Twelve people who care about the quarter-turn of a door handle.

Atelier Linnea began in 2012 with a single commission: a 38 m² flat in Neukölln, a budget of €9,000, and a client who trusted us with her only home.

We built that flat with our own hands — the shelving, the bench, the bed — and learned the lesson that still shapes the studio: a detail you make yourself is a detail you cannot ignore. Today we run a joinery workshop in Wedding with four carpenters, and a design team of eight, but the founding habit survives. Someone from the studio is on site every week of every build.

Over the years the work has grown from single rooms to penthouses, hotels, restaurants and offices in Berlin, Copenhagen, Vienna and Zurich. The commissions changed; the way we work did not. We still start every project the same way — by listening longer than feels comfortable.

We are not a big studio and we intend to stay that way. A handful of new projects a year, clients who become friends, and rooms that are still working beautifully decades after we hand over the keys.