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Interiors With Art IWA Build | IWA Design | A luxury firm with both construction and design projects in both the super prime areas of London and globally in the Middle East.

Asia, Europe and America.

17/06/2026

The spaces in between are the ones most often forgotten.

Corridors get treated as connectors, more functional, neutral and rushed through. At , we disagree.

A hallway is the first thing you feel when you enter a home, and the last thing you see when you leave. That experience deserves the same consideration as any principal room.
Here, a raw construction shell becomes a study in considered materiality: Victorian encaustic tile with a border detail underfoot, full-height lacquered joinery in oxblood with unlacquered brass hardware, hand-trowelled plaster walls, a striped wallpaper that pulls the eye toward the arched window, and a single cage pendant that warms the whole corridor at dusk.

No element is decorative for its own sake. Every choice earns its place.

This is the IWA approach - architecture and interiors resolved together, from the grandest room to the narrowest passage.
 

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There are interiors that reference art. And then there are interiors where the art is the brief.This chinoiserie wallpap...
16/06/2026

There are interiors that reference art. And then there are interiors where the art is the brief.

This chinoiserie wallpaper - hand-painted, panel by panel, inspired by the extraordinary interiors of Château de Haroué in France, was not chosen to finish the room. It was the starting point from which every other decision followed. The warmth of the walnut joinery, the restraint of the palette, the absence of anything that might compete with it.

Chinoiserie has been one of the most enduring decorative traditions in European interiors since the 18th century - a Western interpretation of East Asian art that found its most extraordinary expressions in the great houses of France. What makes it still so compelling is what it demands of a room: confidence, restraint and the willingness to let one thing be extraordinary while everything else steps back.

This is what we mean when we say a room should have a point of view.

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Most people think of the kitchen as a purely aesthetic space - the worktop material, the cabinetry finish, the hardware....
15/06/2026

Most people think of the kitchen as a purely aesthetic space - the worktop material, the cabinetry finish, the hardware. And while those decisions matter, they are not the ones that determine how the space actually performs.

The decisions that matter most are spatial ones - where the fridge sits in relation to the entrance, how much uninterrupted prep space exists, whether the layout makes cooking feel effortless or effortful.

The research is consistent: homes with generous, considered counter space cook more. Kitchens that feel cluttered or cramped get abandoned for convenience food. What you reach for first is determined almost entirely by what requires the least effort to reach. That is not a willpower problem. That is a design problem.

A wellness-led kitchen does not need to be larger. It needs to be smarter - laid out around how people actually behave, not just how the space photographs. Fridge positioned as the first point of contact. Prep space that invites cooking rather than discourages it. Storage that keeps the healthiest choices visible and the rest out of eyeline.

The kitchen is the most used room in a home. It deserves to be designed around the life lived inside it.

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12/06/2026

The details we love are rarely the ones a room is built around. They are the ones that make it unforgettable.

A staircase that becomes a sculptural moment rather than just a way to move between floors. Artwork chosen not to fill a wall, but to give a room its emotional centre. A headboard that turns the act of resting into something considered - texture, proportion, presence.

These are the moments we design toward. Not the obvious focal points, but the ones that reward a second look.

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10/06/2026

The modern Indian home is one of the most exciting design briefs in the world right now.

It carries the weight of extraordinary cultural heritage - centuries of craft, geometry, materiality and spatial thinking that the rest of the world is only beginning to pay attention to. And it is being asked, increasingly, to hold all of that history while meeting the demands of thoroughly contemporary life.

This is the tension that makes it fascinating. And this is where great design lives.

At , working across India, the Middle East and the UK, we have always believed that the strongest interiors are the ones that know where they come from. A home that references its culture with confidence - that chooses an Indian craft tradition not as nostalgia but as a considered design decision, and carries a quality that no amount of imported finish can replicate.

The modern Indian home does not have to choose between its heritage and its ambition. The best ones hold both, effortlessly.
These are the homes we love designing. And these are the homes that inspire long after the project is complete.

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08/06/2026

This is where every project begins 📍

Before a single specification is made, before a material is confirmed or a layout finalised, it starts here. Hands on samples. Fabric against stone. Texture next to texture. This is where a home begins to find its character.

