The evolution of the interior designing industry has been evident over the years slowly and steadily. With the emergence of new and updated technologies to support the transformation in the industry, the concept of interior design has been redefined to inspire positivity. It is no doubt that the practice of interior designing goes beyond the idea of adding fashion elements to a place, it more concerned with confidence, empathy, creativity, and energy and hence proves to be essential to our society.
With this article, we are presenting 30 such interior designs who are constantly enriching the industry with their expert skills and ideas.
Perla Lichi Design
Perla Lichi, known as a multi-cultural global designer who focuses on designing each residence uniquely – one-of-a-kind rather than sticking to a standard style. For over 40 years, Perla Lichi Design is a full-service Florida State-licensed professional interior designer, and a professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). Perla Lichi Design is known to create spaces based on individual styles. Lichi enjoys history and world travel and has been to 80 countries. She loves integrating her passion and love for art into her interior design, as she believes every design she creates is a piece of art in itself. Perla Lichi works individually and personally with clients in order to design the ideal space. Their versatile portfolio includes a wide range of contemporary/modern, classic, traditional, and transitional designs. Perla Lichi has received more than 650 national and international awards for residential and commercial interior design projects.
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Luca Farneti
Dreams Fact.Ory Studio is an Italian leading product and interior design studio, fulfilling its mission to create “cathedrals for the soul” around the world.
Rooted in a humanistic perspective, Dreams Fact.Ory Studio, creates destinations with a genuine balance between functionality, aesthetics, and individuality, in order to create an authentic and timeless design to a new “Renaissance of Humanism”. In each new project, Dreams Fact.Ory Studio re-defies design dogma, using biophilic design principles, to make environments that are nature-inspired and human-focused, considering every design as tailor-made.
Dreams Fact.Ory Studio designs private homes, residential, corporate developments, hospitality experiences, and products. The full-service approach and the capacity to truly listen make Dreams Fact.Ory Studio is eager to redefine the language of symbols, shape, or place to arrive at a new vocabulary, focusing on the holistic, spirituality, and the physical experience of space and textures.
Nadia Di Donato
Nadia Di Donato is the Creative Director and Vice President at Liberty Entertainment Group (LEG). Nadia has played an integral role in LEG since 1987, creating unique design approaches and creative themes for its properties while overseeing production for their signature events. Trained in visual communications at Ryerson University, Nadia’s vision is to create synergy between form and function. She has redefined Toronto and Miami’s restaurant, nightlife, and special event experience, recognized as one of the most creative designers in the industry. Her impressive roster of innovative properties includes special event facilities, Casa Loma and Liberty Grand Entertainment Complex, Blueblood Steakhouse, Don Alfonso 1890, Xango, Cibo Wine Bar restaurants, nightclub, Arcane, and the Coral Gables Country Club in Florida. The recipient of international accolades for her showstopping work, including the prestigious LIV Hospitality Design Awards 2021, Nadia has enjoyed numerous awards from — and was nominated by — design et al magazine’s International Hotel & Property Awards 2021 as Hospitality Designer of the Decade.
Inês Gavinho
Inês Gavinho is the creative director and partner of studio GAVINHO Architecture & Interiors founded in 1990 by her mom, Maria Gavinho. Inês believes that the projects developed by their studio in all areas, architecture, landscaping, interior design, product design, and art consultancy, always have to stand out.
Specialized in the luxury segment for private residences and luxury condominiums, GAVINHO Architecture & Interiors creates and redesigns interior spaces with an emphasis on customization, contemporary style, and high-end materials. This commitment to quality and the originality of each project is the cornerstone reasons for its success and international expansion. GAVINHO designs places, products, immersive environments, attractive destinations, and differentiated products. The studio focuses on the multidisciplinary practice that addresses the multiple layers of human experience.
They design buildings, interiors, landscapes, lighting, furniture, objects, and graphics with a drive that goes far beyond how things look, always placing first the way how people feel in the spaces. Their clients are individuals, real estate developers, and entrepreneurs who seek to stand out. Gavinho truly believes that creating projects in an accessible collaborative environment is the “best recipe” to overcome obstacles, find new and better solutions, which results in the accomplishment of big dreams.
