About Laura Karasinski

With a practice spanning over 15 years, Laura Karasinski moves fluently between disciplines, creating highly personal and atmospheric spaces that connect history and identity with a sense of whimsy.

She has been recognised by Architectural Digest’s AD100 (2024, 2025), FORBES 30 under 30 (2016) and has been awarded the Woman Of The Year Award in Vienna (2015).

Born in 1990 in Austria to Polish immigrant parents, she grew up on construction sites between sketchbooks and scaffolding—a childhood marked by the smell of cement and conversations about geometry and belonging. While her early experience was shaped through observation and instinct, she later studied at the renowned University of Applied Arts in Vienna, further sharpening her visual language and conceptual foundation.

A great idea is valuable, but it must be more than that: it must make sense. Laura’s background in branding and advertising continues to inform her work. Storytelling is always present, whether designing an interior, a brand, or a curated experience. Her photographic memory and sensitivity to materials mean everything she sees and touches inevitably informs the next thing she makes. In that sense, her oeuvre is autobiographical—an ongoing translation of impressions, places and feelings shaped into form.

She has lectured at the New Design University in Austria and serves as an ambassador for integration initiatives with the Austrian Federal Ministry. A keen public speaker, she likes to share her experience & insights with audiences across the design, academic and cultural fields.

About the Atelier

Founded in 2012, Atelier Karasinski is a Viennese design bureau working at the intersection of interiors, identity and storytelling. Neither architects nor artists, we are designers with a strong focus on crafting thoughtful and achievable concepts that seamlessly weave into life, brands, or businesses.

We only curate a selected number of projects per year to guarantee every project is handled with the utmost care it deserves. Every project is infused with our full expertise, shaped by years of experience, collaboration, and a profound understanding of design, spirit, and identity.

Where our own expertise reaches its limits, we rely on a trusted circle of specialists, from art historians or architects to highly skilled craftspeople, many of whom we’ve worked with for over 13 years.

Alongside private residential commissions, our clients include the likes of Yves Saint Laurent, Universal Music Group, LVMH and Campari.

Read about our work in Architectural Digest, Elle Decoration or Vogue.

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