Our Team
Lean by design,
obsessive by nature.
We're a small, international crew based in Lisbon, designers, project managers, makers, who happen to also be the people who answer your emails. No account managers, no hand-offs, no layers between you and the work.
We build relationships with the same architects, tradespeople, and craftspeople project after project, because trust compounds, and rushed relationships show up in the finished room.
You work with us. Not a department.
Welcome at itsk.studio
About itsk.studio
Founded in 2015, itsk.studio is a boutique interior design and furnishing studio in Lisbon, built for people who've decided to make Portugal home, whether that's a full renovation or a single well-chosen room.
We don't believe good design has to be loud, or that "curated" should mean expensive-looking chaos.
Our point of view is closer to restraint than accumulation: fewer, better decisions, made with intention.
Architecture and furnishing aren't separate disciplines to us, they're one conversation, from where a wall moves to which lamp sits beside the bed.
The result should feel inevitable, not decorated. Like it was always going to look this way.
DESIGN
TASTE
POINT OF VIEW
KURT
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LEEUW
Founder & Creative Director
I didn't take the straight path here, and I'm glad I didn't.
I studied interior architecture at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels, then spent over a decade somewhere else entirely, in fashion, in business development, moving through six cities across three countries before Lisbon finally stuck.
I've renovated my own spaces more times than I can count, long before any of it had a name or a business card attached.
Twelve years in Lisbon later, itsk.studio is built around the studio I wished existed when I first arrived, one that treats an expat's blind trust seriously, that's design-led without losing the thread back to how someone actually lives in a room, not just how it photographs.
This isn't abstract to me. It's about how a space makes you feel at 7am with coffee, not just how it looks in a portfolio. Function and feeling, working together, or it doesn't count.
If you're planning something, a move, a renovation, a total reinvention of a space, I'd genuinely like to hear about it.
