Ilse Crawford

Ilse Catherine Crawford (born 1962) is a British interior and furniture designer.

Early life and education Crawford was born in London in 1962 soon moving on to designing interiors and setting up her own design studio, StudioIlse, in London in 2001. She worked on the Soho House in collaboration with Harman Jablin Architects. While keeping the exterior and backbones of the 45,000-square-foot building, Crawford worked to redesign the warehouse into a funky club, with 24 hotel rooms, a restaurant, three bars, a private screening room and more. The Soho House was also featured on the television series Sex and the City.

Crawford was profiled in the first season of the Netflix documentary series Abstract: The Art of Design. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to design.

Books Crawford has published books including: Sensual Home: Liberate Your Senses and Change Your Life. Photographed by Martyn Thompson (1997, Quadrille publishing, ) Home is Where the Heart is? Photographed by Martyn Thompson (2009, Quadrille publishing, ) A Frame for Life: The Designs of StudioIlse (2014, Rizzoli International Publications, )