Adrian Chan Design and Research

Adrian Chan Design & Research Office, or ADRO, is an interiors practice in the US that treats physical, economic and social limits as the starting point rather than as obstacles. Chan founded it after spells at Hirsch Bedner Associates, Rockwell Group and Cannon Design, where he worked on five-star hotels and resorts including Waldorf Astoria and Hilton.

He holds an M.S. in Interior Design from Pratt Institute, a graduate diploma from Chelsea College of Art and a B.S. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and that mix shows in an evidence-based, minimalist method: research into site, history and narrative first, then a restrained material language. The studio has completed commercial and residential work in the US, Hong Kong and Japan, and its work has appeared in Dwell, Frame, Interior Design Magazine and Fast Company.