Benedikt Josef is an interior designer based in New York.

Since founding his studio, he has formed an approach grounded in rationalism yet guided by the senses, where honest architecture and purposeful objects shape experience rather than ornament. His interiors are composed and refined, yet carry an undercurrent of subversion, showing that restraint can hold desire, and stillness can reveal complexity.

Born in Germany and raised in Australia, Benedikt studied architecture in Melbourne and Berlin before working with McBride Charles Ryan, WorkAC, and serving as Design Director for Daun Curry, working across architecture and interiors as a single, cohesive practice.

Rather than applying a fixed aesthetic, Benedikt works through method. Focusing on private residential work, he begins each commission with a close reading of his clients’ values and contradictions, creating environments that are singular and inevitable. The result is a home that feels not designed, but discovered.

Favoring nuance over spectacle, Benedikt works from the belief that meaning outweighs style or trend. His work avoids easy classification, marked instead by a quiet intensity that invites reflection.