Iain Watson, 50, worked with the celebrated architect David Collins from the mid-1980s. Lifetime collaborators, they started work in Collins’s living room, but shortly after decided to launch David Collins Studio. Together they worked on iconic interior design projects such as the Wolseley and Nobu hotels in London, and Ritz-Carlton Residences in Bangkok. Watson took the helm ofthe business after Collins died in 2013.
The studio’s recent projects include the Gleneagles five-star hotel in Scotland; 1010 Park Avenue, a luxury condominium development in New York; a collaboration with the luxury furniture and textile company Baker; and overhauling the Superbrands department at Harrods.
Watson lives in a two-storey flat in a Victorian conversion.
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