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Elena Marchetti
Founder & Creative Director
Elena founded Atelier Noire in 2011 after a decade in set design. She leads the creative vision across all three disciplines and still sketches every floor plan by hand.
The Team
The hands behind the work.
Directors, designers, and producers who have spent careers learning how a room behaves when no one is watching it.
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David Ndayishimiye
Director, Corporate Events
David produces the studio's largest gatherings — summits, launches, and benefits across Burundi and Rwanda — with the calm of a stage manager and the eye of an architect.
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Sofia Iradukunda
Director, Social Events
Sofia designs weddings and private dinners with an editorial sensibility, treating each table as a still life and each evening as a one-night exhibition.
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Marcus Nshuti
Director, Interior Design
Marcus leads residential and workplace interiors across the region, obsessed with the way material and light behave when no one is watching the room.
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Grace Bigirimana
Director, Visual 3D
Grace leads the studio's 3D rendering and field-study practice, building photoreal walkthroughs and measuring every site in person so clients can walk the room before a single stone is laid.
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Amara Niyonzima
Head of Community
Amara runs the studio's youth initiatives — Urumuri Youth, Materials for Makers, and the Malu & Malu Masterclass — and connects the studio to its partners across the region.
Begin
Every space holds a story
waiting to be staged.
Tell us the moment you want to create. We'll translate it into geometry, light, and intention — then bring it to life with the discipline of an atelier and the warmth of a host.