Best Interior Designers in San Francisco

The practice is structured as a collective of interior designers, interior architects and furniture designers, which is why it can take on ground-up estates and hospitality projects alike. Residential work accounts for most of the studio's output, with hospitality (Kona Village Resort, 1 Hotel San Francisco) making up the balance. The Bay Area portfolio runs from Presidio Heights, Russian Hill and Broadway residences to Atherton and Rosewood Sand Hill on the Peninsula and Alexander Valley in wine country. A Rizzoli monograph, Artistry of Home, was published in 2024.

Client reviews are few because the firm works almost entirely by referral; its Houzz profile shows a 5.0 rating from a handful of reviews. Expect a large team, a long timeline and a project scale to match.

The firm offers integrated design of architecture, landscape, furniture and art, with the curation of fine and decorative art, vintage and contemporary, as a core service. Project types run from historic estates to glass-and-steel penthouses and country retreats, for clients that include art collectors and senior figures in technology, in San Francisco, Atherton, the Napa Valley, New York, Los Angeles, London and Paris. Volpe is essentially a modernist with a less-is-more sensibility, and he sits on the board of the Chinati Foundation in Marfa.

This is not a firm with a public review footprint; it is referral-driven and best approached with an estate-scale brief.

Tucker describes the look as "European in look but West Coast in scale": timeless, highly personalized homes that balance European influence with a Californian sense of ease. Recognition is extensive. The firm was repeatedly named to the AD100 between 2007 and 2014, holds Luxe Gold List placements in 2016, 2022 and 2023, and Tucker received the Albert Hadley Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York School of Interior Design in 2023 and the ICAA Julia Morgan Award in 2016. Three monographs have been published with Monacelli, most recently Extraordinary Interiors in 2022.

Bay Area projects include Pacific Heights residences, a San Francisco penthouse, a Georgian residence on the Peninsula, Carmel Valley estates and a Napa cottage, alongside work in Bel Air, New York, Montana and Hawaii.

Niche won a Luxe RED Award in 2025 for a modern San Francisco Victorian designed with William Duff Architects, has twice made the Luxe Gold List and holds 24 Houzz awards, including Best of Houzz Design in 2024, 2025 and 2026. Its 63 Houzz reviews average a perfect 5.0. The studio is candid about scale: typical furnishing budgets start around $1 million, remodels run 12 to 18 months and custom builds two to four years. Recent work includes an 8,000-square-foot ground-up home in Hillsborough, completed in 2026.

The signature is personalized interiors that combine classic detailing with the restraint of modern design, often with vintage pieces mixed in so a new home feels collected. City projects include an extensive interior and exterior renovation of a historic San Francisco home, a sensitive 7,000-square-foot renovation in Presidio Heights, and houses in Pacific Heights, Cow Hollow, Nob Hill and Alamo Square; on the Peninsula the firm has completed six Hillsborough projects plus homes in Atherton and Los Altos Hills. Typical projects start around $500,000. Hilliard made the Luxe Gold List in 2020 and 2022 and has designed nine juried rooms at the San Francisco Decorator Showcase.

Wilkinson's San Francisco portfolio includes the amenities floor and a penthouse at 181 Fremont, a Millennium Tower residence, Pacific Heights homes and a Sea Cliff residence, alongside Hillsborough family houses, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Lake Tahoe and Jackson Hole. She designs textiles for Fabricut and furniture and lighting with Iatesta Studio, published the monograph Beauty All Around in 2025 and was named to the Luxe Gold List in 2023 and 2026. The firm belongs to the AD PRO Directory and the Design Leadership Network.

In the city Fulk's residential work includes Birch Castle, a five-story home, and the four-year renovation of a roughly 9,000-square-foot 1912 Ernest Coxhead house in Presidio Heights published by Elle Decor; on the Peninsula and in wine country the portfolio lists Hummingbird Hill and The Mill in Woodside, Durham Ranch in St. Helena and compounds in Sonoma, Glen Ellen and Healdsburg. Hospitality credits include The Battery, Leo's Oyster Bar, Tosca Cafe and the interiors of the Huntington Hotel on Nob Hill, which reopened in 2026. Fulk joined the Elle Decor A-List in 2016, has been named to the AD100 and has made the 1stDibs 50 repeatedly since 2018, and has published books with Abrams and Assouline.

