A Unique Place Where Art Meets Appetite

At Mawimbi, KASA, and Café Amka, the walls don’t decorate a room — they hold a story. And in that story, women are always at the centre.

Step into any of these three spaces and you feel it before you name it. Something on the walls is watching you, warmly. Bold, undeniable, present in a way that shifts the quality of the air before the menu even reaches your hands. This is not decoration, it is intention.

The works belong to Gian Paolo Tomasi, an Italian artist whose canvases have become the quiet pulse of each venue.

Portraits of women, painted with the kind of gaze that grants dignity rather than spectacle, line walls from the Coast to Nairobi’s city centre.

Tomasi’s collaboration with the teams behind each space has grown into a living curatorial dialogue: selecting pieces that each carry their own identity, while speaking together in a unified voice across three rooms.

“The visual language is anchored in women. Portraits speak to strength and identity; cultural styling reaches across geographies and time; bold expressions radiate the kind of confidence that doesn’t ask permission,” elaborates Thomas Waweru of Pergamon Hospitality.

These are not merely figures on canvas, they are statements. Placed at eye level, in every shift of light, at every table, they say: women belong here, at the centre of the room, at the heart of the experience.

“These spaces offer a daily stage where women are seen, centred, celebrated, not in a single moment, but in every meal, every morning, every conversation,” added Thomas. “Beyond the canvases, the story continues in the room itself, in women who welcome, lead, create, and hold these spaces together every day.”

This is the quiet manifesto in the curation: elegance and power, tradition and challenge, held in balance. The dining room becomes a forum. A story unfolds with every course. And the walls, without raising their voice,  remind us that women’s narratives belong in life’s everyday rooms, not only in galleries.

So come for the coffee, for the seafood, for the coastal air. But look up. Pause. Let Tomasi’s work meet your gaze. You may arrive for the meal. You will leave having been seen, and that is the whole point.

Each time you step into these spaces, Tomasi’s women meet your gaze with quiet certainty — a reminder that this is a place where women matter. Where presence matters. Where you matter.

Women seen. Celebrated. Carried forward, in the art that surrounds you, and in the room that was made for you.

The artist: Gian Paolo Tomasi

Italian painter and collaborator to Mawimbi, KASA, and Café Amka. Tomasi’s curated series anchors each space in a visual language that honours feminine strength, cultural identity, and beauty — not as subjects observed, but as presences felt. His works don’t furnish a room. They give it a reason to exist.

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