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MEGAN GREHL design studio is a practice of empowerment; elevating each detail, each design, each client and each team member to their highest potential by accentuating strengths and melding together each unique perspective. Since 2014, our diverse team has married the typically disparate practices of Architect, Interior Designer, Product Designer and Construction Manager into one inextricable thought process. It is from this vantage point as a multi-faceted, collective unit that we can craft beautiful experiences and ensure cohesion from ideation to completion.

With each project, we cultivate a specific design concept that strives to reach the perfect alchemy of monumentality and intricacy, while capturing our client’s style and functional needs and injecting MEGAN GREHL’s taste, boldness and intrigue. Once this essence has been distilled, the resulting design language is channeled throughout the project, saturating all decisions from the architectural massing to the custom hardware mechanisms to the commissioned art installations to the hidden storage features. This holistic approach allows each project to reverberate in its uniqueness while embodying the MEGAN GREHL aesthetic of sculptural gestures, unexpected proportions, and layered textures. The potent result is a seduction of the mind, body, and soul.

We believe that design is not limited by location, but that its creation should always question its context. Through our process we analyze all of our spaces by 3D modeling and even in virtual reality. In this way we are able to analyze dimensions, test configurations, and confirm scale and proportion of all specifications, without relying on intuition. Our designs come together seamlessly because we value accuracy in our pursuit of the intangible; the experiential. This synthesis of technical and emotional skills was celebrated by Marcel Wanders at Salone de Mobile when he described MEGAN GREHL as “a true artist” and “a sophisticated, tactile designer.”

MEGAN GREHL is a six-person studio composed of international, passionate, fearless women who are collectively proficient in English, Mandarin, French, Spanish, Italian and Korean. We pride ourselves in nurturing client relationships and sustaining top quality deliverables around the globe with projects from Shanghai to New York, the French Alps to Miami. Our experience ranges from boutique commercial spaces and bespoke residences to Fortune 500 branding revitalizations and mountain-top ski resorts. We are eager to bring our skills and talent to other locations and clients, domestic and abroad, while maintaining our fiercely maternal commitment to our designs and their meticulous development.

MEGAN GREHL | PRINCIPal

Megan Aileen Grehl is an interior designer, stylist, and entrepreneur living in New York. Prior to receiving her education at the University of Pennsylvania, Megan lived in Hong Kong, Beijing, Taipei, Tokyo, and Shanghai for over 20 years. As a result, Megan is fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese. With an innate sensitivity to design, style and curation, Megan Aileen is the embodiment of the bridge between eastern and western design values.

CÔME MÉNAGE | PRINCIPal

Côme began his architectural career in the US with his Masters of Architecture at Columbia University. He gained recognition at ODA as an associate architect, and he helped bring the firm from a 10 to 70+ person operation. He led many large-scale luxury projects in New York, France, and Shanghai, with his expertise in facade design.

ANA PATRICIA GOMEZ MARTINEZ | studio director

Ana is an architectural designer with experience in high-end residential and hospitality spaces such as Michelin star restaurants and 5 star hotels. Her professional career allowed her to work around the globe with projects in China, Australia, Spain and the United States. She received her BS in Interior Architecture and Design from the School of Architecture in the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Ana is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese. She has a strong interest for different cultures and languages, while studying in Architecture School she obtained a minor in Portuguese and International Business.

GUNES KURTULAN | OPERATION MANAGER | FINANCIAL & MARKETING DIRECTOR

Born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, Gunes considers herself to be born into the architecture world. With an architect as a father and a mother in design management, she started gaining experience in her family’s business from a very early age. She pursued her architectural education in Pratt Institute, which exposed her to the New York scene of architecture and design early in her studies. Developing her interest in management and media, after receiving her Bachelor of Architecture degree, Gunes focused on the operation & management side of the business as well as the marketing and development. Gunes has been working with Megan and Côme since 2020, managing the administration, financial and marketing efforts. She is fluent in Turkish and English.

samira haddad | Senior designer

Samira is an architectural designer born and raised in Abu Dhabi, UAE, where she received a French education. Samira pursued her studies at USEK in Lebanon, which provided her with valuable knowledge and skills in the field of design. She developed extensive experience across various design sectors, particularly in F&B and Commercial projects. Throughout her career, Samira has had the opportunity to work on numerous projects in the Gulf area, which has aided in her management of her current projects in Europe and the Middle East. Samira is fluent in French, Arabic and English.

Ezgi Sari | senior designer

Ezgi is both an interior architect and furniture designer. Ezgi has been working in New York for the past four years. She had experience working as a lead designer at a high end furniture company based in Brooklyn, where she acquired extensive knowledge in furniture manufacturing and installation. Prior to New York, Ezgi has worked in Paris, Luxembourg, and Istanbul. She is fluent in English, French, and Turkish.

suki wang | DESIGNER

Suki is an architectural designer who was born in Hubei, China and moved to the United States at the age of 15. She pursued Interior Architecture at School of the Art Institute of Chicago and earned a Master’s Degree from Pratt Institute. During her time in graduate school, she had the opportunity to participate in a study abroad program in Copenhagen. She is fluent in Mandarin and English. Like Megan, Suki believes that powerful design is connected inside and out. 

nina da | architectural designer

Nina Da is an architectural designer born in Shanghai, China. She moved to the US at the age of 14, and she recently graduated from University of Miami with a Bachelor of Architecture and a minor in creative advertising in May 2023, as she has a passion in both architectural and graphic design. She has had experience working on residential and hospitality projects in Chinese architecture firms.

Juan Francisco Uría | ARchitectural designer

Juan Francisco Uría is an Ecuadorian architect with studies at the Universidad Internacional de Cataluña, Barcelona, and graduated from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador. He has worked on several housing projects as both designer and construction manager in Quito. Before joining Megan Grehl, he graduated with a Master in Architecture from the University of Miami, specializing in housing design and 3D printing application.