Five of the Best Interior Designers for 2025

Today’s era-defining interiors specialists merge architecture, design, art and craft to spectacular effect. What distinguishes their schemes is narrative: everything is part of a bigger story. Walls, floors, ceilings and staircases set the scene for the one-off pieces on display. This is the spirit of modernism, layered with personality – and here are five of the best international design names to watch in 2025.

Hannes Peer
In true northern Italian style, Hannes Peer moves with ease between the disciplines of architecture, interiors and furniture. He set up his studio in Milan in 2009 and is recognised for his architectural rigour, which combines craftsmanship and flair. He synthesises cultural and historical stories into his work – a process creating what he refers to as a “palimpsest”. His design interventions are show-stopping and his selection of furnishings fresh, whether custom-made or vintage. Peer brings his immersive approach to intimate residential spaces such as the Casa dei Giardini and Maison Prada in Milan and large-scale hospitality projects that include The Manner hotel in New York.
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Pierre Yovanovitch
It’s not just black-rimmed spectacles and a mop of dark hair that invite comparisons between Pierre Yovanovitch and Yves Saint Laurent – the French interior designer has talent too. He brings a facility with line, shape and proportion to the tailoring of space.

Informed by French modernism and the Swedish grace movement, Yovanovitch’s interiors tell stories through texture, volume, meandering lines and light. They weave their way through his architecture (statement chimney breasts) and furnishings (sculptural seating and monolithic tables). He incorporates new and vintage pieces, combining the raw and the refined, magnificently showcased at Château de Fabrègues, his residence in the south of France, and offices in Paris and New York.
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Shalini Misra
When designing an interior, Shalini Misra lets art and craft pieces take the lead – she builds her schemes around them. Trained in Delhi and New York, and based in London, she celebrates the artistry and craftsmanship of India in her work, but also harvests original pieces on her travels round the world. She favours sumptuous materials that shine, balanced with contrasting textures and contemporary forms. Misra’s practice is behind high-end interiors in Chelsea, Belgravia and Mayfair. She also has projects in development in Geneva, New York and Hong Kong. In 2022, she launched a sister brand, Curio, which offers a global edit of unique art, handcrafted objects and furnishings.
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Jeremiah Brent
To some, Jeremiah Brent is the interiors guy from the TV – he is a host on America’s hugely popular Queer Eye. To others, he is the Californian designer shaping the luxuriously minimal interiors of the fortunate and famous across the US. His is an emotional approach to design. He seeks “deep familiarity” with his clients in order to create spaces filled with personal meaning.

The results have a touch of Belgian monasticism, strong shapes and a colour palette that’s fiercely neutral but rich with nuance. “It’s got nothing to do with opulence and everything to do with creating spaces strong enough to bolster emotional moments that keep us tethered to the home,” he says.
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Rafael de Cárdenas
The style of Rafael de Cárdenas isn’t easily defined. Starting out as a designer for Calvin Klein, he retrained in architecture and set up his studio in 2006. He now moves between offices in New York and London, and covers interiors too. His background has made his work less about one definitive style and more about mood – he creates “atmospheric effects”, even scripting the way you might experience a space. At his first ground-up build, in America’s Pacific Northwest, one space is called the Rain Room: its primary function is to capture ocean views and the sound of rain on glass, although it can also serve as a dining room and a wellness space. De Cárdenas’s furnishings are sculptural and graphic.
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