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Spatial Awareness

Our strength lies in shaping the feel and function of a space long before material choices come into play, allowing design elements to follow with intention and clarity.

what we do
Spatial Audit & Planning
Programming Evaluation & Development
Concept Development
Furniture and Finish Plans
Schematic Designs
Design Development
Construction
Design Guidelines

Feeling Before Seeing


Our designs never begin with a fixed idea. The foundation lies in understanding the emotional experience a space should evoke and shaping it to carry that vision while navigating real-world design constraints.

North Star


For over 45 years, we have designed experiences through the spaces we create, guided by the belief that every project begins with a client’s narrative. Using insights we gather, our teams shape journeys defined by emotional touchpoints, reinforcing brand positioning and guiding every design decision.

Tandem Design


As a creative design studio, we work in tandem with interiors, art, product, and planning to ensure that every element supports a unified narrative. Working in this way ensures cohesion, allowing small details to become integral to a space and design rather than just an add on. Light, art, and signage merge seamlessly to enhance the spatial narrative.

Place Making


While we operate from studios in Toronto and New York, our work is international, giving us lived and project experience needed to anchor each design within its context. Our long list of global collaborations and local insights allows us to introduce thoughtful references that feel genuine and grounded in place.

Network Effect


As we continue into our fifth decade, we maintain relationships with clients and partners forged in our earliest work. The trust and creative partnerships built over time give our teams shared understanding and access to insights that guide each project. Even when challenges arise, the foundations we've built help to navigate projects with clarity and ease.

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What we've Done

The Palace Muli Showroom Beijing

Honoring Emotions

MULI’s Beijing flagship sits within a heritage shell of significant presence. The challenge was to honor the architecture’s weight while shaping a contemporary experience that slows a visitor and centers emotion before product.

Grounded Relevance

The project required creating a calm counterpoint to the space’s historic intensity. We shaped the interior around a feeling-before-seeing rhythm, using softened thresholds, gentle turns and curated sightlines that invite reflection rather than rush. The narrative centered on attentiveness and materials that quiet the senses through stone and metal in muted finishes that absorb rather than broadcast. Working across lighting, styling, and planning, we introduced subtle gestures that guide attention, resulting in a store where heritage and modernity meet through experience rather than ornament.

AMAN Residences Tokyo

Connected Sanctuary

The Aman Residences asked us to translate the brand’s resort calm into private homes atop the Mori JP Tower. The challenge was to create a space that feels serene, grounded, and unmistakably residential while maintaining the DNA of Aman.

Living Calm

We designed the Aman Residences as a gradual transition from Tokyo’s urban intensity into sky-level quiet, guided by Japanese principles of restraint and intentional pacing. Long sightlines, softened corners, and calibrated thresholds establish calm, while tactile woods, subtle handwork, shadow-holding stone, and precise joinery root the residences in craft rather than motif and give them a grounded local character. Supported by every discipline working in tandem and by our longstanding relationship with Aman, the brand’s essence shapes daily living in a serene and deeply human way.

Raffles Sentosa

Heritage in a New Landscape

Raffles Sentosa is Singapore’s first villa-only resort, rising as a ground-up development across the bay from the original Raffles, 138 years after the hotel first opened on Beach Road. The challenge was to carry forward the legacy of an icon without falling into replication, translating its heritage into a new landscape.

Rooted Reverence

We planned the villas to follow Sentosa's topography to form a small village, reinterpreting the graciousness of the original Raffles through its interior experience rather than its aesthetics. A sequence of thresholds—garden, veranda, interior, retreat—echoes the old hotel’s sense of ease while adopting a contemporary residential language. Materials and details draw from Singapore’s ecology, using natural textures, soft transitions, and calibrated proportions to connect the interiors to the island; through this refined simplicity, the spaces bridge past and present, giving the new Raffles an identity that feels rooted in tradition yet entirely its own.

Moët & Chandon Bar Berlin

Everyday Celebration, Elevated

Moët sought to create a contemporary champagne experience—one that is modern, warm, and accessible, where champagne feels at home in everyday moments as much as informal celebrations.

Effortless Uplift

We shaped the interior around an emotional arc, moving from anticipation at entry to openness in the main space with intimate pockets throughout. Feeling-before-seeing guided the atmosphere, using warm reflective surfaces, softened metallics, and calibrated lighting to encourage connection. Rooted in a narrative of "everyday celebration", the design aligned every discipline from the start, integrating subtle cultural cues along with Moët’s heritage into a contemporary setting that celebrates both people and product.