Interior designer Tanya Nikolic

I'm Tanya

I graduated as an economist and spent enough years in business to learn how to think strategically. Interior design began as a hobby, with my first clients in Moscow, where I worked on renovations, and became my full-time profession once I made it official at the KLC School of Design in London. For many years I worked with clients in Cyprus. A life lived between Belgrade, Moscow, Greece, London, Switzerland and Cyprus finally brought me to Montenegro, where ruins and stone were waiting for me to take care of them.

Every project begins with a conversation, and I let it lead. I listen to the client, and I listen to the space, to its light, its walls and its silences, and I let them tell me where we are going and how far. A stone wall that has stood for a century has opinions, and so does a person who has finally decided what they want. My work is the dialogue between the two: East with West, old with new, a striking colour beside a quiet one, an antique beside a modern piece, until the room sounds like the people who live in it.

I graduated as an economist and spent enough years in business to learn how to think strategically. Interior design began as a hobby, with my first clients in Moscow, where I worked on renovations, and became my full-time profession once I made it official at the KLC School of Design in London. For many years I worked with clients in Cyprus. A life lived between Belgrade, Moscow, Greece, London, Switzerland and Cyprus finally brought me to Montenegro, where ruins and stone were waiting for me to take care of them.

Every project begins with a conversation, and I let it lead. I listen to the client, and I listen to the space, to its light, its walls and its silences, and I let them tell me where we are going and how far. A stone wall that has stood for a century has opinions, and so does a person who has finally decided what they want. My work is the dialogue between the two: East with West, old with new, a striking colour beside a quiet one, an antique beside a modern piece, until the room sounds like the people who live in it.