A note on this list. We are Pochē Aesthetics, a residential practice in New Delhi, and we are on this list. We have said so at the top rather than at the bottom, because a roundup that hides who wrote it is not worth reading. The practices below are ones whose work we know or whose reputation in Delhi NCR is well established. The order is not a ranking — we have not judged one firm better than another, and we would not be the right people to do so. We have kept the descriptions deliberately brief and factual, because the only reliable source on any firm is that firm’s own portfolio and its past clients. Please treat this as a starting point for your own research rather than as verified fact.
If you are looking for an interior design firm in Delhi NCR, the first problem is that a great many of the top results are directory pages and aggregated listings, where placement is often shaped by advertising rather than by the work. The order you see tells you less about design than it appears to.
This is an attempt at something more useful: ten practices doing serious residential work in Delhi NCR, grouped by the kind of firm they are — and, more importantly, how to tell them apart when you meet them.
How to read any list like this
Before the names, the part that actually matters. Whichever firm you shortlist, these are the things that separate a good commission from an expensive disappointment.
Ask to see a project of your type and size. A practice that has done twenty apartments may never have run a ground-up farmhouse, and the skills are not interchangeable. Photographs of a 6,000 sq ft villa tell you nothing about how they would handle your 1,800 sq ft flat.
Ask who will actually be on your project. In larger firms, the person who wins the work is rarely the person who runs it. Ask for the name of the project lead and how many other jobs they are carrying.
Ask to speak to a past client whose project finished two years ago — not two months. Problems with joinery, waterproofing and finishes surface in year two, not week six.
Ask what is not included. The gap between a design fee and the final spend is where most disputes begin. Get civil work, services coordination, site supervision, furniture and styling separated out in writing.
Ask how they charge. Percentage of project cost, fee per square foot, or fixed fee — each creates a different incentive. A percentage fee means the designer earns more when you spend more, which is worth understanding before you sign.
Ten practices working in Delhi NCR
These are not ranked. We have grouped them by the kind of firm they are, because that is the distinction that actually decides which one suits your project — and within each group they are listed alphabetically, so no position here means anything. We have put the residential practices first simply because most people reading this are commissioning a home rather than a large mixed-use project. The firms below range from small studios to offices of a hundred-plus, working at very different scales — ranking them against one another would be meaningless.
Architect-led residential practices
Practices built around homes and led by the architects who design them. You deal with the principal rather than an account manager, and the house is designed for you rather than adapted from a system. These are smaller offices by choice — fewer commissions at a time is the point — which also means they are not the place to take a tower or a mixed-use scheme.
Pochē Aesthetics
Us — so read this with that in mind, then go and judge the work rather than the description.
Pochē Aesthetics is an architecture and interior design practice in Greater Kailash, New Delhi, founded and led by architect Niyati Satsangi. We specialise in luxury residential — farmhouses, villas, builder floors and apartments across Delhi NCR — and take on a select number of restaurant and commercial commissions alongside it.
The thing we would actually point a client to is this: architecture and interiors are one commission here, not two. Most houses in this city are designed, built, and then handed to an interior designer who works around whatever the shell allows — window positions already fixed, beam depths already set, services already run. Every interior decision after that becomes a workaround, and workarounds are where budgets quietly go. Held together from the start, ceiling voids get sized for what will actually run through them, sills sit where the furniture wants them, and the staircase is designed rather than discovered.
The second thing is continuity. The person who takes your first call is the person who draws the house and the person on your site eighteen months later. There is no handover to a delivery team.
The third is scope. Plan, structure, materials, joinery, lighting, fabric, styling — resolved in one language, by one team. A house designed as a single thing reads as a single thing, and that coherence is usually what people are responding to when they cannot say why a room works.
We are not the right call if you need work starting next week, or if you are commissioning a tower. For a home you intend to live in for the next twenty years, we would like the conversation. See the projects, or how we structure a commission.
Purple Studio
A Delhi NCR practice working across architecture and interiors on residential projects. Worth including on a shortlist alongside the others here.
Shruti Sodhi Interior Designs
A Delhi NCR studio with a substantial residential portfolio alongside hospitality and commercial work. Worth reviewing if a layered, decorative approach appeals to you more than a pared-back one.
