Interior Design Studio
ABOUT US
Our Studio
Studio Gail Alexander is a full-service Scottish design studio specialising in refurbishing, decorating, and furnishing residential properties, period homes, and boutique commercial spaces across Scotland and beyond.
Our work is rooted in Scottish architecture with a global sensibility. Thoughtfully honouring the architecture of your space, while supporting the realities of modern life, enduring the decades, and becoming more beautiful with time.
Every project begins with you. Before making a single design decision, we take the time to understand how you live, what brings you joy, and how you want your home to feel at the end of a long day. We work collaboratively with each client to ensure we design a home that feels unique and deeply personal.
We collaborate with you, your architect, and your contractor, guiding you through every decision, from materials and architectural details to furniture, fabrics, and custom pieces, so your home feels unique and deeply personal. We explore every detail, ensuring each element is considered and well-designed for your day-to-day life. We effortlessly mix antiques and vintage finds with contemporary pieces, layering natural materials, textures, and bespoke details to transform houses into homes that feel elevated, inviting, collected, and refined.
Our services meet you wherever you are in your design journey, from focused guidance on a single room to full-service support for a complete renovation or furnishing project.
DESIGN ETHOS
Warm | Natural Materials | Refined | Lived-in | Collected
WHO ARE WE
Our Team
Gail Alexander
FOUNDER, INTERIOR DESIGNER
Gail built her career in London and Sydney, working with global fashion and lifestyle brands across campaigns, branding, retail design, customer experience, and creative direction. Designing stores, shaping brand identities, and creating environments people wanted to spend time in gave her a deep understanding of how thoughtful design influences how we live, shop, and connect.
Alongside her career, travel became an equally important education. Time spent exploring and shooting campaigns in cities such as Paris, Florence, and Copenhagen, together with years living in London and Sydney, exposed her to very different approaches to architecture, craftsmanship, and interiors. Whether it was the quiet simplicity of Scandinavian design, the timeless elegance of European apartments, or the relaxed beauty of Australian homes, each place reinforced the same belief: the best interiors are never dictated by trends. They evolve slowly, tell a story, and feel entirely authentic to the people who live in them.
Growing up between Victorian homes in Glasgow, old Scottish farmhouses, coastal cottages on Arran, and weekends spent in a historic castle, Gail developed an instinctive appreciation for buildings with history and character. She was drawn to worn stone and oak floors, handmade furniture, soft natural textures, and rooms that felt collected rather than decorated.
After studying at KLC School of Design in London, Gail established her own studio, bringing together her background in branding, retail environments, and interior design. Today, she creates warm, timeless homes and commercial spaces throughout the UK that balance beauty with practicality, combining natural materials, considered colour, vintage pieces, and contemporary craftsmanship to create spaces that feel refined, calm, and luxurious.
Every project begins by getting to know you, understanding how you want to live, and what changes we need to make to your home to make it feel like you. We love creating homes and spaces that feel intuitive, effortless, and enduring – that become more beautiful with time and unmistakably belong to the people or brands who inhabit them.
Photo Developing
Anna Vogel McManus
INTERIOR DESIGNER
Growing up in Sweden, Anna developed an instinctive eye for interiors where colour, craftsmanship, and family history exist effortlessly side-by-side. Homes layered with inherited antiques, vibrant textiles, and iconic Scandinavian design taught her that beautiful spaces should feel lived in, collected over time, and full of personality.
After building a successful fashion brand, Anna developed an exceptional understanding of colour, proportion, fabric, and craftsmanship—skills that naturally led her to retrain in Interior Design in Stockholm. Her fashion background still shapes every project, giving her an intuitive ability to combine textures, patterns, and materials in ways that feel confident, unexpected, and beautifully balanced.
Based in Glasgow, Anna brings a distinctly Scandinavian perspective to every home she designs. Her own Victorian townhouse, featured in Homes & Interiors Scotland, perfectly reflects her aesthetic: a joyful mix of Svenskt Tenn fabrics, Sandberg wallpapers, vintage finds, family heirlooms, and contemporary Scandinavian classics. It is colourful without feeling busy, playful without losing sophistication, and layered with the warmth that comes from surrounding yourself with pieces you genuinely love.
Anna has an extraordinary talent for the finishing layers that transform a house into a home. From sourcing characterful antiques and original artwork to selecting fabrics, lighting, and decorative objects, she creates interiors that feel individual, expressive, and unique.
Warm, energetic, and refreshing to work with, Anna encourages clients to be braver with colour, embrace pattern, and create homes that reflect who they are rather than what’s currently trending. The result is interiors that feel inviting, joyful, and impossible to mistake for anyone else’s.
