About

Silk meets savannah.

Named for two things we hold together on your project: the land your building sits on, and the rooms you live in. The office is in Westlands. We work with you in Kenya, and further afield when you ask.

Material palette

Who we are

From the first question about your land to the last detail in your room.

We stay with your project from the first walk on the land until your house is ready to live in. House owners, hoteliers and landowners come to us because they want one practice to carry the work, rather than a string of separate firms.

Savannah is your ground: earth, stone, timber and the plot itself. Silk is the finish: joinery, light, and rooms that feel calm. That is the whole of it, done with care.

Land

Craft

Legacy

Our approach

What we hold to on your site.

01

Your land first

How your house sits, where the shade falls, and how you arrive are settled before the plan is locked. The acacia, the slope and the light are part of your brief.

02

Materials that last

Stone, earth, timber and fibre chosen for how they age in your climate, worked by masons and joiners we have known for years.

03

Quiet rooms

Less decoration, better joints. A room in your house should still feel right twenty years from now.

04

One conversation

You speak with us. We hold the consultants, the site and the cost so your project does not scatter across a dozen inboxes.

With you

Your project, start to finish

We bring your house, renovation, interiors, hotel or camp through from brief to handover, so you work with one practice rather than a string of separate firms.

On our own land

Development we take on

We also find and shape land ourselves: feasibility, design, finance, construction and sale, carrying the same care from the first visit to the last room.

Organisation

Six disciplines, one conversation.

Development

Land, feasibility and concept

We study your plot and the opportunity before drawings begin.

Design

Architecture and coordination

We keep your brief, the landscape and the consultants together.

Project Management

Programme, cost and contract

You have one place to come for the calendar, the money and the decisions.

Construction

Site, quality and handover

We stay with your build until the keys are in your hand.

Interiors

Joinery, furnishings and finish

Your rooms are designed with the structure, and furnished with care.

Property Management

After handover

We can remain to look after your house as it was meant to be lived in.

How we contract

NCA

Kenya contractor frameworks

AAK

Architectural Association of Kenya

IQSK

Quantity surveying practice

NEMA

Environmental compliance

FIDIC

International contract forms