claudia dorsch | international interior design studio in london

The rooms that stay with us longest are rarely the most decorated

They are the ones where something happened. Where a family gathered around a fire at the end of a long day on the mountain. Where a summer morning stretched into the afternoon without anyone noticing. Where the children grew up, and the home grew with them.

For more than twenty years, Claudia Dorsch has been designing homes built for exactly those moments and she knows, intimately, what each one needs to hold.

Homes designed to be lived in fully

Claudia Dorsch is a London-based interior design studio working on refined private homes across the UK and internationally. Established in 2009, the studio works with internationally-minded families who value discretion, building enduring homes in the city, the mountains and at the coast, designed to be lived in fully, not just to photograph well.

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Three worlds. Each one shaped by the life lived within it.

Many clients move between more than one home — a city residence, a mountain retreat, a place by the water. Each calls for something distinct. Its own pace. Its own quality of light. Its own relationship between inside and outside. We approach each one with the same curiosity: what does this place ask of the design? What does this family need it to hold? The answers are always particular, and the homes that result always feel authentic to both.

CITY

Urban Sophistication

The city home carries the full weight of daily life. The early mornings, the family dinners, the quiet hours between. More than any other home a family owns, it must hold many things at once, and reveal none of the effort. These are interiors shaped by architecture, informed by art and cultural context, and designed to absorb all of it without ever showing the strain.

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Surf

Coastal Serenity

Coastal homes live differently. Salt air, sand and the particular wear of a life spent close to water shape every material choice and every spatial decision. The relationship between inside and outside is not a design feature. It is the design. These are homes built to hold the ease of coastal living across every season, not just the best ones.

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Ski

Alpine Craft

Mountain homes call for a different kind of attention. The pace changes. Materials need to hold warmth, age honestly and sit well in a landscape that shifts with every season. The relationship between the interior and what lies beyond it is not background. It is the design. These are homes built around the rituals of mountain life, year round, and the craft those environments demand.

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country modern

Surrey Hills, UK

A country house set within two hectares of mature parkland, reconfigured entirely to bring the landscape back into the heart of the interior.

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Above The Roofline

frankfurt, germany

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Scandinavian Serenity

danish coast, denmark

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Mountain Calling

val d’isère, france

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Every home begins with a conversation

The studio works with a small number of clients each year, and takes on projects where the brief calls for something considered, personal, and designed to last. If you are thinking about a home in the city, the mountains or at the coast, we would be glad to talk.

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Stainless steel has a reputation for coldness - the professional kitchen, the laboratory, the canteen. Used well, in the right company, it does something else entirely. At our Country Modern project in the Surrey Hills, the kitchen island is clad in
I’ve always liked the way timber keeps changing after we’ve finished with it. Reclaimed boards read differently depending on the season. In winter, against snow and low light, they look dark and sheltering. Come summer, the grain opens o
This 1960s log cabin on the Danish coast had passed to the next generation of the same family, and with it, a brief - how to honour what was already there while making it work for the way they live now. We were brought in to reconfigure the layout, d
There is an assumption, still common, that designing responsibly means making concessions: to materials, to aesthetics, to atmosphere, to the quality of a room. Claudia’s experience, across almost two decades of projects in cities, mountains,
Materials are not the finishing of a project. They are the beginning of one. The decisions made underfoot, at the doorframe, in the grain of a surface - these set the tone of everything that follows. The materials we specify are rarely chosen for ap
Pattern is rarely about decoration. It is about hierarchy. What leads, what recedes, what holds the room in balance. A scheme usually needs one expressive pattern, and the restraint to let the rest sit beneath it. Scale provides the tension - large
Colour isn’t a visual decision. It’s an emotional one. It should never be considered in isolation but is shaped by light, material, scale and how a space is lived in. The same tone will feel entirely different depending on where and how
Bathrooms are often treated as purely functional. Colour changes that entirely. It shifts a room from clinical to atmospheric. Renovations especially of period properties whether city, mountain or beach, offer so much potential to introduce mood, at