Interiors & Architecture
EF Architectural Design is an interiors and architecture studio led by Elisa Felisatti — working with hotels, retreats and private homes across three continents.
Worldwide · Since 2016
The Studio
For ten years the studio has designed hotels, retreats and homes across Europe, the Americas and Australia — a glamping hotel on the rim of an Australian canyon, a beachfront hotel in the Bahamas, and private homes, from complete renovations to a single, carefully drawn kitchen.
Hotels begin with the land — the view, the walk, the hours guests spend outdoors. Homes begin with the people who live in them: how they cook, gather and rest. What both share is the standard — proportion, light and material, resolved down to the last detail.
Where a building sits, what it frames, what it leaves alone. The site is read before a line is drawn, and nothing is placed to compete with a view it could belong to.
Inside and outside are drawn as a single sequence. A terrace is a room; a path is a corridor; a threshold deserves the same care as a kitchen.
Not more — better. The shadow gap, the stone edge, the way a door closes. Quiet rooms, precisely made.
A ridge-top glamping hotel above the widest canyon in the southern hemisphere. The bubble suite set the geometry — one circle, repeated: the platform, the parasols, the fire pit, the paths. Two suites are open; three more are in design.
A beachfront hotel arranged around the water rather than the road.
A clinical programme in a domestic register — a retreat that heals without announcing it.
A pool club held low against the rock, sized to the horizon.
A cottage opened up without losing what made it a cottage.
Midcentury bones, playful colour — a kitchen and basement that don’t take themselves too seriously.
A Japandi bathroom in the high desert — stone, timber and one calm window.
The Practice
From the first conversation to the final drawing, every project stays in the same hands — delivered remotely, for clients anywhere in the world.
Hotels, retreats, camps and short-stay concepts, from masterplan to the last light fitting. We design for the hours guests spend outdoors — the fire, the water, the walk between — and let the building follow.
Houses and apartments for people who notice how a room is entered, and where the light falls at five in the afternoon. Full interiors, kitchens and bathrooms — drawn to be built.
Sister Studio · Short-Term Rentals
Short-term rentals are a discipline of their own: interiors that photograph beautifully, survive turnover, and repay their nightly rate. That work has its own home.
Designed to Book — DtB — is our dedicated studio for Airbnbs and holiday lets, delivering turnkey design alongside the hosts and community managers who run them.
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Trained in interior design and in practice for ten years — first from Montevideo, now from Oxford — for clients across three continents.
The studio is deliberately small: a few projects at a time, so each one is drawn, checked and styled with the same eye.
Elisa Felisatti
New Projects
The best time to write is early — before the site is settled, while the land can still shape the building. Say where it is and how it should feel; we reply within two working days.
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