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Built from the ground up
I have stood on site as well as at the drawing board. Details are designed the way they are actually built — fewer surprises for your contractor.
About Sayville Ltd
Four decades of designing and building
From villas and residential developments to London restaurants, cafés and apartments — a career spent shaping spaces end to end.
I graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Yıldız University in 1985 and began my career building and decorating villas — learning early on how a design behaves once it leaves the drawing board. Those first houses taught me the lesson I still work by: a drawing is only ever a promise, and the building is where the promise is kept.
From there I moved into development. I acquired land across Turkey, designed and constructed residential buildings, and delivered them to market. Owning every stage — site, structure, interiors, sale — changed how I design. Every line I draw now carries a builder's question behind it: can this be built on budget, on time, and will it live well?
Since 2021 I have been based in London, offering design, decoration and consultancy for restaurants, cafés and apartment flats. The setting is new; the discipline is the same. London's hospitality spaces are tight, expensive and unforgiving — exactly the conditions where forty years of practice earns its keep.
İbrahim, Founder — Sayville Ltd
How I work
“Good design is not decoration. It is problem-solving — the beauty comes from solving the problem well.”
A restaurant must turn tables smoothly from kitchen to bar. A café must fit its counter, machines and seating into a few square metres without feeling cramped. A small home must waste nothing. I design each space around its daily life first — the flow, the light, the wear it will take — and then make it beautiful. Warm materials, honest construction and details that age well do the rest.
The career in three chapters
1985
Yıldız University
Graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and moved straight into practice on villa construction and decoration.
1990s–2020s
Development years in Turkey
Bought and developed land, built residential buildings and sold them — full control of design, construction and delivery.
2021–today
London studio
Design, decoration and consultancy for restaurants, cafés and apartment flats across London.
What that history brings to your project
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Hospitality know-how
Restaurants and cafés live or die on flow: kitchen to table, counter to seat, door to till. Layouts are shaped around how the business actually runs.
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One pair of hands
Concept, detail design, contractor drawings and styling come from one studio — decisions stay consistent from first sketch to opening day.
Planning a restaurant, café or apartment project? Tell me about the space and we'll take it from there.
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