Daniel Romualdez

Fashion brand empress and American billionaire Tory Burch shared to Tatler in 2018 that when she and Daniel were having dinner at her lavish Fifth Avenue apartment about 15 years before, the renowned architect and interior designer drew sketches on a napkin, creating a framework for the expansion they would be doing. Brilliant thoughts could not go amiss from Daniel’s mind, and this is just one of the many reasons why he is one of the most sought-after architects and interior designers in the US and Europe.

For several times, he and many of his designs would land on the cover of other premier publications such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Architectural Digest, of which he was included in its 2012 AD100 list of the world’s best interior designers and architects and again in 2014. Just recently, Phaidon Press’ By Design: The World’s Best Contemporary Interior Designers book included his work on a living room of a Los Angeles home in its 2021 list of the best living rooms in the world.

Born and raised in Metro Manila, he moved to New York to pursue studies at Yale and Columbia University. His signature style has always been defined with an ingenious usage of colour and vibrant prints, mixing them with antiques and mid-century furniture of classical style. This may have been influenced by his experience in working for renowned classicists Thierry Despont and Robert A.M. Stern, before he started his own company in 1993. His impeccable taste is evident in his wide range of projects like villas, condominiums, apartments, and even private jets and yachts.