James Roberts is an award-winning interior architecture and design practice, known for crafting thoughtful and elegantly resolved spaces – guided not by fleeting trends but by meaning and enduring values.
Our work spans private villas, townhouses and country estates, as well as Michelin-starred restaurants, alpine chalets and workplaces. We serve private individuals, family offices, agents and professional collaborators, building long-term, trusted relationships.
We are perceptive and intuitive thinkers with strong creative and technical expertise. Embracing modern technologies we work nomadically, engaged both on site and directly with our clients.
For clients with European interests, we are uniquely positioned offering procurement freedoms in the post-Brexit era, delivering a complete turn-key service both at home and abroad.
Our Core Services
Inception is where we evaluate space—advising on property purchases, early planning applications and opportunities to unlock added value. Here we start to build our understanding of your true needs, helping to shape the architectural narrative before parameters become fixed.
Design is where we interpret, challenge, imagine, develop and define. We take ownership for everything you experience within your interior, whilst influencing all that surrounds. Design follows a logical progression – from Concept, through Development, into Detail where ideas journey, evolving into creative and precise outcomes.
We build trust, effectively communicating designs using advanced visualisation and immersive tools, fostering clarity and confidence in feedback and decision-making.
Realisation brings the Design to reality. We manage the full procurement process so you don’t have to. From sourcing decorative fixtures, furnishings and equipment, to overseeing orders, payments, deliveries, checks and installation. A careful and stress free, turn-key completion.
From Inception, through Design, to Realisation. A process tailored to you.
James
A qualified engineer with formal training at both Sandhurst and London’s Royal College of Art, James began his career — as he still considers himself today — as a product designer. A developer of diverse innovations, he has worked in product consultancy, sports fashion at NIKE, in packaging and later furniture design before specialising in interior architecture. This unique, multi-disciplinary background has cultivated in James a rare blend of technical awareness, strategic insight and creative ability, forming the foundation of his signature ‘well-resolved’ work.
Since 2008, James has led award-winning residential and commercial interior projects recognised by peers and press such as Wallpaper magazine and Elle Decoration, with product exhibited at the Louvre and the Barbican. A passionate educator, contributor to worthy projects and a proud member of the British Institute of Interior Design (BIID). Today he leads a small, talented team dedicated to his belief-led, craft driven approach in creating thoughtful, enduring spaces for like-minded clients and collaborators.