Claudia Dorsch

We are an award winning  London-based interior design studio working on refined private homes in the UK and internationally. Our clients are globally-minded individuals and families who move between more than one home, and want each of those homes to feel as considered and personal as the lives lived within them.

We work across the city, the mountains and the coast. Claudia leads the vision and client relationship on every project, supported by an experienced team of creative professionals. The same depth of care applies in every location.

What we do is not decoration. It is the slow, careful work of understanding how a family lives, and translating that understanding into spaces that feel grounding, enduring, and unmistakably authentic.

About Claudia Dorsch

I established the studio drawn by a belief I still hold: that the spaces we live in shape us more than we realise. How a home is laid out. The way rooms connect. The storage that quietly absorbs the demands of a family. These are the things that shape how a house feels to live in, long before a colour or a fabric is chosen.

I grew up spending weekends in antiques shops, flea markets and galleries — first with my father, then, in my teens, working for dealers buying and selling furniture and objects. That early immersion gave me something that cannot really be taught: an instinctive feel for quality, and an understanding of how objects carry history.

After studying European Business Administration in London, I spent a decade in asset management for global financial institutions. It was a different kind of rigour — analytical, precise, structured — but it sharpened skills that have proved essential in running a successful international design studio: the ability to hold a complex picture, manage competing demands, and make decisions with confidence.

Throughout that time, I was investing in and renovating properties across the UK, Germany and France — working through the design decisions myself, building relationships with craftspeople and suppliers, learning, practically, what it means to make a home work. It was less a hobby than a parallel education.

I trained at the Inchbald School of Design and founded the studio in 2009. I am fluent in German and French and have worked with clients across the UK, Europe and the United States.

I have raised three daughters across three homes. I know what it means to need a kitchen that absorbs the chaos of a school morning, a sitting room that holds a family at the end of a long day, a house that works quietly and well across every season of life. The clients I work with are living a version of that same life. I understand it not as a concept, but from the inside.

Before a layout is drawn or a material chosen, I want to understand how you live — what your current home gets wrong, and what it quietly gets right. That listening shapes everything that follows.

I work on a small number of projects each year, because the kind of attention a home deserves cannot be divided too many ways.

I live in Hampstead with my husband and three daughters. The studio is based here too, which feels right. The work has always been rooted in the reality of domestic life — in all its texture and complexity.