About

SANAYI313 is an Istanbul-based multidisciplinary design practice co-founded by two brothers, interior architect Enis Karavil and entrepreneur Amir Karavil. Founded in 2015, in a converted auto repair shop in the industrial district of Istanbul, the studio has triggered an urban transformation in the area and its emergence as a haven for the creative community.

In varied typologies and scales, SANAYI313’s interior projects range from renovations to new builds across residential and commercial environments throughout the world. Creative Director Enis Karavil’s “maximalist expressions in minimalist details” approach forms the basis of the studio’s main design principles, while eclecticism, refinement, authenticity, elegance, timelessness, and functionality remain the common thread among all projects. As part of SANAYI313’s spatial aesthetic expressions, the studio also designs a growing line of furniture and home accessories that are currently represented through major design galleries abroad.

Broadening the scope of their work to encompass different creative outlets, the practice integrates the SANAYI313 approach into other fields such as fashion and gastronomy to compose limited-time-only projects and collaborations.

The physical studio also doubles a retail space featuring one-of-a-kind vintage pieces hand-picked by Enis Karavil on trips around Europe that are harmoniously blended with the SANAYI313 product range.

As a means to communicate with its community on a continual basis, SANAYI313 runs an online publication and a bookish annual print magazine dedicated to contemporary culture and creativity under the title of SANAYI313 PAPER. Headed by editor-in-chief, Sidni Karavil, the magazine
delivers insightful briefings through a mix of in-depth reportage, interviews and photography, and it is distributed locally and internationally at various locations

Since founding, SANAYI313 has garnered international and national design awards and commendations, including Elle Style “The Place of The Year” Award in 2015 and “Best Mixed-Use of Interior’’ by the European International Property Awards in 2017. Enis Karavil was named “The Interior Architect of the Year” in 2018 by Edida- Elle Decoration and in 2022 by Maison Francaise. Karavil also featured in Andrew Martin’s “Interior Design Review”, 2016.