About Kapeti | Servet Yuksel BIID Interior Designer

The Practice

Kapeti Interior Architecture was founded in London as a design and build studio with a single, clear purpose: to deliver interior architecture projects from first concept to final handover — under one roof, with one team, and without the fragmentation that typically defines the UK construction industry.

Since 2014, Kapeti has completed over 50 projects across London and beyond — restaurants, offices, private residences, boutique hotels and specialist environments — consistently delivering on time, within budget and to a standard that clients remember.

Our Approach

The UK interior design industry is structured by habit. Designers design. Contractors build. Project managers coordinate. Somewhere between these handovers, the client's original vision gets diluted, budgets drift, and timelines slip.

Kapeti was built to solve this.

We approach every project first as designers — then as builders. Technical decisions are made through a design lens, so the details, interfaces and on-site choices protect the concept rather than compromise it. We coordinate everything in-house: interior architecture, construction, MEP systems (mechanical, electrical, HVAC), bespoke joinery, FF&E procurement and final styling.

The result is a single point of accountability. Clients don't manage multiple parties. They manage one relationship — us.

About - Kapeti Interior Architecture

The Person Behind the Practice

Servet Yuksel is the founder and director of Kapeti Interior Architecture, a design and build practice based in Chelsea, London.

Servet's background is deliberately unconventional for a designer. Educated in material engineering and industrial product design in Turkey, and subsequently at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK, he developed an early understanding of how things are actually made — not just how they look on paper. Before establishing Kapeti, he spent years providing design consultancy and project services to international firms across multiple countries, giving him a commercial perspective that most design studios simply don't have.

He is a registered member of the British Institute of Interior Design (BIID) — the UK's leading professional body for interior designers — a recognition earned through the quality and complexity of completed projects, including Efes Premium Wimbledon and Efes Plus Richmond, two of London's most talked-about restaurant interiors in recent years.

Servet works with clients in English and Turkish. Kapeti has delivered projects for clients from Turkey, the Gulf region and across Europe — bringing the same integrated design and build approach to every project, regardless of origin or location.

Why Clients Choose Kapeti

Speed without compromise. We deliver complex projects on timelines that most London firms won't commit to — because we control every stage in-house.

Design-led execution. We don't hand over drawings and step back. We remain present from the first site visit to the moment we hand over the keys.

Transparent pricing. No surprises. Every project begins with a clear budget breakdown. Variations are discussed openly, not discovered at invoice stage.

Global manufacturing, local delivery. Bespoke furniture and joinery is designed by us, produced by trusted manufacturers in UK, Turkey and Portugal, and installed on site by our local contracting team — delivering exceptional quality at exceptional value.

One point of contact, anywhere. Whether you are based in London, Istanbul, Dubai or abroad, you work directly with Servet — not a rotating team. Decisions are made quickly, communication is clear, and the project moves forward without the delays that come from managing multiple parties across different time zones.