Deman Sabah
Deman Sabah has grown in a mixture of cultures that made her the designer she is today. Understanding the background and the culture of her clients is very important for her to execute the best designs that suit their needs. She believes that interior design is about a few major things; attention to detail, a stroke of inspiration, and a focus on where practicality and beauty converge. Deman likes making clients happy, but she loves when she can give them something that they didn’t even imagine they wanted. Transforming spaces is one of the greatest missions she really enjoys! During the beginning stages of any project, she tends to understand the function and the need of the people using the spaces they want her to design for them. Deman always does her best to create timeless and inspiring interiors that will serve both function and ecstatic of the place. Loving what she does is the most powerful element that shows in all her designs.
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Jillian Fritz
Jillian’s talent for creating timeless, functional living spaces is something to watch out for. With a decade in the design-build industry, she has gained extensive knowledge, experience, and flexibility, enabling her to work on a full spectrum of projects, from one-room remodels to high-end custom homes. When she sits down with clients, she takes time to understand their lifestyle and overall design aesthetic before building out the design elements.
Her easy-going personality and humble approach allow her to connect easily with others. One of Jillian’s strengths is having a firm understanding of construction costs and what is required to achieve specific looks—all within budget. She keeps this information in mind as she designs and recommends materials. She loves being able to work on the design process from start to finish, witnessing the shift within clients from greatly wanting change in their current space, to being overjoyed with their improved space.
Allyse Y.Li
The founding principal of RAAW Design & Associates, ALLYSE Y. LI is the vision behind the Vancouver-based interior design and residential development firm. As a RID, LI’s design professionalism and advocacy for sustainable development practice manifest in all her undertakings. Since 2016, LI has successfully led over 100 interior projects fully ranging from residential, commercial, multifamily to hospitality categories. As an educator and an ambassador of NCIDQ, LI regularly speaks to design students in Canada and the US.
LI’s distinct and multidisciplinary background drew her to approach Net Zero Building (NZB) methodologies to further explore affordable, universal and resilient interior built environments across all developmental landscapes. Paired with an unparalleled approach to interior design and integrated project management, her expertise in urban land economics with a focus on sustainable development renders every custom home by RAAW to be truly awe-inspiring and quite limited —something surely to look out for in 2022. “Design is powerful and emotional. It is capable of so much more.”
Caroline Balz and Allison Goldberg
Psychological Interiors uses a multi-layered, research-based approach to provide thoughtful design for living beautifully. What sets this design duo apart is their extensive backgrounds as Psychotherapists, Designers, and friends.
Co-owner’s Caroline Balz and Allison Goldberg are adept at creating interiors that graciously embody individualized style, comfort, and function. Drawing upon psychological principles, their proprietary process hones in on each client’s specific design style so that the resulting interiors are an authentic reflection of who their clients are and how they best exist in their space.
Caroline and Allison believe that design is personal and complex. While they understand that it’s easy to fall in love with trends, it is even more vital to know what element of a trend speaks to each client and how to utilize this knowledge to achieve the end goal. At Psychological Interiors unearthing the client’s individual narrative, at this deeper level, allows the final design to illuminate the senses and maximize the home life experience.
René and Rhona Rubio
The Miami Design Studio is a fusion of passion and experience merging to create luxurious personalized interiors. Their personalized approach produces homes that reflect and cultivate the culture of the individuals living there – while achieving a functional and sustainable design to amplify the client’s lifestyle! At, The Miami Design Studio, they enjoy purposefully walking clients through the process from concept to completion.
Rene grew up in Colombia, S.A., and studied Interior Design at the Art Institute, Ft Lauderdale. Rhona grew up in Arkansas, as well as, Central and South America. She studied Fine Art and Art Education at ATU. They enjoy spending hours in the outdoors, a good movie, jazz, traveling and being silly with their four kiddos. Culture, Art, and Functionality are all key elements in their unique design process.
Melissa Freeman
Melissa Freeman, Lead Interior Designer and founder of Luxe Curations, launches an e-commerce site, featuring Luxe Curations.
Created by Ms. Freeman, known for designing timeless and sophisticated interiors, the shop features Home Décor and Accessories, curated to be shopped with confidence. Each item is thoughtfully selected, designed to be mixed and matched together so that customers can effortlessly and enjoyably add layers of design to their home. Full-Scale Service Design Services are also available.
Following a year of global upheaval, they seek to celebrate Design and Culture from around the world. Authenticity, Sustainability, and Fair Trade are at the heart of our Curated Collections. They work with companies who specialize in ethically sourced and produced, artisan-made Textiles, Porcelain, Coral, Shells, Antique, and Vintage items from around the globe. During a time when many of us are choosing to stay close to home, their collection is a responsible and safe way to fulfill your wanderlust.
