Inside the Studio
Our headquarters are on Burnsall Street, within a converted workshop just a few steps from London’s Kings Road—an iconic postcode that represents decades of independent creativity, experimentalism and eccentricity. The lofty creative space houses our team of free-thinking designers, charged with the studio’s ethos of creating richly imaginative interiors that stand the test of time.
In the studio you’ll find many of our bespoke objets, unusual fabrics, stained glass, artisanal wooden beads and furniture ‘Edition’ pieces. These are iconic pieces handcrafted by our artisans.
This is our day-to-day workplace, functionally designed to fill our team and our guests with elegant calm and curiosity, offering a breath of fresh air from predictable design. Our ethos is meaningful and bespoke design with purpose. Furniture is made-to-measure—honouring heritage, craft and above all, originality, people and place. We create memorable experiences and talking points.
By day the studio thrives with clients, friends and colleagues who are welcomed with warm pastries, charcoal-filtered water and design savoir-faire. By night it is repurposed as a hub for design industry happenings. Vinyl is played, the wine is poured and industry friends and thought leaders congregate to collaborate, discuss and invigorate the design industry. The studio is known for its warmth and open-minded collaboration. But most significantly for our narrative design which sets intelligent style and (oftentimes wild) creativity free.
Our oval boardroom table is crafted from an ancient oak tree that fell in a storm, the first in a limited edition soon to be released. The grain of the wood has been left intact, unpolished, and is a design feature that allows the natural character of the wood to tell its own beautiful story.
"We fell in love with this workshop at first sight. Not because of how it looked as it was stuck in the 1990s, but for its soul. There’s a feeling when you walk through a space and it feels right. Here, we could feel its creative ancestry as a workshop and good energy.
When we first visited, everything was aesthetically wrong; the spatial arrangement was wrong, there were tiny doors everywhere, but the volume was great and we could see what it could become.
A space can look at its very worst but we can see it at its future best, instantly. We could see through the dingy office walls that we were presented with. We could visualise walls moving and light pouring in. As Interior Architects, this is what we love most—we can transform buildings into completely new spaces.
The studio's loftiness now provides incredible daylight with a ceiling height that is rarely found in prime London. We have restored the old workshop and harnessed its character, transforming it to the perfect home for our design and Architecture creatives and to receive our clients and guests."
Clemence Pirajean & James Lees
When we receive a compelling brief or RFP, we invite our potential clients to our studio for a workshop. This is when we have a chemistry and creative meeting to explain our unconventional and highly effective creative process. Our unique way of working creates a narrative for the project that results in the creation of truly original spaces, timeless designs of distinction that will be appreciated for many years to come.
