Meet the interior designers on the 2026 MattoBoard Designer List. Discover the trends they’re loving, the ones they’re leaving behind, and the tips and tricks shaping how they use MattoBoard in their everyday workflows.
Professional designers rarely work in exactly the same way. Different projects, clients and creative processes call for different tools, but more designers are using MattoBoard to make the journey from early idea to resolved scheme faster, clearer and more visual.
For this year’s MattoBoard Designer List, we invited designers from around the world to show us how MattoBoard fits into their real design process. From refining material palettes and sourcing products to building 3D boards and presenting concepts to clients, each designer uses the platform in their own way.
Meet the designers to know and follow in 2026, and see how they’re using MattoBoard to bring their ideas to life:
Leicester, UK
Simran Kotecha is the founder of Simran Design, a commercial interior design studio based in Leicester and working across the UK and internationally. She started the studio at 22 with a background in textiles and a belief that businesses deserve spaces that perform for years, both creatively and commercially.
Her style? Warm, considered and commercially led, balancing timeless materiality with the practical demands of real working spaces. Her studio works across showrooms, clinics, salons, offices, hospitality, education and wellness spaces, delivering projects from concept to completion.
Simran is currently loving fluted warm-neutral wood for the rhythm, softness and quiet sense of luxury it can bring to a commercial space. Her favorite recent trend? The shift away from cool grey towards warm, earthy and tactile palettes, using natural browns, greens and terracottas to make spaces feel more human.
The look she would leave behind? Cold, all-grey interiors with polished chrome. For Simran, warmth and a varied coloor palette are what make a space stay interesting for years.
Coming from a textile design background, MattoBoard helps her build and refine material palettes with a realism she can trust, keeping projects organised and making it easier to communicate full concepts to clients, especially when working remotely.
Discover how Simran uses MattoBoard.
Instagram: @simrankotecha
Website: simrandesign.co.uk
Wellington, New Zealand
Nhi Tu is a designer and illustrator with a Bachelor of Design in Spatial Design from Massey University. Currently working as an interior design assistant, she is gaining hands-on experience across residential projects while continuing to develop her digital illustration practice.
Her work combines interiors, mood boards and architectural renders, with a focus on thoughtful, visually engaging spaces that tell a story. Her design style is inspired by mid-century modern design, with rich timber tones, earthy palettes, layered textures, organic forms and nature-led spaces.
Nhi is currently loving natural stone as a feature element, especially when bold veining or subtle movement continues from benchtop to splashback. Her favorite recent trend? Color drenching for the immersive and cohesive feeling it can bring to a room.
The trend she would leave behind? Perfectly matching furniture sets. A space feels more personal when pieces share a design language but vary in material, shape or finish.
MattoBoard has helped streamline her design process, making it quicker and easier to experiment with colors, fabrics, finishes and real, sourceable materials.
Discover how Nhi uses MattoBoard.
Instagram: @nhitu_design
Website: nhitudesign.com
Miami, Florida
Aya Chehadeh is the founder and designer behind Layout Lab Interiors, a Miami-based studio specialising in commercial, hospitality and retail interiors. With a background in both architecture and interior design, Aya approaches projects through spatial planning, materiality and visual storytelling.
Her style? Organized maximalism, creating spaces that reflect personality, character and individuality. Her work balances expressive detail with structure, making each space feel distinctive while still being carefully resolved.
Aya is currently loving tadelakt plaster and is drawn to warm, layered interiors that mix natural materials, sculptural forms and vintage or collected pieces. The trend she is moving away from is the overly curated silver and black look, making spaces feel too controlled and lacking in warmth.
MattoBoard helped Aya make the design process easier by allowing her to visually refine a cohesive material palette before moving further into the design.
Discover how Aya uses MattoBoard.
Instagram: @layoutlabinteriors
West London
Meg Collis is a West London-based interior designer with seven years of experience across design studios in London and Brighton, working on hospitality, commercial and residential projects.
For Meg, good design is about more than aesthetics. She is drawn to the meaning and concept behind a space, and how that idea shapes every decision within it. She is also passionate about sustainability and the history behind the materials we use, with a particular interest in emerging sustainable materials and brands.
Her style? Adaptable - responding to the brief, architecture and client’s needs. Right now, she is loving Zellige tiles, and her favorite recent trend is color drenching. Happy to leave behind: Inspirational quote artwork.
For Meg, MattoBoard’s 3D material library and mood board creator is a useful way to cut down time during the sourcing process and present boards to clients digitally.
Instagram: @meg.collis
Dubai, UAE
Sara Dadarkar is the founder and principal designer of The Interior Collective, a Dubai-based studio focused on creating warm, refined spaces that balance minimalism with character.
Her work spans residential, commercial and retail projects, with a focus on timeless layouts, layered textures and carefully selected materials. Her style? Warm, moody minimalism, rooted in timeless materials, thoughtful functionality and quiet luxury.
