James White

Spear’s Review

British designers Elliot March and James White are best known for outfitting superyachts, but more recently they have been busy recreating an ‘authentic New York vibe’ inside Renzo Piano Building Workshop’s first condo in Manhattan and designing interiors for The Row skyscraper in Chicago.

March and White founded MAWD in 2010, and the firm now has offices in London, New York and Los Angeles. Both have strong architectural backgrounds which, says White, ‘brings both logic and objectivity to [the] process ... We create interiors in the same way we approach artistic endeavours. We create an idea and concept, select a palette and then add layering with pattern and texture.’