Restaurant bar and dining room designed by Taggha

Interior design studio · California · working nationwide

Interiors for places that open on a date.

We design restaurants, bars, spas, offices and retail. Some clients come to us directly. Others are design firms who need a second pair of hands on a project that is already theirs.

For design and architecture firms

Subcontract design

We take on defined parts of your project — drawings, FF&E, renderings — and deliver them in your template, under your name. You keep the client. We stay out of sight.

How it works

For owners and operators

Direct projects

Full design from first sketch to installation, for restaurants and bars, spas, workplaces, retail spaces and the custom furniture that goes in them.

What we do

Where we are useful

Design that survives contact with a contractor.

Plenty of studios can make a beautiful board. Fewer can hand a general contractor a set of drawings that gets built without a stack of RFIs. That second part is where most of our work sits, and it is why design firms keep sending us their overflow.

We work in Revit, AutoCAD and SketchUp, render in Enscape and Unreal Engine, and scan existing buildings when the drawings on file cannot be trusted. Most of our projects are hospitality, which means the finishes have to look expensive and still take a beating.

See our services

Marble chef's counter and mural in a restaurant designed by Taggha

Services

Six things we are asked for most.

Some clients want one of these. Most want three or four bundled into a single scope. We are happy either way.

Subcontract design for firms

Overflow capacity for interior design and architecture practices. Documentation, FF&E and visualization, produced to your standards and delivered under your name.

Restaurants and bars

Dining rooms, bars, private rooms and terraces. We plan the front of house for the guest and the back of house for the people working a Friday night.

Spa and wellness

Treatment rooms, saunas, hydrotherapy and changing areas, where materials have to handle water and heat without looking clinical.

Workplace and office

Test fits, executive suites, boardrooms and open floors. Lighting and acoustics get as much attention as the furniture plan.

Retail and clubs

Storefronts, members' clubs and brand spaces where the route through the room has to do some of the selling.

As-built 3D scanning

Laser survey of a building as it stands today, handed over as a point cloud, CAD drawings or a Revit model you can design straight into.

Selected work

Recent projects.

A short selection. Work delivered under another firm's name is not shown here, by agreement.

Private dining room with floor to ceiling wine storage

Restaurants and barsWine room and chef's table

Spa relaxation lounge with curved seating and soft lighting

Spa and wellnessHydration lounge

Executive office with timber panelling and city view

WorkplaceExecutive suite

See all work

Restaurant terrace with pergola, planting and city outlook

For design firms

We work under your name, on your standards.

A firm wins a restaurant group or a hotel spa, and then the calendar closes in. Rather than hire for a peak that ends in four months, you hand us a package and we deliver it in your title block, on your layer standards, to your review dates.

NDA signed before kickoff, as a matter of course
We do not publish or pitch with work done under your name
Fixed fee per package, or hourly for open-ended support
Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Enscape and Unreal Engine

See how we plug in

Some of the firms we have worked with

How a project runs

Five stages, and what happens in each.

First call

Half an hour to understand the space, how it will be run and when it has to open. We follow up with a written scope, a fee and a date rather than a vague proposal.

Existing conditions

If the drawings on file are old or missing, we scan. An accurate base model at the start removes the most common cause of change orders later.

Concept and visuals

Plans, elevations and renders. Where a project warrants it we build an Unreal Engine model so people can walk the room before anything is approved.

Drawings and specification

Construction documents, finish schedules and FF&E packages, detailed enough to price accurately and build from.

Through to opening

Submittal reviews, answers to RFIs and site coordination during installation, so what gets built matches what was drawn.

Tell us about the space.

The first conversation is free and takes about thirty minutes. Bring a floor plan, a lease, or just a deadline.

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