Established full-service and design-and-build firms
Larger teams carrying architecture and interiors together, often with their own execution capability. Suited to large projects where a single point of accountability across design and construction matters most.
ANSA Architecture & Interiors
A long-standing Delhi consultancy covering both architecture and interiors across residential and commercial work. A reasonable starting point if you want both disciplines under one roof from an established full-service office.
Essentia Environments
Founded in 1999 by Hardesh and Monica Chawla, Essentia operates at the top of the NCR residential market, with published work in Gurgaon developments including The Camellias, The Aralias and The Magnolias, and in branded residences. The model is end-to-end — design, architecture, build and bespoke furniture under one roof — which suits owners who want one party accountable for everything on a very large project.
Interia
A Delhi NCR firm working across Gurgaon, South Delhi and the wider region on residential interiors. Ask them directly about process and delivery timelines — that is the useful question to put to any firm.
K2India
The Delhi practice associated with Sunita Kohli, whose restoration work includes Rashtrapati Bhavan and Parliament House, and Kohelika Kohli. The firm works across residential, commercial and hospitality projects. Worth approaching if your brief leans towards classical language, heritage sensibility and material richness rather than minimalism.
Architecture-led multidisciplinary practices
Offices where architecture comes first and interiors follow from it. The right call for a ground-up house, a difficult site, or anything where the building itself is the project. Their residential work usually sits alongside large public, commercial and hospitality commissions.
Architecture Discipline
A New Delhi multidisciplinary practice founded in 2007 by Akshat Bhatt, working across residences, interiors, workspaces, retail, hospitality and larger public assignments, in a contemporary and detail-driven architectural language.
Morphogenesis
Founded in 1996 by Manit and Sonali Rastogi, Morphogenesis is among the most internationally recognised architecture practices to have come out of India, with offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Pune. The work spans large public and commercial projects alongside private residences, and the practice is particularly associated with research-led, climate-responsive design. If your project is a substantial ground-up house and you want an architecture-first office with deep technical resources, this is that tier.
Studio Lotus
Established in 2002 by Ambrish Arora, Ankur Choksi and Sidhartha Talwar, Studio Lotus is a New Delhi multidisciplinary practice widely published for hospitality, adaptive reuse, retail and institutional work alongside residential projects, with a strong material and craft sensibility. Worth approaching if you want a conceptually ambitious house and are comfortable commissioning a practice whose portfolio reaches well beyond homes.
What this list deliberately leaves out
There are many excellent practices in Delhi NCR that are not here — small studios doing beautiful work with no marketing presence, and large firms we simply do not know well enough to describe fairly. Ten is an arbitrary number. Absence from this list means nothing at all.
We have also left out the online platforms and aggregator services, not because they are poor — they do a genuinely useful job at certain budgets and for standardised fit-outs — but because they work to a different model from an independent practice. Both are legitimate. It is simply worth knowing which of the two you are buying, and asking each of them the same questions.
Matching the firm to the project
Ground-up house or farmhouse. You need architecture, not decoration. Look for a practice with built work you can visit, and check they have handled approvals in your jurisdiction — Delhi, Gurgaon and Noida each have their own rules.
Apartment or builder floor. The constraint is the existing structure and services. Ask specifically about experience working within a fixed shell, and about coordinating with an RWA or building management, which is often the hardest part.
Renovation of an occupied home. Phasing and dust control matter as much as design. Ask how they have handled a family living on site.
Styling only. If the bones are already good, you may need a styling engagement rather than a full commission — a much smaller scope and a much smaller fee.
A final thought
The firm that produced the portfolio you like best is not automatically the right firm for you. Fit matters more: whether they listen, whether they tell you when something will not work, and whether you would be comfortable having them in your house for the next eighteen months.
Meet three. Ask the questions above. The differences will become obvious quickly.
If you would like to talk to us about a project, tell us about it — and if we are not the right fit, we will say so. You can also read our longer guide to choosing a design firm, or see how we structure a commission.
About Pochē Aesthetics
Pochē Aesthetics is a luxury residential architecture and interior design practice based in Greater Kailash, New Delhi, founded by architect Niyati Satsangi. We specialise in luxury residential — farmhouses, villas, builder floors and apartments across Delhi NCR and India — handling architecture, interiors, materials, lighting and styling as one connected commission, and take on select restaurant and commercial work alongside it. More about the practice.