A small studio,
by design.
Tessvik began because the founders kept watching beautiful designs fail at execution — over budget, with substituted materials, missing the opening date by months. The studio was built to close that gap. Eleven people, a contractor network we vouch for, and a hard ceiling on how many projects we'll take in a year.
Sara Veld
Sara spent eight years at a large hospitality design firm in New York before moving to Austin in 2018. She had led design on two boutique hotel openings and one restaurant group rollout, and she had also seen — repeatedly — the gap between the rendered concept and the room a guest walks into.
Tessvik is the studio she wished she could have hired then: small enough that the same person who pitches you also signs your drawings, and structured enough to actually open on the day you committed to.
She obsesses over: lighting, the back-of-house behind the front-of-house, and how a space sounds before anyone speaks in it.