Format by Metz — Interior Design
Art-led interior.
We leave a space on every wall before we've drawn a single room — because the room gets built around what hangs there, not the other way around.
We leave a space on every wall before we've drawn a single room — because the room gets built around what hangs there, not the other way around.
This is not a painting hung to match a sofa. It is the principle that a collection can dictate the DNA of a home — where art is never an afterthought, but the foundation furniture, layout, lighting, and colour are drawn from.
Visual storytelling leads, without asking daily life to compromise. The expressive language of the work and the functional needs of the home fold into one seamless, elevated whole — not two things reconciled, but one thing, designed once.
When artworks across different rooms speak through shared tone, texture, or contrast, a red thread emerges. The home stops being a series of rooms and becomes one fluid, curated narrative.
A good piece never finishes revealing itself. The detail that catches your eye today isn't the one you'll notice next spring, or after a hard day, or the hundredth time you walk past it. The art doesn't change — you do — and that's what keeps a room from ever feeling finished.
With the artwork setting the spatial framework, practical decisions sharpen. Every piece of furniture supports both daily life and visual balance — clutter has nowhere left to gather.
Interior trends fade; a personal collection endures. Design that follows the art is freed from fashion, and carries a deeper, lasting soul.
If your business or company benefits from a beautiful and impressive headquarters or office, you do not necessarily need to invest big in a new location. We have a professional art handler assigned who will make the artworks and lighting outstanding. You will have the chance to see your space with different artists and only choose when there is the right match.
A room built around a single extraordinary piece reads differently than one simply furnished to fill space. It reads considered. It reads finished — and a home that feels finished, rather than merely decorated, is the one people remember after they've stopped looking at the art itself.
Exclusivity is rarely manufactured with more. It comes from the right piece, in the right place, given room to be seen. That kind of impression doesn't fade when the room is empty of people — it's what stays with whoever walked through it.
No two collections are alike, which means no two homes built around one are either. A floor plan can be copied down the street; a room shaped by a real piece of art cannot — and that difference is exactly what people struggle to put into words when they walk through a door and it simply feels like somewhere.
Two identical layouts, curated differently, stop being comparable at all. The conversation moves from square meters to something no spreadsheet can price.
Long after a visit, it's rarely the tile or the trim anyone recalls first — it's the piece on the wall, and the room built to hold it.
Renovations age the moment they're finished. A home shaped around real work only deepens — it has somewhere left to go.
Art chosen to match the sofa.
The space is shaped to let the art speak first.
Every scheme is planned around Kelvin, not just lumens. Colour temperature is calibrated room by room so each piece reads true, and the home still feels like somewhere to live in, not a gallery to walk through.
When you start with the art, you don't just furnish a home — you curate the backdrop of a life. What results is exclusive by nature, and never quite finished, like any good collection.
Trained at the AA School of Architecture in London. Format by Metz works from an ongoing portfolio of Danish artists — the same names that anchor the homes we design.
We keep a gallery apartment — rooms built purely to show what art does to a space. You are always welcome to come see it, and feel it, in person.
