The Studio

Interiors with a considered calm.

Collective Design is an interior design studio founded in Chengdu in 2016, working across China and Australia.

Ambient footage of a warm villa interior with a lounge chair and dining area.
Overview

We design at the meeting point of architecture and everyday life. Where a plan meets the way a person actually moves through a room; where a raw material meets the light of a particular window. That is the register we work in — practical, tactile and quietly considered.

Our work spans two worlds. On the private side: villas, apartments and residences, shaped around the rhythms of a home. On the commercial side: restaurants, offices, retail and hospitality, built to trade and made to last. The sensibility is the same across both — natural materials, honest detail, and rooms that feel resolved rather than decorated.

From Chengdu — one of China's fastest-growing cities — we design and deliver in both China and Australia, working closely with clients and makers in each region so the built result stays true to the drawing.

How we think

Material honesty

Wood, stone and plaster used for what they are, not dressed up as something else.

Quiet detail

The interest lives in the joinery, the edge and the transition — not in ornament.

Built to be lived in

Spaces resolved around real use, so they still feel right years after hand-over.

Capabilities

Interior Design

Full interior concepts for private and commercial spaces, from spatial narrative to material palette.

Space Planning

Reworking layouts so a space serves how people actually move, gather and work.

FF&E & Styling

Furniture, fixtures, lighting and the finishing details that give a room its character.

Project Supervision

On-site oversight through construction, keeping the built result true to the design.

Commercial Fit-out

Retail, office and hospitality interiors built to trade — brand, function and flow.

Residential Design

Villas and apartments shaped around the private rhythms of a home.