20 Best Interior Designers
in Australia 2026

One of Australia's most prolific and celebrated design firms, SJB Interiors — under the leadership of Andrew Parr, Ljiljana Gazevic and Léo Terrando — commands an extensive portfolio of luxury residential, retail and commercial projects. Their Sydney and Melbourne offices deliver seamlessly integrated architecture and interior design across some of Australia's most prestigious addresses. Known for bold material choices and a deep understanding of craft, SJB Interiors has won multiple Australian Interior Design Awards across several categories.

Foolscap Studio is a hospitality and retail design powerhouse, with a string of 2026 Australian Interior Design Awards shortlistings including the Garde Hotel in Perth. The Melbourne-based studio crafts environments with cinematic narrative depth — every fitout tells a story through material, light and spatial sequence. Their retail work for Song for the Mute's first Melbourne store drew national praise for its restraint and precision.

Mim Design, founded by Miriam Fanning, is one of Melbourne's most respected luxury residential and hospitality studios. With a keen eye for opulent restraint — rich materials deployed with structural confidence — Mim Design has become the go-to studio for Melbourne's high-net-worth residential clients. The studio's hospitality portfolio includes some of Melbourne's most talked-about hotel interiors, and their residential work frequently features in Vogue Living and The Design Files.

Greg Natale is arguably Australia's most internationally recognised interior designer, with a signature vocabulary of bold geometry, pattern and colour that has earned global editorial coverage. His Sydney studio specialises in luxury residential interiors and has extended its influence into product design and furniture collections. With a prolific publishing record and a loyal following among Sydney's Eastern Suburbs and North Shore clients, Greg Natale remains a dominant force in Australian interior design in 2026.

Led by design partners Juliette Arent and Sarah-Jane Pyke, Arent&Pyke is celebrated for interiors that balance everyday livability with extraordinary beauty. Their Sydney studio has built a stellar reputation for residential projects that feel personally curated rather than stylistically imposed — homes that reflect their owners' singular lives. Arent&Pyke's work has been published globally and the duo are frequent contributors to design discourse in Australia and internationally.

Hecker Guthrie is one of Melbourne's most sophisticated hospitality and residential design studios, known for interiors of quiet refinement and spatial intelligence. The studio's hospitality work — across Melbourne's CBD, Southbank and inner suburbs — consistently draws critical praise for the way it orchestrates materiality and atmosphere. In 2026, their hotel and apartment projects continue to set a benchmark for elevated interior design in Victoria.

Founded in 2014 by Directors Dave Bickmore and Graham Charbonneau, Studio Gram is a leading Adelaide-based architecture and interior design practice known for its narrative-driven approach and refined yet experimental spirit. The studio has propelled South Australia's design profile nationally, earning numerous awards for hospitality and commercial projects that demonstrate an exceptional sensitivity to place, material and storytelling. Studio Gram is the most awarded design studio in South Australia.

J.AR Office is Brisbane's most acclaimed interior design studio, awarded the Premier Award for Australian Interior Design at the 2025 Australian Interior Design Awards for their project Central — praised by the jury as "highly inventive" and "executed with a level of cleverness that uses constraints to its advantage." Their 2026 work continues this trajectory, with Brisbane hospitality projects Golden Avenue and Marlowe (inside a heritage-listed art deco apartment block) both shortlisted for the 2026 AIDA.

Flack Studio under David Flack is synonymous with maximalist luxury — jewel tones, considered pattern, and a fearlessness with colour that sets their residential and hospitality work apart from more reserved contemporaries. Based in Melbourne's inner north, the studio has attracted a loyal international clientele who want interiors with genuine personality. Flack Studio's projects appear regularly in Vogue Living, Belle and Architectural Digest.

Founded in 1938 in Adelaide, South Australia, Hassell is one of Australia's most influential multidisciplinary design practices, spanning architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and urban planning. With studios across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and internationally, Hassell has shaped some of Australia's most significant public and commercial interiors — from transport infrastructure to workplace design and cultural institutions. The firm ranks among the top 25 architecture practices globally.

Gray Puksand is one of Australia's premier architecture and interior design firms for workplace, education, and healthcare environments. With Principal Maria Correia serving on the 2025 Australian Interior Design Awards jury, the studio's industry standing is beyond question. Their workplace design practice in particular has produced some of Australia's most progressive office environments, helping clients across Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane transition to post-pandemic activity-based working models.

Pattern Studio has become one of Australia's most sought-after retail and brand-environment specialists. Their 2026 AIDA shortlistings for three distinct retail projects — including Melbourne's Above the Clouds and the St Agni Sydney store — demonstrate an exceptional versatility across fashion and lifestyle retail design. Pattern Studio excels at translating brand values into three-dimensional spaces, creating retail environments that become destinations in their own right.

Studio Doherty, led by Mardi Doherty — a jury member for the 2026 Australian Interior Design Awards — is one of Melbourne's leading studios for residential and hospitality design. Known for layered, material-rich interiors that feel simultaneously contemporary and deeply considered, the studio has a particularly strong reputation for homes in Melbourne's inner suburbs and on the Mornington Peninsula. Their approach balances livability with genuine design ambition.

Anna Spiro is Brisbane's most beloved residential interior designer — a vibrant, colour-saturated aesthetic built on bold pattern mixing, antique furniture and an unapologetically joyful approach to decorating. Her Brisbane-based studio takes on a limited number of residential commissions each year, and there is typically a waiting list. Spiro also has a successful fabric and wallpaper line and has authored widely read design books. She is a genuine ambassador for Queensland interior design.

Founded in 1993 by David Hillam, Hillam Architects has grown into one of Perth's most respected architecture and interior design studios, grounded in the belief that design profoundly shapes quality of life. The Perth-based studio delivers exceptional residential and commercial interiors across Western Australia, with a particularly strong reputation for coastal and riverside homes in suburbs such as Cottesloe, Mosman Park and South Perth. Their work embodies the relaxed sophistication of the West Australian lifestyle.

Studio Plenty is one of Perth's most talked-about emerging interior design studios. Their project Light Years was shortlisted in the 2026 Australian Interior Design Awards, signalling the studio's arrival as a serious national force. With a philosophy centred on playfulness, material experimentation and environments that genuinely delight their users, Studio Plenty is at the forefront of a new generation of Western Australian design talent reshaping Perth's design culture.

Siren Design is one of Australia's largest commercial interior design studios, with Sydney as its spiritual home and offices across Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Singapore. The firm's portfolio of corporate workplace and tech-sector interiors is unmatched in Australia — headline projects include the Twitter Singapore and Facebook Sydney headquarters. Siren's depth of commercial design expertise and ability to deliver large, complex workplace transformations at scale makes it a standout for corporate clients nationally.

AtelierBond is a South Australian architecture and interiors studio that brings international experience to clients who want more than good design. Based in Adelaide but working across residential, hospitality and retail sectors nationally, AtelierBond creates beautiful, deeply personal homes and spaces shaped around the client's life, location and actual way of living. The studio's international credentials set it apart from most Adelaide competitors and make it an excellent choice for ambitious South Australian projects.

Brahman Perera — the Melbourne designer who gave his name to his studio — is known for interiors with an intensely personal, almost editorial quality: spaces that feel like they could not have been designed by anyone else. Serving as a juror for the 2026 Australian Interior Design Awards reflects the immense respect the Australian design community has for his judgement and aesthetic vision. His residential and hospitality projects in Melbourne's Fitzroy, Collingwood and inner-north are benchmarks for considered, evocative design.