Studio · Founder
Pamela Michelle Aboagye
Founder and Creative Director
Michelle trained in interior architecture at KLC School of Design in London. She sets the creative direction of every project, supported by the studio team across design development, procurement, coordination and delivery.
Her story
It began with a sewing machine.
Ms. Atkinson Interiors began in a London flat in the first lockdown of 2020. Michelle had run her own beauty business for years. When that stopped overnight, she bought a sewing machine and made duck and goose down cushions to make her own rooms feel finished. Her landlord saw them and asked for a set. Referrals followed, then questions about what else would suit a bedroom, then whole rooms for friends and family between London and Accra.
The studio was established in June 2020 and named after her late mother, Mary Effie Anthony Atkinson. In 2022 Michelle enrolled at KLC School of Design at Chelsea Harbour to study interior architecture. The studio now works from Accra and London, with a store at the Galleria and projects that range from private homes to Vivrant at the Kempinski.
What the studio believes
Three things every room is held to.
Proportion before decoration
A room is right when its bones are right: the height of a ceiling, the width of a doorway, where the light falls at four in the afternoon. Only then does anything get chosen to go in it.
Materials that gain character
Walnut, stone, linen, brass and velvet, chosen because they age well. A room should look better in its tenth year than on the day it was handed over.
Restraint with warmth
Fewer pieces, better made, placed where the eye wants to rest. Softness against structure, so that a disciplined room still feels like somewhere to come home to.
Press
Forbes Africa, August 2024
Luxury Checks In: Ghana’s Real Estate Sector Sees Room For Improvement. Peace Hyde on the demand for opulent interiors as Ghana’s home market picks up, with Michelle on craftsmanship, materials and the growth still to come.
Power 100
Named among Africa’s Leading Women in Real Estate.
Work with Michelle
Every project starts with a conversation at the studio.
Book a visit to the Galleria, or send a message, and the studio will arrange a consultation and a written proposal.