Incorporated in 2015, Bando x Seidel Meersseman is a multi-disciplinary interior design firm dedicated to creating timeless modern interiors. Principals Kota Bando, Robert Seidel, and Caroline Meersseman have worked together for fifteen years designing interiors for the world’s leading developers, hoteliers, and restaurateurs; in the process we discovered a shared sensibility that inspired us to create BxSM.


We believe that design should be simple, modern, rational, comfortable, and inviting, and that for every project there is a unique minimalism waiting to be discovered. We are obsessed with plans, materials, and details. With years of construction experience in architecture, interior design, and industrial design, we bring an uncommon dedication to flawless execution to each project, large or small.

KOTA BANDO

Associate Degree, Scenographic Design, Musashino Art University (Tokyo) B.F.A., Interior Design, Pratt Institute, 1999.

Kota Bando was born and raised in Tokyo. He has fifteen years of experience in New York City interior design offices. From 2004-2011 he worked as a designer and team leader at Yabu Pushelberg in New York City; since 2011 he has been the proprietor of the design firms Monolayer and Bando Design.

ROBERT SEIDEL

B.S. Architecture, University of Virginia, 1995. >M.A., Humanities and Social Thought, New York University, 2000. M. Arch., Princeton University, 2003.

Robert Seidel was born in Chicago and raised in Lafayette, Indiana. He has worked in architecture and interior design for fifteen years; from 2007-2013 he was a designer, project leader, project manager, and office technical advisor at Yabu Pushelberg in New York City.

CAROLINE MEERSSEMAN

Dottore in Filosofia, Universitå Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan), 2002. A.A.S., Interior Design, Parsons School of Design, New School for Social Research, 2007.

Caroline Meersseman was born and raised in Como, Italy, but is nonetheless officially Belgian. She was a designer and team leader at Yabu Pushelberg from 2007-2016. Together with Robert Seidel, Caroline tought Studio III, Hospitality Design, in the A.A.S. program at Parsons School of Design. Caroline joined BxSM in January 2017.

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