Nia Okonkwo Studio

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Selected works

Twelve years of built commissions across Chicago and the Midwest, every one measured on site before a board was milled.

Built-in oak library room with floor-to-ceiling shelving and a rolling brass ladder — 1 Millwork & Interiors 2025 Humboldt Park Library & Reading Room 1,400-volume perimeter oak library with integrated radiator heat plenum and rolling brass ladder.

Ten-seat white oak dining table set for a meal in a narrow apartment dining room — 2 Custom Furniture 2025 Ten-Seat White Oak Dining Table Solid rift-sawn white oak with knock-down mechanical joinery engineered for narrow walk-up stairwells.

Ash and blackened steel counter stools lined up along a cafe bar counter — 3 Object Series 2024 Stool Series for Cafe Colectivo Twenty-four ash and blackened steel counter stools built on a single jig with field-replaceable foot glides.

Loft storage wall in oiled walnut with tambour roll-front doors, one open to show shelving — 4 Millwork & Interiors 2024 Pilsen Loft Storage Wall & Media Unit Eighteen-foot Baltic birch carcass system with oiled walnut tambour doors and concealed cable channels.

Oak and fluted glass mullion partition forming an entry vestibule airlock — 5 Architectural Element 2023 Mullion Screen & Entry Vestibule Fluted glass and quarter-sawn oak partition creating an acoustic airlock for a historic brownstone.

Wall-hung torrefied ash credenza in a minimalist living space — 6 Custom Furniture 2023 Floating Credenza in Torrefied Ash Wall-hung storage cabinet with knife-edge miters, concealed steel cleat system, and integrated induction charging.

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