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House of Dré
A.Hackney Downs Studios
Heartspace 06
17 Amhurst Terrace
Lower Clapton
London, E8 2BT
IG.@houseofdre._
House of Dré is an award winning interior design studio established in 2020 by Andreas Christodoulou, the founder and creative director. Andreas brings his architectural education into a diverse range of disciplines, from interior design and sculpture to furniture and industrial design.
House of Dré’s design philosophy centres on the idea that different spaces draw out different aspects of who we are. People do not behave the same way in a pub as they do in a cocktail bar, and that distinction is never accidental. Interiors hold the power to shape not only how people feel but also how they see themselves. At their best, they allow individuals to feel, if only briefly, more like themselves, or more importantly, more like the version of themselves they aspire to be.
Based within the East London creative hub of Hackney Downs Studios, the practice works from a converted warehouse space surrounded by a vibrant community of creatives, including fashion designers, graphic designers, illustrators, painters and sculptors. Many of these individuals have collaborated with House of Dré and continue to do so, reinforcing the studio’s identity as part of a wider creative network.
Creative Director
House of Dré is an award winning interior design studio established in 2020 by Andreas Christodoulou, the founder and creative director. Andreas brings his architectural education into a diverse range of disciplines, from interior design and sculpture to furniture and industrial design.
Since graduating in 2015, he has gained over a decade of experience working at award winning interior design and architecture studios, contributing to both residential and hospitality projects. His career has given him extensive first hand experience across every stage of the design process, from concept and detailing through to construction and completion, knowledge that underpins the work of House of Dré today.
His artworks have been exhibited in galleries, restaurants and hotels in and around London. As a multidisciplinary creative, he believes that by creating an overlap between art and design, new and culturally relevant works can emerge. These projects are formed through collaborations with a network of talented figures in art, design and craft. Maintaining strong relationships with other creatives is central to House of Dré, where collaboration is considered the studio’s lifeblood.
Andreas graduated from Westminster Architecture School’s legendary Design Studio 16, a place where students were encouraged to merge traditional crafts with contemporary fabrication techniques. Much of this exploration took place at Guan Lee’s renowned Grymsdyke Farm workshop, which became a home from home for students from London’s top design schools. There, they would spend months at a time developing projects collaboratively, blurring the boundaries between art, design and fabrication. This spirit of hands-on experimentation continues to shape both Andreas’s professional practice and the design ethos of House of Dré.
Andreas has since returned to Westminster, teaching on the MA programme and regularly joining as a guest critic for the MArch Architecture Masters.
Sketchbook
In recent years, sketching has come to feel like an optional part of the contemporary designer’s toolkit –something nostalgic rather than necessary. Yet for us, it remains one of the most valuable ways to both think and communicate.
When we sketch, we aren’t simply illustrating an idea; we’re exploring it. The act of drawing gives shape to thoughts that might otherwise remain abstract. It slows the mind just enough to allow new possibilities to surface.
A sketchbook, in this sense, is more than a collection of drawings – it’s an external memory, a visual record of questions, experiments, and moments of clarity. It holds the evolution of a project in a way no software ever could.
Technology has undoubtedly changed how we design, but it hasn’t replaced the immediacy or intimacy of the hand-drawing. There’s a quiet honesty to it which reminds us why we began designing in the first place.
Craft
Collaboration is the studio’s lifeblood, enabling the exchange of knowledge between designers and artists in both directions. The studio has built close relationships with a growing network of artisans and makers. Each project is shaped by dozens of collaborations with craftspeople whose work captures the spirit of place. Their contributions bring a human quality to interiors that cannot be achieved in any other way. House of Dré has deep experience in providing a platform for artists and makers, translating their skills into designs that enrich and elevate the spaces created.
Design Ethos
The concept of Dré is used as a design tool: it embodies the feeling of sitting within a beautiful space and the confidence and playfulness that experience evokes. Dré is not a person but a facet of the self, fun, playful and experimental. House of Dré designs spaces for that side of people, offering moments of respite from everyday life and encouraging them to indulge in aspects of themselves that rarely find expression.
Art
The studio has built close relationships with a growing network of artisans and makers across the UK. Each project is shaped by dozens of collaborations with craftspeople whose work captures the spirit of place. Their contributions bring a human quality to interiors that cannot be achieved in any other way. House of Dré has deep experience in providing a platform for artists and makers, translating their skills into designs that enrich and elevate the spaces created.