Mercy Imiegha is a Nigerian designer and curator whose practice whose practice spans furniture and object design, exhibition-making, artist development, and cultural research. Through both design and curatorial practice, she is interested in research as a creative methodology; making, exhibitions, and collaboration as ways of generating new knowledge and perspectives.

Mercy’s journey into design began in 2016 through a training in interior design, following a background in Biochemistry. After working professionally in interior architecture and design , she founded Interior Fusion Design Studio in 2019, founded Mimọ Brand in 2020, before joining Danish furniture brand BoConcept, where she progressed from Design Consultant to Country Manager. Alongside her design career, she co-founded Nomadic Art Gallery, where she has curated exhibitions and worked closely with emerging and mid-career artists, developing exhibitions centered on various theme including material traditions, visual & symbolic languages and socio-political issues.

These parallel practices have profoundly shaped one another. While design taught her to think through material, form, and function, curatorial practice expanded her interest in the histories, meanings, and systems of knowledge embedded within objects. Today, her work sits at the intersection of design and cultural research, investigating how objects can become vessels for memory, dialogue, and cultural continuity.

About Mimọ Brand

Founded in 2020, Mimọ is a furniture and object design studio dedicated to creating thoughtful, enduring pieces that balance function with cultural meaning.

The studio began during the COVID-19 pandemic as an exploration of contemporary furniture rooted in simplicity, craftsmanship, and everyday living. Over time, Mimọ has evolved beyond commercial furniture into a broader research-led design practice. While the studio continues to create bespoke and commercially commissioned pieces, it has increasingly become a space for investigating how design can communicate stories, preserve cultural knowledge, and encourage dialogue.

This evolution is reflected in projects such as Living Symbols, an ongoing body of work that translates Adinkra symbols of West Africa into contemporary furniture and objects. Through research, material experimentation, and making, the project explores how symbolic systems continue to evolve through migration, reinterpretation, and everyday use.

At its core, Mimọ believes that design extends beyond utility. Every object has the potential to carry ideas, histories, and relationships, enriching the way we experience the spaces we inhabit. The studio approaches each project with a commitment to creating work that is purposeful.