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About
Studio
TOGU Design is an award-winning high-end residential design studio based in Miami, shaping exceptional private homes, bespoke interiors, and refined living environments across Miami, the Caribbean, and select international destinations.
The studio offers a complete design vision led by François Guglielmina, a French-trained designer, and works in collaboration with independently licensed Architects of Record where required by law.
The studio is defined by a multidisciplinary design approach in which space, proportion, materiality, light, and landscape are brought into a precise and coherent dialogue. Each project is developed as a singular response to place, lifestyle, and the ambitions of the client, with a constant focus on clarity, elegance, and long-term relevance.
From waterfront residences and penthouses to custom private homes, TOGU Design creates environments that feel effortless, composed, and deeply resolved.
The work is characterized by restraint, precision, and a quiet sense of luxury, where every decision contributes to a larger spatial vision.
Collaboration is central to the practice. Working closely with clients, consultants, craftsmen, and specialist teams,
TOGU Design develops tailored design solutions with consistency, refinement, and continuity from concept through design development and aesthetic coordination.
Francois Guglielmina
Principal
François Guglielmina leads TOGU Design with a singular vision for high-end residential design, bringing a refined sensibility to exceptional private homes, bespoke interiors, and elevated living environments.
A French-trained designer, active in Miami for over a decade, François brings more than two decades of multidisciplinary design experience shaped by proportion, materiality, spatial composition, and an exacting attention to detail. His approach is both rigorous and intuitive, guided by the belief that the most enduring spaces are those where elegance, clarity, and livability exist in perfect balance.
Working at every scale of the design vision, François develops each project as a coherent whole, with close creative involvement from the earliest concept through design development and aesthetic coordination. The result is living environments that feel timeless, deeply resolved, and quietly distinctive.
Why TOGU Design
What makes a residence memorable is not the permit that authorized it.
It is the strength of the spatial idea, the precision of the proportions, the coherence between exterior and interior, the way light enters a room at the hour it will be used, and the continuity between a material palette and the landscape it inhabits.
That is what TOGU Design brings to a project.
Many practices separate the envelope from the interior. One logic shapes the shell, another shapes the living experience. The result can be competent, but it rarely feels like the work of a single mind.
TOGU Design works differently. The spatial concept, the interiors, the materials, the furnishings, and the overall atmosphere are developed as a single idea from the outset. For permitted projects in the United States, TOGU Design works in collaboration with licensed Architects of Record and specialist consultants where required.
Clients who come to TOGU Design are not simply looking for a standard service model. They are looking for authorship, continuity of vision, and a residence conceived as a whole.
Vision
A residence is not an object. It is a place where a particular life will unfold, often for decades, sometimes for generations. That conviction shapes everything I do.
Before anything else, I work with the site. A house should feel as if it has always belonged there: settled into its land, oriented toward the right view, open to the prevailing breeze, shaded where the sun is hardest. The site is the first material. From there comes flow: the way one room releases into the next, the way a corridor turns and frames the water, the way light enters a space at the precise hour the room will be used. When the flow is right, the house lives by itself.
This discipline I learned from a long study of modernism, and particularly from Mies van der Rohe: a sense of space that is free but controlled, fluid but rigorous, organized by a logic that is legible, a calm and lasting order in which nothing is decorative for its own sake. It is also why I refuse the residence that turns its back on its site, that ignores the landscape, that overplays the gesture and forgets the place. A house in Miami should not look the same as a house in Aspen or in Paris.
What I work toward, with each client and each site, is something singular. Not a style. Not a signature. A residence that could not have been built anywhere else, for anyone else, in any other way. A house that is fluid, exact, in dialogue with its landscape, and that, ten years from now, still feels right.