Our Next in Design 2025 winner, Ananth Ramaswamy, hadn’t planned to become an interior designer, but after moving to the U.K. from Bangalore, the profession found him. ‘I thought I wanted to be an architect and went through the full grind of seven years of study, but it was interiors that I discovered I had a passion for,’ Ananth says.
His first job was at the architecture firm Michaelis Boyd, working on the design of apartments at Battersea Power Station, as well as décor projects for Doyle Collection hotels. That led to him founding Arall in 2022, where he took on private residential properties.
