Consultancy


Swain Street & Co (SS&Co) provides interdisciplinary design and architectural direction for residential work as well as bespoke consultancy services, supporting clients with more complex projects in the United States and far-flung locations. The firm’s portfolio includes a growing number of commissions for the hospitality and commercial sectors.

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This approach sees SS&Co as the overall creative lead and client advocate, interpreting and distilling the client’s vision, developing comprehensive goals, communicating direction to other stakeholders and providing end-to-end project delivery from a holistic, creative, and design perspective. In short, the studio ensures that the different disciplines on these projects harmonize to deliver both the client’s aesthetic requirements and commercial goals.

The firm’s role takes projects from concept to completion, helping the client visualize their ambitions and then articulating them to the various professions, acting as the conceptual innovator throughout the process. To that end, the scope of services includes all aspects of interior architecture from programmatic design to custom cabinetry, specifying soft furnishings and developing lighting concepts. SS&Co helps achieve solutions and results that balance creativity and technical expertise.

On larger projects SS&Co often partners with specialists on art purchasing, placement, and lighting schemes. If requested, the studio will also collaborate with landscape designers or architects to develop a connection between the site’s interior and exterior spaces to ensure consistency with the broader vision.
Across the studio’s projects, SS&Co reimagines and adapts historic buildings with elements of respectful new construction to create something exciting and relevant. Equally the practice advises on new build projects, liaising with a range of team members to create and deliver modern design that is warm, inviting, and exists in a contemporary world while weaving in local culture and historic experiences. From beginning to end, each consultancy project is tailored to the client’s vision.

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