IMMERSIVE & CINEMATIC DESIGN THROUGH STORYTELLING
Founded in London in 2011 by Tom Strother and Steven Saunders, Fabled Studio is an award-winning interior design practice with an international portfolio of restaurants, bars, hotels, private residences and retail spaces. The studio is recognised for its cinematic interiors: richly layered environments in which narrative, craftsmanship and a confident use of colour establish a distinctive sense of place.
Storytelling is the starting point. Each project develops from an exploration of its context—the history of a building, the character of a neighbourhood or the culinary vision of a chef. These discoveries inform a coherent design language, expressed through spatial composition, materials, furniture, lighting and art. The resulting interiors invite discovery, revealing their character through both the atmosphere of a room and the intimacy of its details.
Fabled Studio’s expertise in luxury hospitality interior design is informed by collaborations with leading hotel groups, restaurateurs and chefs. Its portfolio includes work for Crown in Australia, Four Seasons in Prague, Conrad in Dublin, alongside projects for Marriott, Sushisamba, The Wolseley Hospitality Group, Gordon Ramsay, Heston Blumenthal and Clare Smyth. This breadth of experience underpins an approach to restaurant, bar and hotel design that considers the guest experience alongside the operational demands of hospitality.
Led by its founders, the boutique practice brings an exacting eye to proportion, scale and the relationship between objects and architecture. Its work encompasses interior architecture and interior design, bespoke furniture and lighting, and individually developed textiles and finishes. Custom pieces become part of the project’s identity, connecting the larger narrative to the objects guests see, touch and use.
Individuality remains central to the studio’s work. Each commission is conceived around its client and setting, with the ambition to create interiors of enduring character—places that feel particular, memorable and entirely their own.
Tom Strother
Tom developed a love of design early in life, when his artist Grandmother suggested he was a natural born designer and ought to pursue his livelihood in the field. Naturally gravitating towards Interior Design, Tom gained a degree in Interior Design at the illustrious Leeds college of Art and Design and began his career at one of the London’s leading design studios.
After a number of years working internationally on some of the world’s most renowned restaurants and hotels, Tom co-founded Fabled Studio in 2011 and was quickly recognised in the Evening Standard’s ‘Power 1000’ as one of London’s most influential designers. Tom continues to build on his design approach today combining his ongoing love of the art world, drawing upon the composition, palette and textures with an unresting eye for fine detail.
Steven Saunders
Steven gained his degree in Three-Dimensional Design at The Arts Institute Bournemouth after studying Fine Art, affording him a natural flourish of creativity grounded with a practical reasoning that he applies to each and every Fabled project.
Listed in The Evening Standard’s Power 1000; highlighting the top 1000 influential people in London, along with being entered into The Who’s Who List of Influential People around the World, Steven continues to strive for originality and beauty in design through the storytelling narratives that are intrinsic to the Studio’s aesthetic.