MŪVEK

Based in Cape Town, South Africa, MŪVEK creates considered products that elevate the ordinary functions of everyday life. Creative Director Chris van Niekerk, an architect by training, pursues a distinct perspective in designing MŪVEK's furniture and objects to ensure their seamless integration into a broader artistic context. Produced in close collaboration with local craftspeople, the products showcase a sophisticated use of tectonic materials and forms that extend from van Niekerk's broader architectural methodology.

The word MŪVEK, Hungarian for 'works', carries multiple connotations that capture some of the principles at work in the designs. MŪVEK can refer to the works in a word like artworks. At the same time, it carries the industrial associations in a term like engineering works. It is at once an individual, artistic expression used to describe fine products and industrial manufacture.

For Cape Town Furniture Week 2024, MŪVEK is exhibiting their MŪ192 Chair in the official CTFW New Design Exhibition.