About

Tanya Barrington

Tanya Barrington is an Interior Architect and Designer with over 15 years’ experience creating refined residential and commercial interiors. Trained at the Inchbald School of Design, she brings a thoughtful, client-focused approach to every project, combining strong architectural understanding with a highly personal design sensibility. 

Tanya believes that successful interiors begin with listening carefully to the client’s brief. Each project is developed as a tailored response to the client’s lifestyle, tastes and the way the space is meant to be lived in. Her work blends timeless elegance with a contemporary perspective, often mixing antiques and unusual pieces with modern elements to create interiors that feel both distinctive and enduring.

Rupert Cook

Rupert is a an Architect with extensive Interior Design experience particularly in the education and commercial fields. He is known for creating sophisticated, high-performance environments that bridge the gap between material integrity and refined finishes. With a career defined by leadership at the intersection of architecture and human-centric design, he brings a strategic, architectural rigour to the world of interiors. 

His approach treats the interior as more than a decorative layer, as a fundamental extension of the building’s shell, in the service of daily life and activity. By prioritising spatial fluidity, structural clarity, and sustainable materials, Rupert ensures that every project is underpinned by a sense of longevity and purpose.

Drawing on his extensive experience as a Director at MCM, Rupert has spent decades navigating the complexities of large-scale architectural projects and intricate interior fit-outs. This background provides him with a unique macro-to-micro perspective—the ability to manage complex technical integration while maintaining a sharp focus on the tactile, human-scale details that define a beautiful interior.

Rupert’s work is characterised by a commitment to delightful durability and craftsmanship. Whether designing custom joinery or selecting finishes, he leverages a deep understanding of how materials perform over time. The result is a portfolio of considered, enduring spaces that harmonise architectural precision with warmth and joy that enhances daily use.

Basia Lejonvarn

"Form follows function" coined by Louis Sullivan in 1896 to mean that in architecture, beauty would emerge naturally from practical, functional design as opposed to relying on style or ornamentation. 

With time, architecture has had to respond to the changing ways of how we live, especially how we can preserve the original, but still be able to innovate and approach the process of designing interiors that either grow together with the external architecture or come later to enhance the original.

Basia sees every project as an opportunity to create beautiful, natural and effortless design. Understanding the architecture as a whole, is also to understand every limitation, but to look for solutions with diligence and creativity. Arriving at the end of the process should never feel forced or contrived.

Basia believes that designing an interior, is akin to the process of creating a work of art, one which begins long before the artist has picked up the paintbrush. As a project develops together with the client's brief, the designer shapes the aesthetic through colour, texture, material, and the sensory potential of light, sound and touch. In the end, the result will feel like it was always meant to be, natural and deliberate.

Socrates Miltiadou

Socrates is a dually qualified Architect and Interior Designer with over 20 years’ experience delivering refined, bespoke interiors. His work is defined by precision detailing, material intelligence and a deep understanding of craftsmanship.

Every project is approached as a fully integrated architectural interior — where spatial planning, joinery, stonework and finishes are conceived together rather than layered superficially.

Socrates spent eight years as a draftsperson and project manager for specialist marble and granite firm Walter W Jenkins. This formative experience gave him a detailed technical understanding of natural stone fabrication, slab selection, fixing systems and on-site coordination — expertise that continues to inform the studio’s high-specification interior work.

A member of the BIID since 2009 and former visiting lecturer at the London Metropolitan School of Architecture, Socrates combines architectural rigour with craftsmanship-led interior design to create considered, enduring spaces.