Anna Burles

Run For The Hills is an award-winning London design studio led by Anna Burles who is the current BIID President Elect, as well as a BIID Registered Interior Designer. Anna co-founded the studio with her husband Chris Trotman, creating a hybrid practice that blends interiors, graphics, branding and art under one roof. Their home base is a super-creative, loft-style studio in Queen’s Park, NW6 and they do lots of projects in London but also across the UK and overseas.

The studio does a mix of residential and commercial work, carving out a reputation as a specialist in hospitality design, shaping distinctive hotels, bars, restaurants and members’ clubs. But also infusing their residential design projects with hospitality-inspired touches, from innovative home bars and private dining nooks to boutique cinema-worthy home screening rooms; designing highly crafted homes, residences, boutique guest stays and bolt-holes of all kinds. 

Anna’s own design philosophy underpins the studio’s signature style: juxtaposing vintage classics with next-generation design and creative bespoke pieces, brought to life through storytelling, bold artistry and clever detailing. The result are interior designed spaces that feel original, atmospheric and layered but always anchored in practicality and clever functionality. 

Run For The Hills offers a full end-to-end design service from concept and feasibility through to technical design, bespoke joinery, sourcing, site liaison and final styling. The studio is known for its friendly, collaborative approach and professional dynamism - loving to take their clients on a creative journey.