About
There's a particular quality to a well-considered space. You feel it before you name it — the light lands right, the room breathes, you want to stay.
The alternative is spaces that are too modern, too cold; spaces that lack character and personality.
Studio Wallis exists to change that.
Studio Wallis
Studio Wallis is an Amsterdam-based design studio. The premise is simple: beauty and function aren't opposites — a space that works properly is a beautiful space. A well-designed home isn't a luxury; it's a foundation for rest, for connection, for the version of yourself you most want to be.
Most people live in spaces that quietly work against them — light that doesn't land right, a flow that adds friction to every morning, rooms that function but feel like nothing in particular. They've lowered the bar until they stopped noticing. But a home that's been properly thought about changes the texture of a day. The morning is easier. The evening lands better. People linger.
That's what good design actually does. It's what every Studio Wallis project is built toward.
When beauty and function come together, human quality of life improves.
Sarah
Sarah Wallis Frankle has been making things since she was old enough to hold a brush. At six, she sold her drawings at the coffee house down the street so she could afford to bring a friend to ceramics class. That instinct — to create, to figure it out, to make something real — never left. It showed up in the theatre costume department in college, in the elaborate themed parties she threw (always with activities, always with a spreadsheet), in the murals painted on bedroom walls and the rooms designed outward from a feeling.
Through ten years of software engineering she built systems, untangled complexity, found the elegant solution where others saw only constraints. The instincts that made clean code laid the foundation for elevated rooms.
She works with people who have a sense of how they want their home to feel, but aren't sure how to get there. Her job is to translate that feeling into something real — all the way down to which drawer you'll actually use and where you'll want a hook when you walk in.
As an expat herself, she knows how much it matters to have one place that feels completely, unmistakably yours.
Wallis is a family name — her mother and grandmother, two women for whom a well-tended home was an act of love. The studio carries that forward.