profile

Welcome to our website. We are an interior architecture and design agency, based in Farringdon, London.

The aim of our business is to align our clients’ brands and businesses with environments crafted around real people’s wants, needs and ergonomic well-being.

We believe that the essence of any successful project lies in understanding the ambitions, values, vision and challenges of our clients. We also believe that our mix of creativity, technical resource and very personal and tailored approach are a powerful combination in gaining that understanding.

From individual householders to the largest blue chip corporation, our clients are all still people first and foremost. We’ve spent the last decade developing ways that leverage the raw analytics of space with the strong emotional intelligence needed to interpret what the people who will inhabit the spaces we design need, for their optimum well-being.

We are specialists in workplace design, but are active across a variety of sectors, including commercial interiors, retail, hospitality and residential. We also do business across a wide spectrum of industry sectors such as financial, media, technology, charities and public.

We firmly believe that this cross-fertilisation of influences, experiences and relationships keeps us fresh, open and creative. Our current chief exec client might be our next personal residential client, for example - and we love that crossover.

We make our projects personal and our clients seem to like it that way.

Gurvinder & Nigel
Founders

SERVICES

We provide our clients with interior architecture and design consultancy services, with a major accent on workplace design, mixed use schemes and residential.

On workplace schemes, we also advise clients on the more strategic accommodation issues they might come across when considering renewing leases or relocating. We have a wealth of experience, which our co-founders have honed over many years that allows us to maximise the use of space, spot which areas of buildings might be under-utilised and create dynamic and interesting environments.

Our design development process is highly collaborative and relies on close engagement with you to drive out the best results. We use mood imagery and as much discussion as is needed to evaluate what you aspire to and wish for – but also to find out what you dislike or can’t bear!

Our design sketchbook is a working document, which evolves with the project and allows all parties to have an input into the design process. It’s not a precious catalogue but it’s certainly a very creative tool. As the sketchbook and the project develop, we build up an audit trail for decisions made along the journey to your fantastic new space and home.

Founder Profiles

Gurvinder Khurana

Director and Co-founder Gurvinder Khurana is an interior designer with a long experience of consultancy, backed up by a wide range of design & build experience across various construction sectors. Whilst the bulk of her experience has been in workplace/commercial environments, she appreciates the value of working across various sectors.

Gurvinder absorbs all that she comes into contact with and allows those experiences to feed into her work and aesthetic resources, whether they come from fashion, design, architecture, typography or nature.

Gurvinder is conscientious and passionate in her approach and always strives to deliver client-focused solutions. She seeks to have meaningful collaborations with every member of the team contributing to the design development in order to get the best out of everyone – the antithesis of the ‘design diva’ attitude!

Gurvinder believes in a holistic approach that balances the commercial and emotional requirements of an organisation and its people and looks to “get under the skin” of her clients, in order to really understand their needs and aspirations, whilst balancing this against a solid understanding of business priorities.

She has been a judge at both the FX International Interior Design Awards and Mixology North.

Here are some of the companies we have helped over the years

AAT

Adena Investments

AmTrust

Arnold KLP

Avanta

Barings Bank

Belgravia Centre

Berkeley Homes Oxford

Borough Market

Brand Opus

Breamar Seascape

BTG

Bunge

Cardano

CBW

CDG Boeing

Chartered Institute of Management Accountants

Child Poverty Action Group

Collinson Group

Communion Music

Curtis Brown

Dare Digital

Dentsu London

DLKW Lowe

Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Econsultancy

Eden McCallum

EFG Private Bank

Elm Capital

ERT

Geiseke & Devrient

GKS

Global Radio

Greene King

Grosvenor Securities

Highbrideg Capital Managent

Infinite Spada

Initials Marketing

Institute of Brewers

Interactive Space

Ioko 365

Josef Gartner

Kingpin Communications

Little Gym Westfield

London Borough of Bexley

London Borough of Walthamstow

Marathon Oil

Marketform

MCBD

Northstar 2000

Old Mutual

Olive Group

Opera Gallery

Pancentric Digital

Pattinson & Brewer

Peel Hunt

Phoenix Futures

Pilcher Herschman

Pongees Silk

Property IS

Providene Equity

Reckitt Benkiser

Reed Elsevier

Response Direct Publishing

RSA

Russia Today

Souk Digital

Sparx Asset Management

Spinnaker London

Steak Digital

Stockwell Comunications

Stortford Interiors

Talk PR

Taylor Younge

The Children's Society

The Writer

Torex Retail

Touchbase

UBS

Union Car Parks

University College London Hospitals

Wagamama

Watts & Co

Where The Pancakes Are

Yorkshire Water

Zurich Financial Services

environmental strategy

Our approach to environmental management covers the complete spectrum of our activities, both in terms of how we design our work and how we run our business. Below, we set out how we plan and implement these strategies.

Design Work

We constantly strive to design schemes that are sensitive to the building and environment in which they sit. We encourage clients to embrace the industry standard BREEAM or SKA rating schemes, which offer frameworks for the assessment and management of the environmental impact of our proposals. We actively select products and materials that have been developed to minimise impact on the environment through the use of recycled materials, reduced energy consumption during manufacture and suitability for re- use or recycling post completion.

Business Activities

As a creative design consultancy, the way in which we run our business directly impacts on the environment in a number of ways:

Transportation – our business is located adjacent to Farringdon Station in the heart of the Clerkenwell design hub. Our location, close to major transport interchanges, maximises our use of public transport and reduces travel costs for the vast majority of our projects that are based in central London. All of our staff use either public transport or bicycles to commute to and from the studio.

Suppliers - many related product and supplier showrooms are also within easy access of our offices, which mean we have reduced the space needed to hold product literature and can keep samples to a bare minimum.
Space efficiency – by taking space with The Office Group, we keep our office space requirements to the bare minimum, as we have access to shared facilities like showers, tea points, breakout lounges and meeting rooms.

Green office – our building at 24 Greville Street has been designed to incorporate:

• Green walls
• Water saving features (smaller cisterns and flow restrictors)
• Low energy lighting
• Recycling (including a wormery)
• Bike storage and showers for cyclists
• Printing – we issue all documents electronically to minimise the need for printed copies and wasteful copying wherever possible.