An Interior Design Firm in Thailand, Founded in Bangkok in 2015
Gratitude Design is an interior design firm in Thailand — an interior architecture and design studio founded in Bangkok in 2015 by Angkoon Choeiiam and Warakorn Termwattanapakdee. The studio designs residential, hospitality, restaurant and bar, workplace, retail, and clinic and wellness interiors across Thailand and Asia, and delivers most of them turn-key — one team responsible from the first sketch to opening day.
How the studio designs
The work is best described as tailored luxury: quiet rather than loud, built on material, proportion and light rather than decoration. Every project starts from how the space will actually be used on an ordinary day, and the studio’s detailing — joinery, bespoke furniture, lighting — carries the concept through to the finished room. It is why the same practice can move between a family penthouse and a nightclub without either feeling like a compromise.
Awards and recognition
Since 2022 the work has been recognised with twenty-six international awards across six building types, and the studio has been named three times in the Luxury Lifestyle Awards Top 100 Interior Designers of the World. The full record — and what we think it actually tells a client — is on Awards & Press.
The founders
Angkoon Choeiiam
Managing Director / Co-Founder
Angkoon leads the practice side of the studio: the client relationship, the budget, the programme, and the promise that what was drawn is what gets built. He co-founded Gratitude Design in 2015 on the conviction that a design studio should be accountable for the finished space, not just the drawings — the reason most of the studio’s work is delivered turn-key, at an agreed price and date.
His measure of a finished project is deliberately unglamorous: the design has to hold up in daily use, years after the photography. Whether the commission is a family home, a clinic or a nightclub, he holds the work to the same two standards — quiet luxury in the material and the light, and a space the client recognises as made for them rather than for the studio’s portfolio.
Warakorn Termwattanapakdee
Design Director / Co-Founder
Warakorn — Give, to clients and colleagues — leads the design of every project in the studio. Her work begins in the details most people never consciously register: the radius of a counter edge, the temperature of light on stone, the way a texture reads at arm’s length rather than in a photograph. The detail is always in service of atmosphere — rooms that feel resolved without announcing why.
She carries a concept from the first sketch to the final styling so that nothing is lost in between, and moves between building types with the same discipline — residences, restaurants, bars, retail and wellness. Clients tend to remember the process as enjoyable; contractors remember the drawings as precise.
Working with an interior design firm in Thailand
Choosing an interior design firm in Thailand usually comes down to two questions: can the studio hold a concept all the way to the finished room, and will it still be there when the contractor has questions on site. Gratitude Design was built to answer both. A design commission leaves with a documentation set complete enough for any competent builder to price and construct. A turn-key commission stays with us — one contract, one programme, one point of accountability from the first sketch to opening day.
The studio works across Bangkok and beyond it — Thonglor, Sathorn, Ramintra, Bangkae — and out to the River Kwai valley in Kanchanaburi, with projects in Laos, Cambodia, India, South Korea and London. Recognition has followed the work rather than the other way round: twenty-six international awards since 2022, and three appearances in the Luxury Lifestyle Awards Top 100 Interior Designers of the World. The portfolio is the fastest way to judge whether the sensibility suits your project, the services page sets out how a commission runs, and the awards and press page lists the record in full. A first conversation costs nothing.