-scale emerald tile, encaustic floors, brass and bonsai.
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Selected Work · Hospitality
Crafting Space Through Coral & Light
of Crave, Mombasa
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We don’t decorate spaces — we give them a language.
Hysab is a Mombasa-based studio working in coastal East Africa. We’re full-service — concept, sourcing, construction supervision, and final styling — and we keep every phase under one roof.
The work leans sculptural and material-forward. Every curve has a reason. Every material has a story. We design briefs we’re willing to put our name on, and we stay until the photography is done.
Projects · Selected Work, 2024
Three projects,
Three projects,
one coast.
Hospitality, workplace and commercial fit-outs — each shot, specified and supervised in-house.
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Project 02 · Workplace Hysab Studio
The Studio — Ganjoni, Mombasa
Our own studio, doubling as a showroom. Terracotta-toned plaster, oak and brass — where clients meet the work firsthand.
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Project 03 · Commercial Amirah Travels
Travel Agency Office — Kizingo
A travel agency rethought as a destination — cartographic wall, layered timber, an unhurried palette.
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12
Projects delivered
08
Years on the coast
03
Sectors — hospitality, workplace, residential
100%
Concept to handover, in-house
What We Do
Four practices,
Four practices,
one team.
We don’t hand off between disciplines. Architecture, interiors and construction supervision sit in one studio, so the drawing that the contractor builds from is the drawing we styled the day of the shoot.
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Architecture
Concept, schematic and developed design for new builds and adaptive reuse. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with structural consultants on the coast.
Concept design
Planning drawings
Construction documentation
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Interior Design
Spatial planning, material specification, lighting, joinery, FF&E. Sculptural and material-forward — restraint over decoration.
Spatial strategy
Material & lighting design
FF&E sourcing
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Project Management
Construction supervision, contractor coordination, schedule and quality control through to handover.
Programme & cost control
Site supervision
Snagging & handover
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Styling & Activation
Final-day styling, photography direction, opening collateral. The shoot is part of the build.
Day-of styling
Art direction
Launch collateral
How We Work
From brief to handover
From brief to handover
in four moves.
Typical engagement: six to fourteen months, depending on programme.
Phase 01 01
Brief & Site
Two visits, one conversation. We walk the space, agree on intent and budget envelope before drawing.
Phase 02 02
Concept
Materials, mood, plan. A small set of decisions made well — never a deck of options.
Phase 03 03
Documentation
Drawings the contractor can build from. Lighting, joinery, finishes, schedules.
Phase 04 04
Build & Handover
Weekly site, daily WhatsApp. We don't leave until the photography is done.
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Every curve has a reason. Every material has a story.
Hysab — Studio Manifesto
The Studio · Ganjoni
A Mombasa studio, coastal in posture.
We work out of a converted Ganjoni apartment — terracotta-toned plaster, oak millwork, and a wall of material samples we’ve specified into completed projects. Clients meet in the lounge, not a boardroom. Drawings live next to the things they describe.
Founded
2018
Studio Address
Ganjoni, Mombasa
Team
Six full-time
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We take on six to eight projects a year. A short brief is enough to start — we’ll come back within two working days with a call request and, if it fits, a fee outline.
Studio
Sauti ya Kenya Rd, Ganjoni
Mombasa — Kenya
Mombasa — Kenya
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Studio Location Sauti ya Kenya Rd, Ganjoni, Mombasa