Background
David Collins was born in Dublin, Ireland on March 1, 1955.
David Collins was born in Dublin, Ireland on March 1, 1955.
He studied architecture at the Bolton Street School of Architecture in Dublin.
He established the David Collins Studio, an interior design firm based in London, in 1985. One of his first interior designs was chef Pierre Koffmann"s Louisiana Tante Claire in Chelsea. He then designed chef Marco Pierre White"s Harvey"s in 1988.
Later, he designed The Gilbert Scott, chef Marcus Wareing"s restaurant at the Street Pancras Renaissance Hotel.
Another Wareing restaurant that he designed was the Blue Bar in Belgravia. He went on to design The Wolseley, the Delaunay Hotel, J Sheekey, Brasserie Zédel, Colbert, Gordon Ramsay at Royal Hospital Road, and Nobu Berkeley Saint He also designed retail interiors for Jimmy Choo, Alexander McQueen and Harrods.
Additionally, he designed The Charles, an apartment building on the Upper East Side in New York City. Death
Collins died in London on July 17, 2013 from melanoma only three weeks after being diagnosed.
A book that Collins had been working on was published posthumously in May 2014 - ABCDCS:David Collins Studio, Assouline.
