Meet Our Next in Design Winners: Susan Chesney Interiors

A side-by-side composition featuring designer Susan Chesney sitting on a blue velvet sofa, next to a sunlit living room with a modern fireplace and rustic wood accents.

Next in Design 2025 winner, Susan Chesney has always designed with people, not objects, in mind. Long before she founded her interiors studio in 2022, she was the child who instinctively reshaped her surroundings. Later came psychology and sociology at university – subjects she chose because she was fascinated by how people behave and connect. Looking back now, she can see the dots connect: she designs homes by reading between the lines of how people really want to live.

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