Luxury Residential Design by Pallavi Dean

OUT IN THE WORLD, EVERYONE GETS A VERSION OF YOU.

Your home should get the real one.

Discover Lair

Personal by design.

Lair is Pallavi Dean’s private residential design studio. We take on a small number of homes each year, and each one has Pallavi’s direct authorship and close involvement.

For us, this work is personal, because what we create has to feel personal to you.

How we work
Mirrored timber-lined spiral portals framing a silhouetted figure.
Custom Dinning Table Area

Your habits become a habitat.

We don’t start with style. We start by watching how you live: what you are drawn to, what you keep close, where you linger.

Your rituals become rooms.

“Not just functional. Not just beautiful. Yours.”

From vision to detail.

Your whole home, from its architecture and landscape to the smallest detail inside.

Architecture and Landscape

Architecture and landscape designed together, so the house sits in its setting and light reaches the rooms where you spend your day.

Interior Design

Interiors shaped around your everyday life, your rituals and the things you keep close, with materials and details that are yours alone.

Design Supervision & Procurement

We supervise the work on site and check every finish, piece of furniture and fitting, so the home is built as it was imagined.

An intimate, creative vision.

Lair is led personally by Pallavi Dean and Kathryn Athreya. Pallavi leads the creative direction, and Kathryn makes sure every step of the client experience is as personal as the home itself, from first conversation to final handover.

Pallavi Dean and Kathryn Athreya, LAIR studio leadership

The Lair collection:

Explore a selection of private homes we have designed, each shaped around its owners.

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Recognition behind the vision.

Selected honours awarded to Pallavi Dean.

Outstanding Contribution Award

Commercial Interior Design Awards

2026

Designer of the Year

Commercial Interior Design Awards

2022

Designer of the Year

Interior Design Magazine

2021

Designer of the Year

Architecture Digest

2020