We favour a timeless approach, where craftsmanship and painstaking design
determine the final result.
Our creative team includes designers drawn from a wide range of disciplines, countries and backgrounds — ensuring an unconventionally creative solution to every problem.
About
"Fundamental to our philosophy is that the designs should be simple enough to appear inevitable."
Every problem has numerous solutions hidden within it – our role is to look beyond the obvious, and to discover the most elegant way to turn problems into creative opportunities.
Creativity is the bedrock of good design; hard work is fundamental to solving the most intractable problems. Our commitment is to provide both with energy, enjoyment and enthusiasm.
Timeline
1996
Mike Rundell worked with Damien Hirst to create Pharmacy – a restaurant in West London that won numerous design awards.
1999
Rundell Associates was founded with a strong focus on arts-based projects of all kinds.
2000
Collaborated with leading art dealer Jay Jopling to create White Cube, Hoxton.
2006
White Cube, St James’s opened – the first new freestanding building in St James’s for 40 years.
2010
Opening of Arts Building at West Buckland School. The project won several RIBA and FRICS awards including a Gold Medal.
2017
Opening of the new Fine Watch Room in Harrods.
2020
Started work on a series of new-build houses in North Cornwall using the latest developments in Glu-Lam, CLT Passive House technology.
2024
Rundell Associates remains dedicated to delivering a diverse portfolio of architectural projects, including London residences, coastal homes, country estates, and artistic venues.
To discover our work in detail, we invite you to explore our website.
Pharmacy, Notting Hill Gate
White Cube Gallery, Mason’s Yard
Quarry House, Mawgan Porth
Mike Rundell
Mike Rundell's varied and unconventional career includes working in the Middle East for 5 years as an oilfield Engineer, working in Russia for a similar period and gaining a First Class degree in Fine Art to accompany his previous Masters in Economics and Engineering from Oxford University.
His Engineering background, combined with his degree in Fine Art, has allowed him to develop a highly personal and distinctive style that does not conform to any stylistic movement. These early influences have informed his later work — much of which has been carried out with art collectors, artists and their dealers.
We work in collaboration with clients so that their home becomes genuinely bespoke; the finished building reflects the client’s tastes and lifestyle, fused with our own creative input.
As such each is an extraordinary adventure, reflecting the uniqueness of each person’s ambitions for their own home.
Clients
- Adam Balon
- Adam Barker-Mill
- Adam Clayton
- Alex James
- Arnaud Massenet
- Charles Spencer
- Claudia Schiffer
- Damian Chunilal
- Damien Hirst
- Edward Spencer-Churchill
- Elisabeth Murdoch
- Emma Freud
- Gail Rebuck
- Giles Andreae
- Harland Miller
- Hugh Osmond
- Huw Jenkins
- Jay Jopling
- Kaveh Sheibani
- Keith Tyson
- Marc Newson
- Mark Levine
- Matthew Freud
- Matthew Vaughn
- Peter Jackson
- Phillipe Starck
- Richard Curtis
- Richard Reed
- Sam Taylor-Johnson
- Sebastian James
- Stella McCartney
- Tracey Emin
Team
Drawing on a wide range of backgrounds within the practice — where carpenters and stage designers work side by side with trained architects — we have built a practice with a strong team spirit, boundless creativity and exceptional dedication.
We bring a fresh, practical and meticulously detailed approach to each project, taking time to understand the client’s expectations, the nature of the setting and the opportunities, constraints and possibilities presented by the brief.
Bernadette Voce
- Eleni Gkotzaridi
- Gerda Jonkute
- Lynne De Palo
- Malek Pierre Arif
- Mike Rundell
- Oliver Archer
- Patrick Leonard
- Rebecca Ross
- Renée Die-Girbau
- Rio Burrage
Sam Rose
Sara Sadek
Sean McMahon
Tristan Stocker
Victoria Abel