Sara is currently loving wood finishes paired with richly veined natural stone, and is drawn to moody, layered, lived-in interiors that feel personal rather than perfectly styled. The trend she would move away from: the overuse of fluted panels and trend-led interiors that lack longevity.
For Sara, MattoBoard made it easy to develop, source and present a complete concept in one organised workspace, making the design process more efficient from start to finish.
Discover how Sara uses MattoBoard.
Instagram: @theinterior.collective
Sydney, Australia
Valeria is a Sydney-based interior decorator and content creator with a passion for colorful homes.
At the beginning of her professional interiors career, she shares her decorating journey online, offering practical styling ideas and a behind-the-scenes look at the process of shaping her own apartment.
Her style? Colorful, eclectic and personal, mixing different influences to create spaces with character. She is currently loving velvet and is drawn to oversized paper lanterns, a trend that brings softness, scale and a playful sculptural quality into a room.
Her least favorite design direction? Minimalism - which makes sense for someone whose work leans into color, personality and experimentation.
Using MattoBoard helped Valeria visualize her ideas and turn them into a polished mood board, making the early concept stage feel more complete and considered.
See how Valeria uses MattoBoard.
Instagram: @valeriahomey
Barcelona, Spain
Sarah Starrk is the Barcelona-based interior designer and content creator behind Sarah Starrk Interiors. Known for her modern glam signature, Sarah creates interiors that feel polished, refined and calm, with a strong sense of detail and a focus on how a space should feel long after trends have moved on.
Her style? Sleek lines, statement pieces, luxe materials and a considered touch of shine. Right now, she is drawn to dark Emperador marble paired with brushed brass and deep walnut wood, a combination that brings both drama and warmth.
Sarah is especially interested in the return of statement pieces, from sculptural furniture to bold lighting and rich metallics used like jewellery in a room. The trend she would leave behind? Disposable, low-quality fast furniture that rarely lasts and takes away from the considered feel of a space.
For Sarah, MattoBoard is particularly useful when working remotely. It helps her visualize textures and see the finished direction without needing every physical sample in front of her.
Discover how Sarah uses MattoBoard.
Instagram: @sarah.starrk
Mumbai, India
Suprabha Bhandi is co-founder of IN3ior.Designs, a Mumbai-based interior design studio led by three partners and known for quiet, personality-led interiors. Her work is rooted in the belief that a space should feel like the person who lives in it, not like a copy of a trend.
She is drawn to detail over drama: hand-finished brass, veined marble, considered hardware and ceiling work that rewards a second look. Alongside her studio work, Suprabha shares her design process and point of view with a growing online community, translating high-end interiors into approachable, relatable content.
Her design style? Creating spaces that feel personal before you even notice the furniture. Right now, she is loving richly veined marbles like Bidasar Brown and Forest Green, paired with warm brass detailing. She also loves mixing multiple materials in one space, seeing that layering as the thing that brings real character to a room.
Her favorite recent trend? The return of curves, balanced with stronger structure, clean lines and small details like sculptural lighting, curved corners, hardware moments and long, flowing curtains. The trend she would leave behind is all-white interiors with no personality.
For Suprabha, MattoBoard turned hours of material selection into minutes, giving her one space to move from concept to 3D visualization without the usual back and forth.
Discover how Suprabha uses MattoBoard
Instagram: @suprabha.bhandi
Biarritz, France
Éloïse Bergerou is a home designer based in Biarritz in the French Basque Country. Her love of interiors started with a fascination for old houses, historic details and the character that comes with spaces that have evolved over time.
Her style? Bringing together old and new, pairing simple forms with vintage furniture, substantial materials and the occasional kitsch wallpaper. She is drawn to interiors that feel collected rather than overly polished, with a sense of history balanced by more contemporary elements.
Éloïse is currently loving the return of glass blocks as room dividers, particularly for the way they can separate spaces while still allowing light to pass through. One element she never tires of is a large wool rug, bringing softness, texture and warmth to a room. The trend she would happily leave behind? The heavy use of metal across kitchen cabinetry and furniture.
For Éloïse, MattoBoard is a simple way to save time while exploring ideas, helping her experiment more freely and giving her creativity more room to develop throughout the design process.
See how Éloïse uses MattoBoard.
Instagram: @eloisebinterior
Across every designer in this list, there is a different style, location and way of working. What connects them is a shared focus on turning ideas into something clearer and more considered.
MattoBoard helps support that process by bringing visual concepts, real materials, product sourcing, 3D material boards and presentation tools into one workflow. For some designers, that means refining a material palette. For others, it means working remotely, testing colors and textures, presenting more clearly to clients or moving faster from inspiration to specification.
The MattoBoard Designer List is a celebration of those different creative processes, and their process of using MattoBoard to make their work more visual, sourceable and client-ready.
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