Rita Valadão
Rita Valadão is graduated from the renowned School of Decorative Arts – Fundação Ricardo Espírito Santo Silva, Lisbon, in Decorative Arts and Interior Design, she started her professional career in 2011. The practice of interior design led Rita to participate alongside a team in several residential and commercial projects, recognized in 2014 and 2015 by the prestigious international award A’Design Award & Competition, Milan, in the category – A`Furniture, Decorative Items, and Homeware Design; TAC – The Architecture Community as ARCHITECT OF THE YEAR 2020 & APR International Interior Design Award, reaching 2nd runner-up place in Interior Design Concept.
Ines Käärma
Ines Käärma is the founder and interior architect of Ace of Space. Interior architecture and design isn’t just a daily routine for her but more a lifestyle that surrounds her around the clock. Transforming the living environment to functional and aesthetic form keeps her fulfilled; through research, experience, and knowledge she is giving sense and adding value to it; in a well-balanced combination fully tailored unique projects with personality are born.
The main idea she’s been following when building the company has been to choose projects that intrigue her and present challenges, as well as clients who enjoy the power of collaboration and appreciate a professional approach. She has always paid close attention to taking in only carefully chosen clients which allows her to work in a sort of haute couture section. Ace of Space is known as interior architecture and furniture design studio with outside-the-box thinking.
Shaunali Nanda
Shaunali Nanda nurtured in the arts and brought up amongst collectors has based her interior design ethos in always referring to the classic and sometimes unsaid rules of Interior design that give her homes a sophisticated and timeless character. As Visual Merchandising and Store Planning Manager at Hermes, Van Cleef and Arpels and Tiffany in New York, Shaunali learnt to cherish what is truly stylish and eternal. After her masters in the History of Decorative Art at Sotheby’s, Shaunali became the lead researcher at Christie’s for the Magnificent Mughal Jewels Auction. Therefore, Shaunali’Ss concepts are research-based with references made to tastemakers and trends that they set that remain respected through time.
Shaunali in the spring is launching her own line of hand block printed fabrics, wallpaper, table linen hand-painted porcelain as a result of her charitable work during the lockdown with artists to continue giving them work to sustain their lives and families.
Maria Aybar-Imbert Rivera
Maria is the Owner and Principal of MA Interiors, a design firm founded in 2020. With over twelve years of experience, Maria has created stylish and sophisticated spaces. Her portfolio is broad, from residential to commercial projects of all sizes, from east to west coast locations, such as Texas, California, Florida, and Puerto Rico. MA Interior believes that design should respond to the architecture and natural surroundings of the space by creating an innovative, sustainable, and unequaled design. As an interior design company, they aspire to solve problems through dynamic, creative, and innovative designs. Their mission is to improve clients’ quality of life by enhancing functionality through design.
MA Interiors creates high-end designs through carefully curated services that transform their client’s necessities and desires into livable spaces by maximizing the potential of the areas. MA Interiors is well-versed in a variety of aesthetics that bring style, value, and functionality to every project by perfectly balancing space planning, design, materials, and architectural details. The result is a timeless design that is customized to their client’s tailored to taste, budget, and timeline. What Maria loves most about design is the opportunity to provide her clients with joy and satisfaction every time they walk into their new space, that has been personalized and crafted with their needs and style in mind.
Loubna Sadiki
Loubna Sadiki is the founder of Xenia Homes, a business that caters to all kinds of property needs. Born in Morocco, Loubna is an entrepreneur with many talents but her exceptional interior designing skills are gaining her recognition on a national level. She designed homes and commercial spaces in cities like Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Seattle. Her passion project, Xenia Homes is inspired by her own determination to achieve something extraordinary in interior designing as well as the luxury Vacation Rental industry.
The aim of Xenia Homes is to take the experience of enjoying vacation homes to the next level while enjoying the design of each space. Whether you are a guest, a professional Athlete, or a property owner, you can rest assured about your property needs with Xenia Homes. With an exclusive concierge and top housekeeping service, Xenia Homes caters to all of the client’s needs and serves as the one-stop shop for them.
Loubna transitioned from working for a Tech firm to being her own entrepreneur while making a social impact by promoting women leaders. Xenia Homes focuses on hiring mainly women for higher positions and giving them tools to be their own leaders. With the help of her team and Angelina Coley, they aim on making their clients happy with their new home and stay.
