Our Commercial Designers
One named designer, brief to handover
Your project is run by one person throughout: sometimes our lead commercial designer, sometimes a senior designer with the lead overseeing. Either way it is the same person from the first call to the last site visit, and never an account manager relaying your questions.
Who that is depends on the sector. A restaurant, a co-working floor and a hotel bedroom look like one discipline from outside and are not. We match on that, and if the sector sits outside what we have done, we will tell you rather than learn on your budget.
Who is on it
Coro
An architect by training with more than twenty years across F&B, workplaces and private residences. Six years in the United States and nearly a decade leading projects across several Chinese cities before Madrid. She designs in clean architectural moves layered with materials, lighting and bespoke detail, and has spent her career alongside fabricators and contractors, which is why her drawings survive contact with a site.
- F&B and workplace
- English and Spanish
- Madrid
Katarina
Heads Studio Akiva's design work in Spain, with over a decade of experience between Madrid and Berlin. She works in English, French and Serbian, which counts when the client, the architect and the trades are not operating in the same language.
- SECTOR SLOT
- English, French and Serbian
- Madrid and Berlin
Maria
A designer from Brazil Madrid whose work turns on the relationship between space, material and atmosphere, and on interiors that hold up in use rather than only in photographs.
- SECTOR SLOT
- English and Spanish
- Madrid
Ask what went wrong
Homes are chosen on taste. Commercial work rewards something duller: somebody who has already made the mistakes. A designer who has done three restaurants knows the pass has to be reachable without crossing a service route, and that the acoustic decision made for the photographs will be the complaint in every review.
So ask what the designer has done in your sector, and ask what went wrong on it. The second answer tells you more than a portfolio does.
You can talk to the designer who would lead your project before anything is agreed. It costs nothing, and it is the only reliable way to find out whether you want to spend the next few months working with someone.