The studio restores and extends period homes, and its recent portfolio includes a 1940 Tudor in Belvedere featured by the 1stDibs 50, a 1920s San Francisco penthouse restoration, a Noe Valley Victorian whose square footage was doubled, a Bay Area Eichler and a Lake Tahoe ski house. Geremia was named to the AD100 in 2024 and to the 1stDibs 50 in 2024, 2025 and 2026, made the Luxe Gold List in 2019, and was an AD "Ones to Watch" and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree earlier in her career. Typical projects run from $500,000 to $10 million.

Nozawa's philosophy is that the best design feels like coming home to yourself; Sunset dubbed her the queen of colorful interiors. Projects include new-build homes in Noe Valley and Cole Valley, the Japanese Victorian, the Mira penthouse, a Nob Hill jewel box and restaurants such as Hilda and Jesse in North Beach. She has been named to the 1stDibs 50 in 2023, 2025 and 2026 and the Luxe Gold List in 2024 and 2026, was an Architectural Digest New American Voices and House Beautiful Next Wave honoree in 2020, and San Francisco Magazine named Noz Design its Best Interior Design Firm for 2026.

Schlarb co-founded his first studio in 2002 and has more than two decades of experience. The portfolio is dense with San Francisco neighborhoods, including a 1914 Tudor Revival renovation in Presidio Heights and homes in Pacific Heights, Russian Hill, the Marina, Telegraph Hill and Nob Hill, with Peninsula projects in Hillsborough and Atherton and wine-country houses in Sonoma and Healdsburg. He has designed rooms at the San Francisco Decorator Showcase in 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2018, was a 1stDibs Designer to Watch in 2022 and received Modern Luxury Interiors' Best of Luxury Design recognition in 2025.

The design philosophy fuses scale and composition to unite sophisticated luxury with effortless ease; Giannone says she has no interest in recreating the same designs over and over. Notable work includes the restoration of a 1906 Edwardian brick house in Pacific Heights with architect Ken Linsteadt, residences in Presidio Heights, Laurel Heights and Cow Hollow, a Sonoma getaway and a Tribeca loft featured by Architectural Digest. ABD was a first-year honoree of the 1stDibs 50 in 2022 and has been published in Vogue Living, Luxe, California Homes and San Francisco Magazine.

Lin describes the work as eclectic modernism with an emphasis on contemporary art and architectural detailing, and the studio's stated north star is empathy: interiors designed for joy and well-being. Architectural Digest featured its science-fiction-inspired SoMa home in 2026 and another project in 2024; a Noe Valley Edwardian renovation appeared in 1stDibs Introspective; and the firm was an Interior Design Best of Year finalist in 2023 and an HD Awards finalist for Ayesha Curry's Sweet July store. Its 39 Houzz reviews average 5.0 and it holds nine Best of Houzz awards.

ODADA's San Francisco work includes the lobby, 52nd-floor Sky Lounge and 55 custom condominiums at 181 Fremont, a private residence and model apartment in the same tower, a Pacific Heights penthouse, Russian Hill and China Basin pieds-à-terre and a One Steuart Lane residence published by Luxe in 2026. Beyond the city the portfolio runs to a Woodside residence, a Santa Lucia Preserve estate, Napa Valley compounds, East Hampton, Manhattan and Honolulu, together with hotels, offices and wineries.

The work blends classic and contemporary elements into comfortable, elegant and timeless rooms. Projects include a full renovation of an 1,800-square-foot Telegraph Hill condominium, the furnishing of a 4,500-square-foot glass-walled house in Pacific Heights, a Cole Valley Victorian renovation, a Noe Valley family home, Calistoga and Napa Valley projects, a San Mateo family home and a Mayfair flat in London. Maquette has won Best of Houzz awards repeatedly since 2015, including 2025 and 2026, and its 37 Houzz reviews average 5.0.