The best interior designer websites in 2026, timed on a phone

The best interior designer websites let one photograph lead, name every project by its place, and open fast on a phone. In October 2026 we timed the home pages of twenty leading interior studios with Google's real-user data. Eleven show their first large picture in under 2.5 seconds for real visitors on a phone. These are the eleven, and what each does well.

Each time below is how long three in four real visits on a phone took to show the largest picture or text block on the home page. Google calls anything under 2.5 seconds good. We checked every site again by hand on 1 November 2026.

1. Axel Vervoordt, Antwerp: 0.83 seconds

axel-vervoordt.com¹

• The home page is one split screen: "Gallery" on a white half, "Antiquaire" on a dark half, each with its own photographs.
• The "Vision" page tells the company's fifty years, from 1969 in Antwerp, in pictures.
• The interiors page lists the books the studio has published, such as "Living with Light".

The fastest home page of the twenty, and one of the calmest.

2. Kelly Wearstler, Los Angeles: 1.56 seconds

kellywearstler.com²

• A full-screen film plays behind the wordmark, with one caption and "Discover More".
• Projects are grouped into Residential, Hotels, Restaurant & Bar and Retail, each with a named project.
• The menu stays short: Shop, Partnerships, Projects, About, Wearstlerworld, with a press page linked in the footer.

3. Rose Uniacke, London: 1.67 seconds

roseuniacke.com³

• The menu says what the house makes in five words: Shop, Fabric, Paint, Interiors, Editorial.
• The interiors page names each project, such as "San Vicente West Village" and "London Townhouse".
• An editorial section holds a film of the studio's Coach House project.

4. Joseph Dirand, Paris: 1.73 seconds

josephdirand.com⁴

• The home page is one photograph after another. On a computer, pointing at one shows only its name and usually a city: "Alboni, Paris", "Shun, New York", "Balenciaga, Tokyo".
• Thirty-six projects on one page, and a five-line menu: Réalisations, Mobilier, Informations, Contact, Propriété intellectuelle.

Nothing on the page competes with the rooms.

5. Studio KO, Paris: 1.80 seconds

studioko.fr⁵

• Projects are sorted by type, and every villa carries its place under its name: "villa h" over "casablanca", "villa b" over "porto vecchio".
• A publications page separates monographs, press, books and podcasts, dated to the month.
• The home page document itself is very light, about 21 KB, ahead of an intro film you can skip.

6. Dimore Studio, Milan: 1.82 seconds

dimorestudio.eu⁶

• The home page is one full-screen room, with the menu stacked down the left: Residential, Hospitality, Retail, Exhibitions, Press, About, Contact.
• The press page lists each magazine by month, from Architectural Digest to Vogue Living Australia.
• Project pages give the place and the size, such as a listed building on Eaton Square in London.

7. Beata Heuman, London: 1.89 seconds

beataheuman.com⁷

• The home page opens on a full-screen photograph of a room with striped walls.
• Press is quoted on the home page itself, from the Financial Times and Vogue Scandinavia.
• "How We Work" tells a client what to send to begin: a floor plan, photographs of the property and a budget where available.

8. Laura Gonzalez, Paris: 1.98 seconds

lauragonzalez.fr⁸

• The home page is a full-screen room with the name set over it, and the site is in French and English.
• Projects are grouped into hotels, residential, retail, restaurants and scenography.
• A project page such as Belmond Villa Timeo shows six pieces from the studio's furniture collection, with a link to the rest.

9. Commune Design, Los Angeles: 1.98 seconds

communedesign.com⁹

• The home page is split: the studio's four parts on the left (design, shop, home, post), one photograph on the right with its project named.
• A project page gives the place and year, "West Marin, CA, 2025", with a description and many photographs.

10. Vincenzo De Cotiis, Milan: 2.00 seconds

decotiis.it¹⁰

• Almost every architecture project is listed with its place and year: "Palazzo Salviati Venice 2026", "Palazzo Mazenta Milan 2024".
• The press page is dated to the month.
• Contact is split by purpose: gallery, architects, foundation, press and careers, each with its own address.

11. Pierre Yovanovitch, Paris: 2.11 seconds

pierreyovanovitch.com¹¹

• The home page is a carousel of whole rooms, each captioned with its name and its place, such as Château de Fabrègues in Provence and Roxbury in Connecticut.
• A project page gives the type, the year and the location, then lets dozens of photographs speak.
• The menu stays short: Projects, Mobilier, Galleries, About, E-Shop.

What the twenty have in common

When we looked at all twenty in October:

• 20 of 20 show their menu as words on a computer screen, not hidden behind a button.
• 16 of 20 link a furniture line, editions or a shop from the main menu.
• 13 of 20 have a press, awards or publications page.
• 5 of 20 have a main heading on the home page, the line that tells search engines what the page is about.
• 4 of 20 offer a second language.
• 0 of 20 show testimonials on the home page.

What can a studio learn from them?

1. Let one photograph lead. Dirand opens on a single room, with nothing written over it until you point at it.
2. Name every project by its place. Yovanovitch, Studio KO and De Cotiis all do. A client, a journalist and an AI assistant can quote a place. They cannot quote "Project 4".
3. Keep the press page dated. Dimore, Studio KO and De Cotiis list publications by month, so a visitor can see the studio is busy now.
4. Tell people how to begin. Beata Heuman says what to send. De Cotiis says whom to write to. Both take the guessing out of the first email.
5. Make it fast on a phone. Every site on this list shows its first large picture in under 2.5 seconds for real visitors. On a slower phone connection in our lab test, the typical home page of the twenty took 5.9 seconds. More in The Index.

How we measured

The times are Google's real-user data (the Chrome UX Report, read through PageSpeed Insights) for the home page on a phone: the moment the largest picture or text block appears, for three in four real visits, over the 28 days to 28 October 2026. The twenty studios are the ones in The Index, chosen in October 2026 as leading interior studios. This list shows the eleven whose home pages were under 2.5 seconds, Google's mark for good. We have no connection with any of them. The full method is on how The Index was measured.

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