LOU DAVIES / Founder
25+ years Architecture AND Interior Design

CAROLINE HUNTER / Founder
25+ years Architecture AND Interior Design

LUCY FRANKS / DIRECTOR
10+ years Interior Design and styling

OUR STORY

Box 9 Design Ltd was founded in 2007 by Lou Davies and Caroline Hunter following a 10-year career together as directors at a top west London practice. We have been practising architecture, designing interiors, and collaborating with exceptional makers to create furniture and objects for over 25 years.

Our partnership is founded on a mutual, unwavering desire to seek the most elegant, refined, and restrained design solution. In 2023, Lucy Franks joined the heart of our business and brings with her an extremely rare and raw talent for pairing texture, tones, objects, and proportions.

Our practice now spans experience from pure architecture, through to interiors and furniture making, to styling and photography. Our small but passionate team takes a holistic approach to design and ensures every aspect of a design is balanced together and considered deeply as one sculpted form.

OUR PURPOSE

Our mission is to prove that sustainable and regenerative design is the most beautiful solution. We work with natural, reclaimed, and waste materials layered with stories. We collaborate, respect, and value the people and planet around us. We measure the positive impact of our designs as we move forward, continuously reflecting on our practices to build better.

Box 9 celebrates and has a deep respect for craft and for innovation, with a thoughtful desire to always challenge the status quo. We have built a practice known for our unconventional approach to architecture and interiors and for nurturing relationships with makers, artists, and artisans that we have the privilege of surrounding ourselves with. We combine our technical experience, our on-site experience, innovation, and admiration for design excellence into every project and client we have the privilege of working with.

THE DETAILS

Lou, Caroline, and Lucy run the studio, offering a highly dedicated and personal service to a select few clients. We collaborate with innovative and creative makers and designers from across the globe to form unique teams inspired to deliver beautiful things that will leave a positive impact on our wellbeing and the health of our planet.

Our projects range from handcrafted products and furniture to award-winning restaurants, private homes, and rural retreats.

OUR SERVICES

With over 25 years of international experience specialising in Hospitality, Commercial and Residential Design, we offer a complete Architecture and Interior Design service from concept to completion.

We approach our work holistically, considering the texture, tone, and tale behind each material and object we bring into our projects. Our innovative library of waste materials, alongside a black book of craftspeople who care as much as we do, ensures your project and all that sits within it have a gentle footprint and last for years to come.

ARCHITECTURE

  • Define the essence of your design by meeting to discuss your brief and vision.

  • Building Evaluation – site asssessment in the early stages of project planning ensures the building aligns with the brief.

  • Arrange site analysis, measured building, topographical, and ecological surveys whilst providing advice on building suitability and the opportunities the site presents.

  • Concept decks that creatively translate your brief, responding to your unique project and space.

  • Develop early costing information -  alongside expert project managers and quantity surveyors, ensuring the vision aligns with your budget.

  • Planning pre-applications - alongside specialist planning consultants

  • Full planning application documents, listed building applications, building control documents, and any other reports necessary to ensure you receive the required approvals to allow us to deliver our design.

  • Detailed drawing packs, working alongside a team of specialists, including structural engineers, M&E consultants, furniture makers, and material innovators.

  • Full Tender + Construction drawing packs, coorindated with all specialists' drawing packs and assist a project manager in tendering your project.

  • Ensure the design meets your budget expectations - working closely with our clients and wider team. Our expertise will recognise when there is nothing more to add or take away.

  • Our team are hands-on; we are on-site regularly, liaising with contractors and specialists to deliver your project.

  • Handover projects on completion with snagging reports and ongoing support.

INTERIORS

  • Full interior design service from concept to delivery, installation, and styling for all our architecture clients.

  • Furniture and lighting intents, sourcing, collaborating, designing, and making, where every component is considered against the wider intent.

  • Furniture and lighting layouts with schedules and detailed fabrication drawings, working alongside both craft and technical specialists to deliver unique pieces.

  • Detailed costing documents for procurement - working closely with our keen makers to deliver the detail on your behalf, ensuring the quality of every piece meets our drive for excellence.

  • Full delivery and installation service, ensuring every piece is checked and perfectly placed.

  • Styling and photography, ensuring your space looks and feels as we know it should.

OBJECTS

  • A refined collection of nine pieces that distil our company ethos: a strive for excellence, recognition of craft, and support for innovation.

  • We source, curate, and pass on to you objects that catch our eye and align with our principles.

  • We care about waste. When our work generates excess material, we like to use it to create items of interest.