I was once asked whether I could draw from my lived cultural experience in my design work. The question lingered. Having spent formative years on both sides of the Atlantic, it often felt difficult to locate a single cultural vantage point from which to work. Architecture school encouraged clear positions, yet the reality of lived experience felt far less fixed.

But what if relationality is not blurred and everything is connected?

Studio Kame House emerged from that line of inquiry. The practice works across architecture, interiors, furniture, and exhibitions, approaching design as a site where histories, cultures, and ways of living meet and reshape one another.

Underlying the work is a skepticism toward inherited ideals and a resistance to the passive acceptance of dominant frameworks. This includes questioning the colonial imaginaries that continue to shape how land, resources, and people are understood: commodities to be extracted, optimized, and consumed.

Rather than rejecting conventions outright, the studio engages them critically. Familiar forms, materials, and narratives are shifted, reframed, and placed in new contexts. In doing so, new readings become possible. When distinct histories, tastes, and cultures intersect, unexpected balance emerge.

Studio Kame House sees design not as the production of objects, but as the construction of relationships. It is within these moments of convergence that a contemporary design language begins to take shape.

Exhibitions

2025: Department at Hudson’s / Global Citizens NOW Summit / Detroit, MI
2024: STAMP Gallery / Respond/Resist/Rethink / Ann Arbor, MI
2023: List Gallery / Senior Thesis Gallery Exhibition / Swarthmore, PA

Press

2021: The Phoenix / Artist of the Week: Philippe Kame on the Transformative Power of Art and Design
2021: The Phoenix / Original Student Musical “The Kai’s the Limit” Celebrates Student Passion, Queerness