Athens
Design education, early commercial work and first-hand experience as a long-term hospitality venue owner.
Founder-led · Internationally experienced
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INTERNIDESIGN is a Melbourne-based Commercial Interior Design studio working across Australia, led by Katerina Kapetania.
Bold creative direction, commercial intelligence and more than 25 years of international experience—brought together in one highly personal practice.
Katerina Kapetania
European elegance.
Commercial clarity.
Katerina is an internationally trained commercial Interior Designer with more than 25 years of experience across Athens, Milan and Melbourne.
Her foundation in Interior Design was followed by postgraduate design studies in Milan, including Interior Design and Retail + Spatial Experience. That combination shaped a way of working that is both expressive and disciplined: every space needs a strong idea, but it must also work for the business behind it.
Before establishing INTERNIDESIGN in Australia, Katerina also owned and operated her own hospitality venue in Athens for approximately 15 years, overseeing four renovations. That experience gave her a rare understanding of commercial interiors from both sides—as the designer and as the business owner living with the result.
Today, she remains personally involved in every INTERNIDESIGN project, leading the concept, spatial experience, material direction and key design decisions from the first conversation onward.
Designing the business—not simply the room.
Sapphirus Café Bar · Melbourne
International perspective
Athens. Milan.
Melbourne.
Milan
Postgraduate study refined an editorial European sensibility and a deeper understanding of retail and spatial experience.
Melbourne
A founder-led commercial practice designing hospitality, retail, workplace, wellness and branded environments.
Our point of view
Business first.
Concept second.
Decoration last.
Understand
We begin with the business model, customer, brand, operational flow, location and ambitions.
Define
We establish one clear creative direction capable of guiding every spatial and material decision.
Design
Planning, finishes, lighting, furniture and joinery become one coherent customer experience.
Deliver
Clear documentation and focused design review protect the concept as it moves toward construction.
25+Years of international design experience
3Design cities: Athens, Milan, Melbourne
1:1Principal-led creative direction
Work directly with the studio