Grant Filipoff, Associate Director, Bates Smart
Grant Filipoff is an Associate Director at Bates Smart and Principal Interior Designer with a passion to create environments in which to work, live, socialise and relax. With experience throughout Australia, Asia and the UK, his nuanced approach to design blurs the boundaries of traditional work, home and play spaces.
Working closely with conceptual architects, Grant’s skill in both the planning and integration of strong interior concepts has been used for many of Bates Smart’s projects. He collaborates with clients at the very inception of a project, ensuring a strong design direction is established from the beginning, developing a narrative for the ensuing project to follow.
Grant has been responsible for numerous premium projects, many of which have received award recognition, including The Fat Duck and Dinner by Heston in Melbourne and now Dubai, Crown Metropol, 171 Collins Street commercial building, Maddocks workplace and a new hotel in Bourke Street.
Bates Smart is a multidisciplinary design firm delivering architecture, interior design, urban design and strategic services across Australia, with a staff of over 250 in studios in Melbourne and Sydney. Bates Smart’s projects seek to transform the city fabric and the way people use and inhabit urban spaces and built environments.