A practice of three, two cats, and a long workbench.
MÅNE Studio was founded in 2017 in a sixth-district apartment that we never quite stopped renovating. We design interiors for people who want their rooms to do less, more carefully.
Manifesto
Four convictions we have not yet outgrown.
A studio note from the partners — written once a year, revised whenever a room teaches us we were wrong.
Restraint is generous.
A room that asks little of you returns more. We design for the long quiet afternoon, not the first photograph.
Light is the first material.
Before colour, before texture, we draw the path of the sun through every room. Everything else is set against it.
Craft outlives style.
We commission joinery, plaster, and metalwork from people whose names we know. They sign the work. So do we.
A small list is a kind list.
Six to eight projects a year. One partner per project. We turn work away when we cannot give it our full attention.
Origin
Founded in a renovation that never quite ended.
Anna and Levente met on the staircase of a half-stripped pre-war building in 2015 — both there to look at the same flat. Two years and many lime-washed walls later, MÅNE Studio opened on the ground floor of that same building. The workbench has not moved since.nnThe practice grew slowly and on purpose. We now work across three countries, but the studio is still one room, two desks, and the cat who arrived with the lease.
A short history
Eight years, in twelve rooms.
Selected milestones — the first commissions, the first hire, the first time we were brave enough to say no.
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2017
A studio opens on Kazinczy.
Anna Vass and Levente Kádár found the practice in a 38-square-metre ground-floor flat. First commission: their landlord’s upstairs neighbour.
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2019
The first hospitality brief.
Folio, a small hotel in Copenhagen, becomes our first project outside Hungary — and our first lesson in working through translation.
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2021
Reka joins the studio.
Architect Reka Tóth becomes the third partner. The waiting list opens for the first time.
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2023
Published in three monographs.
Apartments in Vienna, Stockholm, and Lisbon are featured in Architecture HU, Dwell, and Wallpaper* in the same season.
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2026
A second room — but not a second studio.
We add a workshop two doors down for prototyping. The desk count remains, deliberately, at three.
The room itself
One bench. Three desks. One cat.
Visitors are sometimes surprised at how small the studio is. The bench is twelve metres long; the rest of the room is what is left over. Material trays live under it. Drawings live above it. The cat sleeps on whichever set is closer to a sunbeam.nnIf you cannot find us, follow the hum of a kettle.
The studio
Three people. One workbench.
Every project is led by a partner from first sketch to final walk-through. There are no associates between you and the people who designed the room.
Working with us
We open the studio to one apprentice every other year. Applications are read in March.
Visit the studio.
We hold open studio hours on the first Thursday of each month. Tea, biscuits, and a long table of materials to put your hands on.