Lucila Diaz
Lucila Diaz is the founder and creative director of Harmony Sense Interiors Ltd. As an accomplished statistician mixed with her intuitive perception of the spiritual world, she has been able to decode the patterns that are found in nature’s beauty and apply them to her interior design work. Her love for science not only gives her a unique approach to design but also has allowed her to develop systems and tools to better serve her clients. With more than 15 years of experience and recipient of multiple awards, Lucila has had the opportunity to work in numerous projects from doing the Production Design for HGTV’s Property Brothers to styling hotels, yachts, TEDx stages, and being involved in the renovating and building of numerous homes.
During the global pandemic, she has been able to use her cloud-based studio to serve clients virtually allowing her to grow her business locally and internationally.
Priyanka Kochhar
Priyanka lives by her motto: True to design, true to your style, true to your vision.
Her goals for her clients are to make sure renovating/ re-decorating their home is simple, easy, and reflective of their tastes. She understands how tremendous the design process can be so she offers a personalized, comprehensive approach to clients’ design needs from concept to the final, finishing detail.
Priyanka’s easy-going yet decisive approach has helped clients reach their design needs on time and on budget. With over 10 years of experience in the design and construction industry, she has done it all, from renovating a small powder room to designing and planning custom single-family residences. She combines her expertise, detail to design, and knowledge of trends both past and present to make a client’s house feel like home.
Nathalie Ludwig
Nathalie Ludwig has been based near Cannes (France), for nearly 8 years. Combining Germanic rigor and the famous French Touch, she creates exclusive, custom-designed spaces for a mostly foreign clientele.
Elegance and comfort are the keywords of a person who knows how to combine erudition and well-being, modernity and tradition, to renovate or decorate the most beautiful private residences, villas, and apartments of the Riviera and also yachts, a clinic, a chalet, and even an airplane cabin and various hotel projects.
Profoundly gifted and endowed with a subtle taste, Nathalie Ludwig is passionate about beauty and details and loves to bring rooms to life. Rigorous and extremely organized, she is also a great listener to perceive and decipher the wishes of her clients, often very demanding. From recommendations to recommendations between clients looking for perfection, Nathalie Ludwig’s talents have also been exported to London and as far as Kuwait.
Michelle Reeves
Floral beauty is Michelle’s sanctuary, causing a visceral response to the beauty and possibilities through flowers, nature, and color – putting voice to the canvas through paint and palette knife in an expressionistic fashion. Michelle’s work is abstract/expressionism with a dash of realism. Colors, forms, and textures inspired by nature are the key components and considerations for her paintings relaying messages that are good, bad, and ugly.
As a self-taught painter, she started later in life (52), as a result of a question a gentleman asked during a job interview: “What are you passionate about?” Michelle went back to school for an Interior Design degree. But through the course work, something happened…she started painting and found her calling and passion! Reeves has been published in The Best of Acrylic Magazine-FALL 2021, House&Garden UK magazine, and Styleblueprint.com/FACES in 2019. Has been awarded 24 International awards and awarded two overseas artist residencies in 2020.
Datsa Gaile
Datsa noticed the sequin panels in January 2019 and set up her small sequin wall company and the biggest sequin wall trend in the UK. Since then many celebrities’ parties, homes, most TV shows, boutiques, hair salons, cafeterias, football stadiums, and events industry have been covered in sequin walls.
As the interior designer, event stylist, business start-up mentor, and public speaker, Datsa applies her experience to help her client’s vision come through. She is a founder of a multiple award-winning company All Things Decor Ltd. which is an exclusive sole distributor for Solaair Sequin Walls.
Datsa started her business by investing only £1.50 and after business developed so fast Datsa’s story was featured in most national magazines, on TV, and in papers. Her business now serves shows like Stricly come dancing, Miss England competitions, and even celebrities like Amanda Holden and Gemma Collins are her fans.
She combines her event styling and interior design expertise in the approach to help her client’s ideas bring alive on a side Datsa is a great inspirational public speaker, she regularly speaks at universities, banks, etc and her story has encouraged many other people to go after their dreams.
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Carisa Dodson
Carisa was born and raised in Kansas, moving to the Boulder/Denver area after college, before settling down and raising her family in Raleigh-Durham in 2017. Currently, she makes her home in Durham loving the vibrant and lively downtown area that is reinventing itself as an inclusive community. It was out of this inspiration of community, she decided to launch her own design business in 2019, Urban Lea Interior Design, after working in the industry in sales, project management, space planning, and material selection.
