Sophie Dries.

Sophie Dries is a Paris- and Milan-based architect and designer working across interior architecture, collectible design, furniture, scenography and material research. Her practice sits between French decorative-arts culture, Italian collectible design and a contemporary architectural interest in matter, place, craft and historical continuity.

Dries graduated from ENSA Paris-Malaquais and Aalto University in Helsinki, and also trained in contemporary art at École du Louvre. Before founding her own studio, she worked with Jean Nouvel, Pierre Yovanovitch and Christian Liaigre. She established her Paris studio in 2014 and opened a Milan address in 2017, giving the practice a dual base between decorative-arts heritage and contemporary design culture.

Her work has been presented at Salone del Mobile, PAD London, Collectible Brussels and The Salon Art + Design in New York, with numbered editions and gallery projects connected to Nilufar, Giustini/Stagetti and L'Éclaireur. Recent projects include Ceysson & Bénétière Gallery in Ginza, Tokyo, a 325-square-metre gallery conceived as the gallery's first Asian space, and private collector interiors in Paris.

Dries' public profile has grown through repeated AD100 recognition, inclusion in est living's Esteemed 10 in 2025, and the entry of her work into the permanent collections of the Mobilier National in France. In 2025 she created Octa Bar for the Mobilier National, a contemporary boudoir bar made for the centenary of the 1925 International Exhibition of Decorative Arts and developed with specialist houses and ateliers including Baccarat, Lemarié-Lognon, Rémy Garnier, Duvelleroy, Misia / Issé, Lison de Caunes and Mycoworks.

For Project Materia, Dries brings high craft, architectural precision and contemporary material research. Her work approaches material as cultural language: shaped by context, transformed by skilled hands, and held between heritage and experimentation.