About me

Caroline Cumberbatch has spent over thirty years in interior design, including notable projects like the living quarters at Davis Station, Antarctica. Her doctoral research fundamentally shifted her understanding of what interior design can achieve, revealing how spaces can foster authentic relationships between people and between people and their material environment.

Through hands-on experimentation, Caroline discovered that authentic beauty cannot exist alongside waste, disrespect, or disconnection from our material world. Working collaboratively with craftspeople, conventional manufacturers, and researchers from other disciplines, including engineering, she explores how different approaches to making can create connections and materiality simply not available through conventional manufacturing alone.

Caroline works with clients ready to think differently about interior design. While recognising that our systems are built around conventional manufacturing, her practice explores the profound possibilities emerging through thoughtful reuse and alternative approaches to making.