WOOLF Interior Architecture and Design Studios in London and Bath
WOOLF Interior Architecture & Design originated in West London with their first Notting Hill studio opening its doors in 2009. The practice expanded in 2019 with the addition of their south-west studio in the City of Bath.
“We create completely unique, client-focused, residential interiors, valued by our clients for their luxurious, individual, beautifully tailored interior design”. The practice founder Verity Woolf, has over 25 years of industry expertise, sensitively designing both contemporary and historic residential interiors. Our cheerful team of interior designers and interior architects have specialist skills delivering detailed design, space planning, procurement, art curation and project management.
WOOLF STUDIO LONDON
Contemporary Apartment, Kings Cross London
In 2009, Verity set up the WOOLF Studio in London creating a collaborative team of expert interior designers based in West London. Since establishing WOOLF Interior Architecture & Design in West London, Verity and the team have gone on to design for many intriguing and notable clients who work with Verity as they are captivated by her discreet, fun loving and engaging attitude.
THE WOOLF STORY
Modern Victorian Townhouse, Chelsea London
Having originally worked as an art director and production designer in film and television, founder Verity Woolf gained recognition for her exceptional talent in creating vision from the character and narrative of the projects she worked on. Wanting to design permanently, Verity completed her Masters in Interior Architecture and became a Senior Interior Designer in a London based Architectural practice, where she worked on an array of fascinating interior design projects including hotel interiors, restaurants, residential developments and many commercial redesigns.
By approaching the design of interiors like a curator, spaces are tailored, individual and characterful. Each WOOLF project is looked at afresh and designed based on the Client’s specific aesthetic and design brief rather than using an adopted ‘in-house’ style. “We love this approach as it ensures that all our projects are unique, fresh, distinct and beautifully tailored to our Client’s individual style – we are lucky that the variety of projects drives us creatively!”
The projects that WOOLF Interior Architecture & Design have had the privilege to work on have been wide and varied. Our work spans interior architecture, interior design and decoration. The majority of our projects are high-end residential and hotel schemes located in a wide geographical reach.
COMMERCIAL INTERIOR DESIGN
Four Seasons, Jumeirah Beach Dubai
Our commercial arm has had the privilege to be hotel consultants on several world-renowned luxury hotels including the Four Seasons Jumeirah in Dubai, The Maybourne Group’s Claridge’s in Mayfair, London Oceanic House and the Admiralty Arch on The Mall, London. We have also been lucky enough to have been instructed on the refresh and interior design of a number of exclusive London Livery Clubs, really allowing us to showcase our heritage design work, paying particular attention to techniques and historic detailing such as guilding, artwork restoration and paint analysis. The renewal, repair and potentially replacement of historic wallpaper, upholstery, joinery, tiles and flooring in these historic buildings is a fascinating process that has enabled WOOLF to forge some excellent and longstanding relationships with a variety of specialist trades people. Working on the restoration and preservation of these majestic, listed period properties requires modern day designers such as ourselves to enhance and preserve their majesty. The ability to ‘enhance and preserve’ the nature of a space is a specialist skill which requires years of experience and training to obtain the level of sensibility required.
BOUTIQUE HOTELS
HOMETOO Hotel, Hamilton Square Liverpool
WOOLF has many years of experience reworking and redesigning an impressive portfolio of boutique hotels. We are considered specialists and experts in the interior design of listed buildings and period property refurbishment. Period interior redesign of hotels will often include the upgrading of Edwardian or Georgian country houses and or existing hotels.
Our portfolio of historic hotel interior design projects, is wide-ranging and each hotel has a strongly individual brand focus. We aim for versatility in hotel design, adopting a multi-sensory approach where we carefully consider the brand in every detail of the hotel’s interior. We create intriguing and integrated spaces for hotels that will have a timeless character. We bring striking hotel buildings to life in the UK and around the world, with our key focus being to communicate the essence of the brand’s story or image. As a team, WOOLF Interior Architecture & Design frequently work in tandem with architects, project managers and construction teams on demanding, complex and detailed schemes towards a common design objective.
CRAFTSMANSHIP AND BESPOKE FURNITURE
Victorian Townhouse Villa, Islington London
Craftsmanship and sustainable design are the corner stones of our Interior Design practice, we work with the very best makers and design partners who share our ethos. We always aim to support traditional artisans and skill sets that are ever increasingly being sidelined. We will source, design and rework vintage or historic designs based upon classical constructions, theories and proportions, creating timeless heritage pieces built with love, to last. Our bespoke designs are unique pieces made to order. Not only do these items then fit the space perfectly but they leave a legacy for future generations.
THE BATH STUDIO
City of Bath
In 2019 the WOOLF team decided it was time to expand and so added a new interior design studio to the London studio opening in the World Heritage City of Bath. The founder Verity Woolf returned to Bath and her "alma mater" Westonbirt roots to find a magnificent city full of Georgian and Victorian buildings with sweeping crescents, classical architecture, Roman history and modern structures, “Its is uplifting to be surrounded by grace and beauty in Bath every day”.
Opening a design studio in the City of Bath has enabled us to expand our presence into Somerset, Bristol, Frome, the West Country and beyond, down to Devon and Cornwall, while also maintaining our important London studio and work throughout the UK and beyond.
The WOOLF Bath studio is located on Upper Lansdown Crescent, an area of Bath with distinctive Georgian architectural features, located on the slopes just above the famous Royal Crescent, The Circus and neighbouring Sion Hill and the Bath School of Art & Design. The City of Bath has proved to be the most inspiring place to work from for our interior design team and we love working between the Bath and London Studios, gleaning the best from both fabulous cities and all they have to offer.
Bath is full of history, yet the city never stands still, there is always change and movement and this makes it an exciting place to be. With the vast array of stunning Georgian property, the Bath team has been fortunate enough to be involved in some fascinating projects and consultations involving Listed townhouses, historic landmark buildings and hotels as well as more contemporary projects.
SPECIALISING IN GEORGIAN PERIOD PROPERTY
Classic Georgian Townhouse, Sion Hill Bath
When redesigning a Georgian home interior we work to enhance and retain the aesthetic uniqueness of an old home; all that is especially valued including the wonky floorboards, timber sash windows, fireplaces, panelling, plasterwork, cornices, original doors, shutters and balusters. However, we also work to flood the property’s space with natural and layers of decorative lighting, add luxurious bathrooms, a fantastic open plan kitchen and maybe even extend the proportions of a period home with a modern glass extension. Our studio is an Accredited Interior Design Practice who specialise in Historic, Period and Listed buildings. We aim to make these fabulous Heritage assets fit for modern living and offer these grand and unique spaces a new lease of life. At WOOLF Interior Architecture & Design we delight in the transformation, alongside the sense of achievement in coaxing the best from a property’s rare old parts with careful restoration.
Our recent Bath residential project is a really great example of redesigning a quintessential Georgian town house in Bath where we retained and enhanced the inherent Georgian features of the house but refurbished it in a really contemporary manner, so that it was fitting for a modern young family. It is a charming and characterful Grade II listed bow-fronted Georgian villa, which sits just behind the Royal Crescent in central Bath. The original Georgian characteristics of this house were well preserved, charming and in great condition, including the long large sash windows, shutters, hallways, winding stairs and original Georgian cornices. We designed the interiors in such a way as to maintain the Georgian aesthetic, whilst also creating a fun vibrant family home full of colour and texture.
