Useful interior design

Much like slow food or good clothes the places we live, work, meet & shop in can be made with care and enjoyed over time.

We prioritise keeping existing above building new, use time and material resourcefully, and design interior space to work, look good, wear-well and adapt: the opposite of fashionable & disposable.

For everyone & any space
Work with cultural and commercial clients, homeowners, shopkeepers, start-ups and anyone with a building and a question: all types and scale of project, same pragmatic, uncomplicated approach.

How it works
Collaboratively & flexibly.

Directly with clients, start to finish or discrete stages, specialist interior input for architects & developers and technical advice for project teams. Or something else? Always open to a new way of doing things.

Whatever the scope it starts with a conversation, a site visit, gathering a brief and looking at all options to align ambition with practicalities.

If you have something in mind send a quick message & we’ll see how we can help.

What we do

building review
re-use audit
brief
concept
feasibility
research
space planning
material
detail
custom joinery
specification
on-site
identity
furniture
furniture & art

Amanda Culpin Interior Designer
has a background in commercial practice with Sheppard Robson and Conran&Partners, has lived & worked in France, Australia and Chile, now combines design with teaching & consultancy.

A graduate from University of Cambridge CISL Business Sustainability Management, and a signatory to UK Interior Design Declares, Amanda Culpin & Utility are part of a community of designers, suppliers and educators committed to addressing the climate and biodiversity emergency.