D'ARK ATELIER
D’Ark is a multidisciplinary atelier founded in 2020 by Italian architects Ivan Bello and Franklind Jesku. Based between Venice and Copenhagen, it operates as an architecture and interior design studio, a workshop for handcraft and lighting, and a platform for teaching and research. Behind the atelier is a close team of architects, technicians, academics, sculptors, and artisans, people brought together to collaborate across disciplines and share methods. The name d’ark carries a double reading: "de arkitektura,” meaning about architecture", and an intentional echo of "darkness", pointing to light, shadow, and the emotional depth of space. For d’ark, architecture is not only what is built, but also what is felt, handled, and learned through material practice. It is place to think, to test, and to build together.
Rooted in Venetian craft traditions and sharpened by Scandinavian clarity, d’ark develops timeless pieces that resist trend and spectacle. Italian marble and stone often anchor the work for their density, veining, and endurance, paired with metal and carefully tuned finishes that catch, absorb, or diffuse light. Objects and interiors are conceived as one continuous language: structural, tactile, and quietly dramatic. Traditional techniques are respected, while contemporary fabrication and precise detailing expand what craft can be today. Whether designing a room, a lamp, or a sculptural object, the studio treats atmosphere as a material in itself, building calm, tension, and presence through proportion, texture, and the choreography of light and shadow. In Venice, making is slow and exact; in Copenhagen, ideas are refined, translated into clean geometries and clarity.







