Anki Gneib was born and raised in London but studied interior architecture and furniture design at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. Her degree project was the storage unit Brutus for the company CBI. In 1993 Gneib founded her own design studio in Stockholm from where she works on a wide range of projects, such as residential architecture, interior design for commercial spaces with focus on facility branding, as well as furniture, lamps and industrial design products.
Gneib worked at Wall to Wall Arkitektur och Design in Stockholm from 1996-2003 where she among many other missions designed the new entrance at the East Asian Museum in Stockholm. From the late 1990’s Gneib produces her own designs, in her own name, along with freelance work for brands like Adea, Klong, IKEA, Varashin, Thonet and Nola. In 2009 she designed the armchair Perfo for Frag, made of a metal frame with perforated leather seat and back that is a part of the collection at the Museum of Furniture Studies in Stockholm.
As an interior architect Gneib is well known for the colorful and over the top office for Swedish gaming company King in Stockholm 2015, where fun and magic were the corner stones. King’s office soon sparked a trend in the Swedish gaming industry.
Anki Gneib has participated in several exhibtions such as the Excellent Swedish Design Award in 1996, Swedish Style in Tokyo 2001, Swedish Love Stories in Milan 2009, Young Swedish Design – past, present, future in Stockholm 2017 and Female Traces at Museum of Furniture Studies in 2019/2020.
