Max Buston

Max Buston is a designer and curtain specialist with over 15 years of experience across high-end interiors, bespoke furnishings, and soft decorative architecture.

After earning a doctorate in Aegean Archaeology from the University of Oxford, Max trained under renowned designer Anouska Hempel, eventually becoming her studio director and collaborating on projects across Europe, Asia, and North America. In 2019, he established his own design practice, drawing on his love of architecture, symmetry, and layered storytelling through colour and texture.

Today, Max is best known for his work through Curtains by Max Buston, a retail brand offering design-led, handmade curtains and Roman blinds, with showrooms in Richmond and Dartmouth. The brand combines Max’s artistic sensibility with a commitment to craft, quality, and client service. His studio works with a library of over 50 fabric houses, crafting tailored window treatments that elevate every room, from grand period properties to seaside cottages.

Max’s aesthetic favours elegance with personality, balancing formality with warmth and using window treatments as a transformative tool, whether to frame a view, cocoon a bedroom, or bring drama to a reception room. And he loves a challenge, like finding a great way to curtain bay windows.

Though now focused on soft furnishings and design for real homes, Max’s background in full-service interiors continues to inform his creative approach. The studio also offers one-off concept schemes and colour consultations by appointment.

Max lives in Devon with his husband Richard and continues to divide his time between the coast and the capital.

Showrooms
Richmond: 15 Richmond Hill, TW10 6RE
Dartmouth: 7–9 Higher Street, TQ6 9RB