Commercial
We work on select commercial projects with clients willing to go the extra mile—creating environments that go beyond functionality to offer rich, sensory spatial experiences. Our projects focus on atmosphere, tactility, and experience—designed through an intimate process and and a residential approach.
Retail
Most commerce today happens online, leaving physical retailers with both the challenge and the opportunity to reinvent themselves around experiences that only bricks-and-mortar spaces can offer. Like a well-designed website, a physical store must embody a brand’s values and underline the aspirations it seeks to evoke.
The digital marketplace still cannot provide an experience catering to all senses. Retail today needs to be immersive: a place where people engage with and learn about a brand itself, rather than simply browsing products. Mood and atmosphere become essential tools in communicating how a brand wants to be perceived.
We believe the future of retail is not an optimised sales process—online shopping already excels at convenience. The future of retail is storytelling. Stores are increasingly part of a brand’s public-facing narrative, functioning as cultural and emotional touchpoints rather than being solely transactional.
People won’t be shopping for products, but for ideas and aspirations. They seek context, education, and engagement—spaces that explain not just what a product is, but why it is made. Customers want their questions answered and their decisions informed, in order to engage and connect long term.
We translate a brand’s core values and aspirational identity into spatial concepts. Through lighting and materiality, furnishings and fabrics, art and objects, we create environments that emody a brand’s ideals and foster meaningful connections with its audience.
Office
The role of the office needs to be redefined. As remote work has become established, companies are now faced with a new challenge: creating workplaces that people want to return to. Interior design has become an important tool in this shift. Much like hotels elevate the idea of a holiday by offering a refined home away from home, contemporary offices must provide an environment that goes beyond basic functionality.
A successful office today offers the comfort employees know from home—while adding layers of care and quality that often cannot be replicated in a domestic setting. Well-considered workplaces balance focused, private areas that allow for deep work and discretion with more social and recreational spaces: informal, welcoming, and conducive to exchange.
Equally important are shared facilities and services that enhance daily routines—amenities that support collaboration, wellbeing, and productivity. These elements transform the office from an obligation into a destination, reinforcing its relevance in a flexible working culture.
Office design is also a powerful expression of brand identity. The workplace communicates a company’s values, ambitions, and attitude—both to its employees and to guests and partners. Layout, material choices, lighting, and detailing all shape how a business is perceived and experienced. A thoughtfully designed office strengthens identification with the brand, fosters a sense of belonging, and reflects the standards a company sets for itself.
We design offices as holistic environments where architecture, interior design, and brand identity converge. By translating a company’s culture and aspirations into spatial concepts, we create workplaces that feel intentional, human, and compelling—places that support focus and collaboration, and that employees cherish and want to return to.
Hotels
Hotels are many things at once, yet also deliberately focused. They are condensed living environments, offering a clearly defined experience within a limited timeframe. At their core, hotels must prioritise comfort. Regardless of category or budget, a well-designed hotel offers the highest level of comfort its framework allows—even where functionality may be the primary driver. Naturally, this becomes more expansive higher up the ladder.
What fundamentally distinguishes hotels from private homes is the temporary nature of the stay. Guests arrive open to new impressions, willing to engage with ideas and aesthetics they might not choose for themselves long-term, but that form part of the narrative of a destination. A hotel can therefore be singular and expressive—an experience taken to its logical extreme.
Hotels must belong to the places they inhabit. They should grow out of their surroundings and reflect local life with nuance and restraint—evoking context without becoming literal or stereotypical. When travelling, we seek to live within a destination, to experience it through atmosphere, materiality, and detail. Spaces that feel placeless—interiors that could exist anywhere—fail to resonate. The surroundings must inform the interior, allowing architecture, landscape, and design to merge into a coherent whole.
Leisure hotels in particular must go beyond comfort. They need to charm, surprise, and support a sense of retreat. Interior design plays a central role in guests’ wellbeing: lighting must respond to different moments of the day, furniture should be both tactile and specific to place, and colour palettes should emerge naturally from the environment. A strong connection to the outdoors is essential—offering openness and orientation, while providing shelter and calm.
Designing hotels is not about reinventing the wheel. It is about understanding which experiences the host wishes to offer, what kind of life the hotel enables, and how these ideas can be amplified through space. We translate these intentions into carefully considered environments that feel authentic, grounded, and memorable.
Get in touch
Email us at hello@tinnappelmetz.com or fill in the form below for any inquiries. If you are looking to discuss a new project, the first meeting is complimentary. We’ll talk ideas and goals and establish a possible collaboration.