Our approach

From first idea to finished building.

SOANE is an all-rounder by design. We take a client the whole way — architecture, interiors, furniture and construction management, under one roof. End to end, no handoffs.

Under one roof

One practice, four disciplines, one standard.

Most heritage projects are passed between hands — architect to interior designer to contractor — and value leaks at every seam. We hold the whole. The result is coherence: a building, its rooms and its details resolved as a single idea.

Architecture

Conservation-led design for listed and historic buildings — restoration, repair, sensitive extension and reordering.

Interiors

Interiors resolved with the architecture, not bolted on afterwards — proportion, light and material, considered as one.

Furniture

Where a room asks for it, furniture designed and made to suit the building and the life within it.

Construction management

We see the building through to completion — programme, trades and quality held to account on site.

Vision to Value™

The hidden value, brought into the light.

Vision to Value™ is the methodology that runs through every commission — a disciplined path from understanding to completion.

01 — Read

Understand the asset

Every commission begins with the building — its history, its fabric, its constraints and its listing. We read what makes it singular, and what the records do not yet show. Substance before scheme.

02 — Respond

Reveal the value

A considered response that honours the listing and the life within it — and reveals value that was always there but unseen. This is the lens at work: black and white, until seen through it.

03 — Resolve

Finish the building

Architecture, interiors, furniture and construction management, resolved end to end. One practice, one line of responsibility, from first idea to finished building.

Speak to Giles.

Tell us about the building, and what you have in mind. We reply personally, and in confidence.

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