Currently, she has partnered with a local contractor, Dan Robison of Robinson Renovations. Together they help clients in planning and designing renovations and additions to complete their dream spaces. Carisa’s passion is the classic home design and loves to match the original style and character of the home while adding in modern amenities and touches.
Carisa’s style is very eclectic, leaning more mid-century modern based upon her first house renovation in historic Park Hill Denver, but loves to help her clients actualize their own personal style. For her, the joy in her work comes from walking the client through the process of conceptual design to the finished product.
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Yasmine Hasan
Passionate about improving users’ quality of life, Yasmine thrives in her skyrocketing career as a luxury residential interior designer with Ethan Allen. Being a young professional who thoroughly enjoys what she does, Yasmine was able to become a rising star in the DC metro area, providing exceptional, fresh-eyed, and personable service to her clients.
Yasmine believes that interior design is about offering a physically and visually comfortable space for clients as their home is their sanctuary. Drawing from her client’s personal style, she combines beauty and functionality to create a customized space perfect for each client’s needs. She achieves so by offering a comprehensive design experience that includes: creating individualized concepts, floor plans, 3D renderings, and in-home consultations while incorporating the perfect Ethan Allen furniture selection to provide timeless comfort.
Yasmine earned her Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design from Virginia Tech, after also studying abroad in Florence, Italy at the Santa Reparata International School of Art. Coming from a melting pot of cultures, Yasmine is fluent in 4 languages, giving her the honor of communicating with clients from several backgrounds and nationalities.
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Adriana Mot
Adriana is the founder and creative lead of Land of Dochia, a lifestyle brand that promotes an impeccable lifestyle through design. Extensively published and internationally recognized, she believes in the importance of interior design in shaping a healthy, confident self. Her designs as well as her artistic and written work promote a unique luxury that combines a sophisticated aesthetic with the simplicities of a natural lifestyle. Her spirited personality and high energy are reflected in her method and approach to ideation.
An avid promoter of creativity as a tool for positive change, Adriana’s signature output fluidly combines her love of architecture and design history, passion for creative thinking, knowledge of materials and fine detailing, and a deep understanding of patterns and habits of living. In the past couple of years, her work has amassed impressive international accolades and together with her professional experience spanning over two decades, have placed Adriana at the forefront of the design community.
Sonia Saraf
Having done a Bachelors in Architecture from Sir JJ College of Architecture, Mumbai, and Masters in Urban Design from the esteemed University of California, Berkeley, Sonia has a working experience of around 16 years in the field of architecture, interiors, and urban design.
She has had the opportunity to work on a diverse range of projects varying from infrastructure projects such as metro stations and aviation planning, landscaping projects, residential bungalows, and interior design projects for both residential and commercial spaces. She has also worked on graphic design and photography projects. Sonia has had the experience of working as a Business Manager in esteemed interior design firms and also worked internationally in the USA for over a year. She has worked on projects in USA, Zambia, and India.
She has also had the experience of working in rural areas of India in the field of sanitation design and infrastructure and worked on projects involving behavior architecture and human emotions. Apart from design, Sonia also has a passion for teaching. She has teaching experience of 6 years and has taught in various esteemed architecture and interior design colleges in Mumbai. Sonia founded Rock Paper Scissors which is headquartered in Mumbai and specializes in Interior Design Projects. The firm has completed multiple projects in both commercial and residential interiors.
Riddhi Patel
“Design in Style… Design with Smile” is what Riddhi Patel firmly believes in. Riddhi is an Atlanta-based Interior Designer, gracefully handling versatile projects in the United States & India. She is specialized in Design for Luxury Brands in Retail & Residentials.
She is known for her Design Style & the Services she provides. Her passion for interior design, allows her to put herself into her work the way she does. She has a real fascination with how a space can functionally work for us and make us feel better. She spends a great deal of time with her clients exploring their ideas and preferences to help them transform their home space into an area they love to be in.
She guides clients through remodeling projects from start to finish. Helping with everything from space planning to cabinetry to lighting fixtures as well as the furnishings and finishing touches, applying the same to Projects of all sizes. She is a one-point solution for your ideal requirements. She personally believes in a space that tells your story before you’ve spoken a word because the very essence of who you are is woven into your design!
Final Thoughts
By employing the best practices in the industry, these interior designings are establishing their presence as experts in the industry. Their passion and determination have been more than significant in bringing the best out of any space, and their efforts have been more than evident in inspiring the much-needed transformation in the industry.
