Concept & planning
We start with the survey and the sun path, not a mood board. Plans, sections and a written spatial brief that everyone — client, contractor, planner — can argue with early and cheaply.
SurveySpace planningDaylight study
Taking two commissions for spring
Rooms that earn their light.
An interior architecture studio working on hospitality, retail and private homes. We draw with daylight, honest materials and a survey nobody skipped — then stay on site until it is actually built that way.
On the boardsHarbour House · 340 m²Boutique hotel · concept stage
- Studio
- Two cities
- Team
- 4 designers
- Founded
- 2016
64projects completed
10years in practice
18k m²drawn and delivered
3design awards
01 — Selected projects
Choose a project to open its case studyThree rooms worth walking into
Boutique hotel · 2025
A 24-room hotel in a former grain store
Thick masonry, tiny windows and a protected façade — the brief was to make it feel generous without cutting a single new opening.
24rooms delivered
Hero shot — reception, wide, daylight
Guest room detail
Joinery close-up
What we did
- Re-planned the ground floor so daylight from the courtyard reaches the reception and the bar without a corridor in the way.
- Kept the original timber structure exposed and detailed all new joinery to sit clear of it, so the two never fight for attention.
- Specified a three-layer lighting scheme — wash, task, candle-level — dimmed on one scene controller for evening service.
- Drew the full joinery package for headboards, minibars and reception, made by a single workshop to hold the finish consistent.
- Ran weekly site visits through a nine-month build and closed the snag list before opening rather than after.
Scope
Concept designSpace planningHeritage liaisonLightingJoinery packageFF&ESite supervision
Role
Lead designer · full scopeMar 2025 — Feb 202602 — Services
Concept to keys in hand
Materials & light
Palettes chosen for how they age, not how they photograph on day one. Lighting laid out layer by layer so a room reads well at 9am and at midnight.
Material boardsLighting designColour
Technical drawings
Full construction and joinery packages, coordinated with structure and services, dimensioned to the millimetre a joiner will actually cut to.
Construction setJoinery detailsPermits
Site supervision
The part most studios hand off. We keep a designer on site through delivery, so the detail that survives is the one that was drawn.
Site visitsSnaggingHandover
Furniture & fit-out
Specification, procurement and bespoke pieces made with workshops we have used for years — scheduled so nothing arrives three weeks after opening.
FF&EBespokeProcurement
Cost & programme
A budget written at concept stage and tracked to completion, with the trade-offs named out loud while they are still choices.
Cost planTender supportProgramme
03 — Studio
How the practice grew
2024 — nowTwo studios · four designers
Hospitality as the core practice
Small hotels, restaurants and members' spaces, taken from first survey through opening night — with a designer on site every week of the build.
2020 — 2024Retail & workplace
Rollouts and the discipline they teach
Eleven stores across four countries on one detail manual — where we learned to draw something a stranger's contractor can build correctly without a phone call.
2016 — 2020Founded · private homes
One drawing board, apartment renovations
The studio opened on residential work: tight plans, older buildings, and clients who lived through the build. Most of our detailing habits date from then.
RecognitionSelected
Three awards, two monographs
Work published in regional design annuals and shortlisted for interior of the year twice — useful mostly because clients stopped asking for references.
04 — Contact
Have a space that isn’t working?
Send the plans, the budget range and the date you want to open. We reply within two working days and say no when we are not the right studio for it.