Founded in Los Angeles in 2024 by designer and builder Zack Nestel-Patt, Ah Um Design Studio is built around a mindset that allows for uninhibited exploration and experimentation, leading to designs that feel dynamic, approachable, and deeply personal. This exploration pays tribute to the inspiration for the studio name, the iconic Charles Mingus album ‘Mingus Ah Um.‘

The result is an aesthetic that deeply reflects thehuman hand that crafted it, challenging traditional concepts of luxury, celebrating imperfections, wear, and memory. The signuture of every Ah Um Piece is an underleying embedded ‘‘emotional texutre‘ created by the wear of living with objects and the hands that made them.