The designer
Doina
Curchi.
Interior Designer and Architect. Artist. A career built across continents on a single conviction — that the most powerful rooms are felt before they are seen. Based in Los Angeles. Working worldwide.
Doina Curchi · Los Angeles
The story
She grew up between two worlds and has been reconciling them ever since — the precision of European craft and the openness of the American West Coast.
At eighteen, she arrived in California and found what she hadn't expected: space, light, and the freedom to design both the interior and the architecture that holds it. She learned the industry from the ground up — material selection at Manelli, furniture systems at Smart Office, and eventually the full complexity of luxury hospitality at Dreamers and Doers Design Studio, where a resort engagement in St. Kitts became the defining project of her career. An MBA sits alongside her design qualifications, because a beautifully designed space is also a significant financial decision — and her clients deserve someone who takes both seriously.
Work & experience
Where the work
has been done.
Ten years across hospitality, commercial, and residential interior design — built on the understanding that trust is earned through the quality of what gets built, not what gets promised.
Present
Interior Designer & Business Manager
Dreamers & Doers Design Studio · Los Angeles
Leads high-end hospitality and residential projects from concept through delivery, including a full-scale resort engagement in St. Kitts, Caribbean — hotel rooms, villas, and landscape, from space planning and construction drawings through 3D renders, FF&E, and specification sheets. Owns client relationships and design direction across every active project.
Hospitality · Residential · International2016
Interior Designer
Smart Office Interiors · Los Angeles
Planned and specified commercial interiors — floor plans, electrical plans, renderings, and proposals developed in AutoCAD — with direct client relationships and independent project management.
Commercial · Office & Communal Spaces2015
Design Assistant
Manelli Tile & Design · Los Angeles
Assisted senior designers with layouts, material selection, and vendor relations — building the trade-sourcing knowledge that underpins her FF&E practice today.
Materials · Trade Sourcing · Client RelationsEducation
Master of Business Administration
Southern California State University
2018 — 2020
Bachelor of Arts — Interior Design & Interior Architecture
Bellevue College
2015 — 2017
Bachelor of Business Administration
Southern California State University
2016 — 2017
Associate of Arts — Interior Design & Liberal Arts
Santa Barbara City College
2011 — 2015
Technical capabilities
3D & Visualisation
Technical Drawing
Design & Production
Specialisms
"I don't design rooms. I design the way a room makes you feel when you walk into it for the first time — and the ten thousandth time."
Doina Curchi · Doina DesignPresence without performance. The work doesn't announce itself — it changes the room, and you notice before you can explain why.
Every material chosen for how it ages. Every proportion considered for how it reads in ten years, not ten minutes.
One direction, not three options. The work of deciding has already happened — which is what a client is paying for.
The right designer is someone whose judgment you trust before a single decision is made.
If the work feels right, reach out. A fifteen-minute conversation is enough to know whether this is the right fit — for both sides.
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