Services
Commercial and hospitality interior design, from concept to completed site.
Studio Arcibella is a Helsinki-based interior architecture practice working across hotels, restaurants, bars, retail and workplace environments. We combine design thinking with business understanding, so a commercial interior is judged not only on how it looks but on how it performs — culturally, experientially and economically — over time.
Commercial interior design
Interiors that carry a business, not just a look.
Commercial interior design covers every space where an interior has to earn its keep: guest-facing rooms, retail floors, workplaces, staff areas and back-of-house. We plan programme, capacity and operating logic alongside the visual concept, and we document the result properly so contractors build what was designed.
Hospitality interiors
Hotels, restaurants, bars, spas and congress venues. The guest journey is designed first and the plan follows, because in hospitality the interior is the product.
Retail & flagship spaces
Boutiques and showrooms where sightlines, lighting and material contrast do the selling. Layouts are planned around browsing rhythm, stock logic and staff flow.
Workplace & meeting environments
Offices, meeting studios, member clubs and staff areas designed for concentration, acoustics and daylight — and for the way the organisation actually works.
Public & cultural interiors
Interiors in listed and historically layered buildings, where new work has to sit respectfully next to protected architecture and still belong to its own time.
Hospitality interior design
Hotels, restaurants and spas designed around the guest journey.
Hospitality is the core of our practice. Rather than applying an external theme, we build the identity from the history, materiality and culture already present in the building — the approach behind Clarion Hotel Mestari, its restaurant and event space and Långvik Wellness and Congress Center. The commission typically extends far beyond guest-facing rooms: meeting facilities, staff areas, kitchens, spa and the lighting concept inside and out.
Hospitality interior design in detailDisciplines
What we take responsibility for
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Concept design
The story before the plan. We define the idea a space is built on — its reference world, material temperature and emotional register — so every later decision has something to answer to.
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Interior architecture
Full spatial design from plan to detail: circulation, daylight, acoustics, materials, joinery and lighting, coordinated with the architectural and engineering teams.
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Spatial strategy
Brief-setting, positioning and use-case analysis that connect design intent to commercial performance — programme, capacity, dwell time and long-term asset value.
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Lighting & custom fittings
Lighting as part of the architecture, including bespoke luminaires produced with Finnish manufacturers when the standard catalogue cannot carry the concept.
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Carpets & bespoke textiles
Hand-woven and custom-manufactured carpets designed for the room they belong to, from private commissions to hotel-scale specification. See our carpet design work.
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Private residences
Homes, saunas and private wellness spaces designed with the same rigour as public interiors: calm plans, honest materials and lighting that follows the rhythm of the day.
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Execution support
Tender documentation, supplier selection, site supervision and FF&E coordination, so the built result holds the standard set at concept stage.
Process
How a project runs
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Brief & positioning
Market, user profile, operator requirements and the commercial case for the concept.
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Concept design
Story, reference world, material palette and the lighting register of the property.
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Interior architecture
Plans, circulation, joinery, materials and custom fittings, coordinated with the wider team.
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Execution
Tender documents, supplier selection, FF&E coordination and supervision on site.
Track record
Over thirty years of practice across Europe, with a background in interior architecture from Milan (IED) and an MBA from Aalto University. That combination is why our work moves fluently between concept, strategy and execution.
We have consistently read rising directions early and translated them into interiors that stay relevant long after the trend that suggested them has passed. Read more about the studio or see where our work has been published.
Planning a commercial or hospitality interior?
Tell us about the property, the users and the timeline. We will come back with an honest view of the opportunity and how we would approach it.