Residential
Apartments, family homes, pied-à-terres. From raw plan to last linen, calibrating proportion before pattern.
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Quiet interiors, considered living.
MÅNE Studio is a Budapest-based interior practice working at the slow end of design — residences, hospitality, and small commercial spaces shaped by light, texture, and restraint.
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Practice
Three quiet disciplines.
Every brief begins with the same question — what does this room want to feel like? The answer shapes everything that follows.
Hospitality
Hotels, restaurants, retail. Guests should feel held — never performed at. Materials that age legibly.
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Art direction
Editorial sets, brand environments, small architectural follies. Short engagements that sharpen the larger ones.
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Six rooms from the last two years.
A small practice means a short list. Each project below was led by a partner, photographed in natural light, and lived in before it was published.
Philosophy
Begin with restraint. End with warmth.
Minimalism, for us, is not an aesthetic — it is a method. We strip a room down until only its proportions remain, then add only what the room asks for: a table at the right height, a lamp at the right warmth, a single soft material against three hard ones.nnThe result is interiors that feel calm on the first visit and resolved on the fiftieth.
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Step one
Listening.
Two unhurried conversations on site. We measure rooms, light, and the rhythm of the people who live in them — and we ask what should never change.
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Step two
Drawing.
Plan, elevation, and a single mood board. We commit early to a material family — three soft, three hard — and stop adding when the brief is met.
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Step three
Building.
We tender to craftspeople we have worked with for years. Site visits weekly. Decisions on site, not over email.
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Step four
Leaving.
A walk-through, a care manual, and an open phone line for the first season. Then the room belongs to you.
What clients say.
Three years on, the rooms still feel like the day they were finished — and somehow more so.
They removed everything we did not need and added one shelf we did not know we wanted. The flat finally feels like a home.
Emília Bartha
Residence, District VI
A practice that knows when to stop. That is the rarest discipline in this trade.
Sára Fülöp
Editor, Architecture HU
The studio drew our kitchen 1:1 on the workshop floor and asked us to walk through it before tendering anything. We caught three mistakes.
Olav Engebretsen
Apartment renovation, Oslo
The reading library at Folio is now the most-used room in the hotel. We did not see that coming. MÅNE clearly did.
Astrid Mølgaard
General manager, Hotel Folio
They removed everything we did not need and added one shelf we did not know we wanted. The flat finally feels like a home.
Emília Bartha
Residence, District VI
A practice that knows when to stop. That is the rarest discipline in this trade.
Sára Fülöp
Editor, Architecture HU
The studio drew our kitchen 1:1 on the workshop floor and asked us to walk through it before tendering anything. We caught three mistakes.
Olav Engebretsen
Apartment renovation, Oslo
The reading library at Folio is now the most-used room in the hotel. We did not see that coming. MÅNE clearly did.
Astrid Mølgaard
General manager, Hotel Folio
We hired MÅNE because the work was quiet. We kept them because the process was, too.
Henrik Lindqvist
Hotel Folio, Copenhagen
They asked us to sit in the empty rooms for a week before drawing a single line. By the end of it, we knew what we wanted.
Margit Halász
Family home, Buda
Three quotes in writing, no hourly billing, no mark-ups. After ten years of renovations, I had stopped expecting that.
Tomás Reis
Townhouse, Lisbon
A room you grow into, not out of. Six years on, we have not changed a thing — and not wanted to.
Dr. Júlia Németh
Pied-à-terre, Vienna
We hired MÅNE because the work was quiet. We kept them because the process was, too.
Henrik Lindqvist
Hotel Folio, Copenhagen
They asked us to sit in the empty rooms for a week before drawing a single line. By the end of it, we knew what we wanted.
Margit Halász
Family home, Buda
Three quotes in writing, no hourly billing, no mark-ups. After ten years of renovations, I had stopped expecting that.
Tomás Reis
Townhouse, Lisbon
A room you grow into, not out of. Six years on, we have not changed a thing — and not wanted to.
Dr. Júlia Németh
Pied-à-terre, Vienna
Common questions.
A short list of the questions we are asked at almost every first meeting.
Where are you based?
The studio is on Kazinczy utca in Budapest’s District VII. We work across Europe but every project is drawn at the same workbench in Hungary.
How small is too small a project?
A single-room consultation is the smallest engagement we offer — a half-day with one of the partners. There is no minimum square metre.
Do you work outside Hungary?
Yes. Roughly half of our projects are abroad — most often Denmark, Sweden, Austria, and Portugal. Travel costs are quoted up front.
What is your aesthetic, in two sentences?
Quiet rooms, made of a small number of honest materials, calibrated to natural light. Restraint first; warmth always.
Can we visit the studio?
Yes — first Thursdays of the month, 14:00–18:00. Please write ahead so we have tea ready.
A small studio. A short waiting list.
We take on six to eight projects each year. If you have a room — or a building — in mind, the earliest conversation is always the best one.