studio KMJ

studio KMJ is the design practice of Kurt Merki Jr., opened in Zurich in 2010 and based today in Dübendorf, Switzerland. Born in Accra in 1978 to a Swiss master carpenter and a Ghanaian fashion designer, Merki trained as a carpenter in his father’s furniture workshop before studying interior and product design in Milan.

The studio works across product design, interiors, retail and naval projects. Its output includes the Vero bathroom furniture series for Duravit, which received a Red Dot: Best of the Best, an Iconic Award and an iF Product Design Award, the flacon for the perfume Scent of Africa, and store concepts for KochOptik and Läderach Chocolatier Suisse, including the flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York.