28/09/2026
There’s been an interesting conversation recently around the difference between interior design and interior architecture.
For me, there’s never been any suggestion that I’m an architect. In the UK, that title comes with formal training, registration and years of technical expertise, and rightly so.
What I do believe, though, is that experience, creativity and vision have their own value.
My own learning has come through nearly 40 years of working in interiors, including time with one of the leading architectural practices in Knightsbridge. I learnt by being involved, by watching, by asking questions and, most importantly, by working on an enormous range of projects and with very different clients.
That experience shapes the way I look at a building.
I’m always considering the architecture, how the space works, how it flows, how people will live in it and how the interior should respond to the building itself.
But the best projects are collaborative.
An architect brings the technical knowledge required to make a building work, to make it safe and fit for purpose. An interior designer brings a different perspective, one rooted in how the space feels, functions and reflects the people who live there.
So I would still describe myself very simply as an interior designer who considers the architecture of the building.
My offering is experience, vision and nearly four decades of working with people and spaces. And I think there’s real value in that.
