Claudia Unterhauser

Claudia Unterhauser is an interior designer based in South Tyrol. She studied architecture in Vienna and worked in an architectural office there before turning to interiors, taking the postgraduate programme in Interior Design for Hotels and Gastronomy at ELISAVA in Barcelona and then returning to open her own studio in the region. Her work covers hospitality and gastronomy, private houses and retail spaces.

Each project starts from two questions, who the space is for and what the building around it looks like, and develops into an overall concept in which layout, materials, surfaces, daylight, artificial light and acoustics are coordinated as one thread. The architectural training shows in the layouts; the interiors are meant to give guests and residents a specific feeling on entering rather than to carry a recognisable signature.