#studiomunge

Studio Munge, a world-class multidisciplinary design firm known for their diversity in design that is constantly evolving in the best of ways led by passionately creative Alessandro Munge. Having matured in the last few years their style is settling down a bit, the designs they are currently producing for the new Park Hyatt in LA will most certainly set new standards for this highly transformative and dynamic company.

By Alessandro Munge: Every day brings new sources, a word, an image, a scent. The world truly is a boundless source of inspiration if you are open to receiving that gift. I really enjoy working out early morning, it helps me relieve a lot of the day to day stress allowing for a much more receptive experience of that generous world. Emotions is the mortar we always build our projects with. We think beyond walls and floors and imagine the shared experience. We create an atmosphere that people yearn to return to because it hums with human connection – transforming time, deepening emotion and fueling interactions.

The people and their experience is always where it all starts: the guests, the chefs, the owners, etc. For example we're designing a fantastic hotel in Brooklyn NYC for which we created an entire narrative around a sophisticated writer taking a break from the city, his background, his relationship with the environment, his interest in brutalist furniture. It results in very authentic intimate interiors. Another hotel we’re working on in Brooklyn as well, has a remarkable restaurant space we’re designing for the iconic NoHo hospitality group. We based it on the chef’s Italian background and the childhood memories of Nona’s dining room. It will be a gorgeous, highly curated space reminiscent of the old continent yet very modern in its design execution.

Alessandro always admired architects with strong vision and sense of direction such as Tadao Ando and Frank Gehry whom Studio Munge will be working with for a very exciting collaborative multi-tower project in their hometown Toronto. Born to design, what Alessandro Munge will always apply in his work is Travel. He believes that only by doing so extensively, one can truly understand human behaviour and the emotions that link us all.