Yaya Willoughby


Furntiture Design
From 2021 +
  1. Dachshund (2023)
  2. Dogwood Berry Chair (2023)
  3. Hippo (2024)
  4. Swirly Shelving (2022)
  5. Macaroni Chair (2021)
  6. Turtle Quilt (2024)
  7. Flower Stool (2022)
  8. Curves (2022)
  9. Lemon Table (2021)
  10. Light Box (2022)
Children’s Design
From 2022 +
  1. Dogwood Berry Chair (2023)
  2. Hippo (2024)
  3. Dachshund (2023)
  4. Turtle Quilt (2024)
  5. Curves (2022)
  6. Flower Stool (2022)
  7. Jason’s Hippo Collection (2024)
  8. Flying Dog (2024)
  9. Dachshund Collection (2024)

About Me
  1. In a world that has increasingly become more lonely, Yaya Willoughby is an artist who creates connections between people through furniture.
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About Me

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We live our lives made up of a great quantity of isolated instants. So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things. (From the Double Dream of Spring, 1970.)

  Schooling
  1. RISD 2020 - 2024
  2. Pius XI High School 2020
  3. 2017 YFU Exchange Student to Tokyo, Japan.
   Experience
  1. Vow’d Weddings June 2024+ Milwaukee, Wisconsin Wedding Stylist.
  2. RISD Jan - May 2024. Providence, Rhode Island Furniture Design Dept. Monitor
  3. Arca Ebenisterie, July 2023. Paris France. Design Internship
  4. Calico Corners Summer 2022. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sales Intern.
  Hobbies
  1. Learning Languages
  2. Reading Comics (all kinds)
  3. Exercising (Running, Martial Arts)
  4. Singing (Brown University Chorus)
  5. Observing International Relations and learning about Cultures




With all the loneliness that technology had produced, we must reevaluate our connection to ourselves and others. The goal of my work is to use furniture to create interactions between people.  


Yaya Willoughby is an artist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She got her Bachelors in Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). While at RISD, she majored in furniture design and took classes at Brown University.