At , the moodboard stage is where we make the most important decisions of a project. Not what looks good in isolation, but what works in conversation - how a linen sits next to a honed surface, how a warm tone holds against a cooler one, how the tactile weight of a material will translate into a room that is actually lived in. These are decisions that cannot be made on a screen. They have to be felt.

Every extraordinary interior starts with this exact moment - someone in a room, surrounded by possibility, editing down to only what is true to the space.

What you are watching is the beginning of someone’s home.

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Your home has a lighting scheme. The question is whether anyone designed it intentionally? The human body runs on a 24-h...
05/06/2026

Your home has a lighting scheme. The question is whether anyone designed it intentionally?

The human body runs on a 24-hour internal clock governed by light. Blue-spectrum morning light suppresses melatonin and boosts serotonin - the neurochemical behind focus, mood and alertness. As evening arrives, the brain looks for warmth and dimness as its signal to begin winding down and producing melatonin for sleep.

Most homes interrupt this process entirely, not through bad taste but through an absence of thought about light as a biological tool rather than a decorative one.

Circadian lighting design is one of the most impactful and least discussed decisions in a luxury home. It is not about the fitting. It is about the colour temperature, the layering, the direction, and critically - the ability to shift throughout the day. A home with fixed, cool-white lighting at 9 PM is a home actively working against its occupants’ sleep and recovery.

At IWA, lighting is specified the way materials are specified - with intention, with science, and with a precise understanding of how each room is used at each hour of the day. Morning rooms face east. Bedrooms are designed for darkness. Living spaces are layered so that by evening, overhead sources are off and warmth takes over entirely.

This is what it means to design for the body, not just the eye.

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03/06/2026

The most extraordinary things we have ever put in a home did not come from a showroom. They came from a craftsman nobody has heard of.

When Ekta talks about hand-carved stonework, she is not talking about a finish or a material choice. She is talking about a living lineage - techniques that trace back to the caves of Ellora, carried forward through generations of families who passed the knowledge hand to hand, chisel to chisel. The geometry, the patience, the understanding of how stone behaves under pressure - none of it exists in a catalogue.

In a world moving fast toward the synthetic and the automated, there is something quietly radical about choosing a material that took a human being weeks to make. It does not just add beauty to a home. It adds history, intention and a story that cannot be replicated because no two hands work the same way.

This is what artisanal craft means to us. Not nostalgia. Not decoration. A standard of making that the rest of the world is slowly forgetting and one we believe luxury homes have a responsibility to preserve.

Your floor plan has a biology. Most people never know it.The position of your bedroom affects your cortisol overnight. T...
01/06/2026

Your floor plan has a biology. Most people never know it.

The position of your bedroom affects your cortisol overnight.

The direction your morning room faces determines whether your body receives the light it needs to regulate your circadian rhythm within the first hour of waking.

The acoustic properties of your walls, the ceiling height of your living room, the width of a corridor - all of it is being processed by your nervous system, whether you are aware of it or not.

This is not wellness as an aesthetic. This is the science of how buildings behave inside the body.

Chronobiology has been informing the most considered residential design for over a decade. North-facing bedrooms support deeper sleep. East-facing rooms deliver morning light at the precise moment the body needs it. These are not design preferences. They are biological requirements that a floor plan either supports or works against.

At , we design from the inside out. The most luxurious thing a home can do is make you feel better simply by being inside it. Not because it looks beautiful, though it will but because every decision was made with your body in mind.

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29/05/2026

A wallpaper is not always decoration. Sometimes it is the entire story of a room.

This mural with cranes in still water, peonies at rest, bamboo catching no wind - does something that most surfaces cannot. It slows you down. Not because it is busy, but because it rewards attention. The longer you look, the more it gives back.

A wall is the largest canvas in a room, and what you place on it sets the emotional register for everything else. Get it right and the whole space finds its tone.

What makes a mural like this work is not the imagery alone. It is the restraint around it, the warmth of the walnut joinery below, the absence of competition, the way the lighting above grazes rather than floods. The art is given space to breathe, and in return it makes the room feel alive.

This is what it means to treat a wall as a design decision rather than a finishing choice.

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