Rabih Hage and his Studio design on a human scale, from the inside out, taking inspiration from the studio’s clients and their personalities to create artfully effortless spaces that are suffused with warmth, a subtle wit, and an exquisite feeling for volume, structure, light and colour.
The Studio’s continually evolving creative approach encompasses everything; from designing interiors to creating bespoke furniture for private clients; from designing new buildings to creating design concepts for developers. Rabih Hage sees little distinction between his practice as an architect and as an interior designer. “There should not be any separation between the disciplines,” he argues; “it’s about bringing out what’s best for a building that’s important, respecting its history, looking after it for future generations.”
Rabih Hage, the studio founder, is a RIBA chartered architect and interior designer who divides his time between London, New York and the South of France. His work has been recognised with numerous awards from the design industry, including the Andrew Martin Interior Designer of the Year Award, 2011, the Homes & Gardens Award for Interior Design, 2012, and regular nomination by House & Garden and Architectural Digest (France) as one of the top 100 leading designers over the past two decades.
He has been knighted by the French Republic as a Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite for his services to design.
Rabih has been a pioneer in many areas. He was a forerunner of the limited edition design movement, and has been working with artists and designer-makers since the early 2000s to create one off or limited edition furniture and artworks for clients and collectors. His pioneering online design think-tank, DeTnk, identified new talents while publishing the Collectable Design Market Report, a highly anticipated analysis of auction house data on this now established market, now available by special commission.
His experience of working on existing structures, whether medieval châteaux in France or listed buildings with complex planning regulations in Britain, coupled with his acute awareness of the short life spans of contemporary architecture (many modern buildings are only built to last a few decades), has made Rabih a passionate advocate of what he calls, “Quiet Architecture,” where instead of razing and rebuilding, architects should repurpose existing structures where possible with intelligence, subtlety and wit.