Kurt Merki Jr.
The optimizer and problem solver
His bicultural childhood and youth has fundamentally influenced his current way of creating. Kurt Merki Jr. creates dreams in the form of versatile products that offer solutions for different lifestyles. The Vero complete bathroom series he designed speaks for itself – timeless, elegant and the recipient of three consecutive awards.
Kurt Merki Jr.
Kurt Merki Jr. was born in Accra, Ghana, in 1978, the eldest son of Kurt Merki Sr., a Swiss master carpenter, and his Ghanaian wife, a fashion designer who had studied in London in the 1960s. He completed his training as a carpenter in his father’s furniture factory. In 1997, he moved to Switzerland, where he passed his master’s examination as a cabinetmaker in Lucerne in 1999. From 2001 to 2008, he worked as an interior designer for various architectural firms in Zurich. He then went to Milan to deepen his design knowledge at the Scuola Politecnica di Design. He also completed his master’s degree in interior and product design there. In 2009, he worked at the Antonio Citterio studio in Milan before moving back to Zurich a short time later to open his own design studio in 2010. He designed the Vero ceramics series and the C.1 series faucets for Duravit.
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