Radhika is an Interior Designer with experience in hospitality, residential, and workplace projects. She’s delivered over 15 restaurant and bar projects from initial sketch to champagne-filled opening ceremony.
Radhika brings an attention to detail and love of storytelling into her designs. Her restaurant and residential projects have been featured in leading architecture magazines, such as Commercial Design India and World Architecture Community.
Radhika, What’s your favourite project you’ve worked on to date?
Tough one. Hospitality taught me how to obsess over atmosphere and detail, but I’m currently loving workplace projects. They’re a bit like puzzles. How do you make a space functional, flexible, and still inspiring on a Monday morning?
What does inclusion mean to you?
It means designing spaces where everyone feels welcome. From a client walking into a pitch meeting, to a team member grabbing a coffee break. If you can walk into a space and think, “this was made with me in mind,” that’s inclusion done right.
Biggest life/career/cultural influences?
Believe it or not: a square watermelon. As a teenager I read about Japan’s cube-shaped melons designed to fit in tiny fridges. That clever, empathetic design solution made me think: “I want to do this!” Fast forward — I studied in Japan, Singapore, and the UK, collecting cultural quirks and design lessons along the way.
What advice would you give your 20-year-old self?
Trust your instincts. And don’t panic when AutoCAD crashes, it always comes back (eventually).
Where do you see your career taking you?
Continuing to design meaningful, human-focused environments whether that’s an office that fuels collaboration, a wellness space that calms the mind, or a social hub that brings people together. Basically, anywhere design can make everyday life a little better. And if the skilled worker visa doesn’t come through, well… you might just find me back in India, shaking cocktails behind the bar of one of the restaurants I once designed.
