About
Vani Sayeed Studios is an award-winning collective of interior décor/design, interior architecture, fine art and product design based in Newton, Massachusetts. For over a decade, it has created masterfully beautiful spaces for residential and commercial clients on America’s East and West Coasts, as well as in India.
Vani Sayeed is the firm’s principal; her inspiration comes from a deeply creative sensibility. A committed and full-time artist herself, Vani’s love of an incredibly diverse spectrum of global art and architecture helps to inform her design aesthetic. She is fascinated by the possibility of both honoring classic artistic traditions and a need to embrace novelty.
Vani Sayeed obtained her Bachelor of Fine Art degree in Interior Design at the prestigious J.J. School of Art in Mumbai, where she spent the first two years in rigorous fine art training. She completed her Master of Fine Art degree on scholarship at the University of Iowa. Vani’s work as an artist has won numerous prizes. As a design professional, she is a member of the Design Leadership Network and Institute of Classical Architecture and Art. Vani is recognized as one of the greater Boston area’s top interior designers.
Her interior design work has won multiple awards and she has been featured in Elle Décor, House Beautiful, New England Home, Cottages and Bungalows, Modern Luxury Interiors Boston, Boston Home, Boston Globe etc.

AWARDS
Clarke – Wolfe, Sub-Zero
2nd Place for Transitional Kitchen Design
Baldwin Design Council
2015 to 2017 and 2017 to 2019
PRISM Awards
Best Design of Living Area, Private
Residence – Bath, 2022
Best Interior Design Private
Residence/Bedroom/Bath, 2022
Best Interior Design Specialty Space
2021
Best Design of a Private Residence
Living/Dining Room 2018, 2017, 2016
Best Design of a Private Residence
Bathroom 2019, 2017, 2016
Best Design of a Private Residence
Kitchen 2021, 2019, 2015
Best Design of a Private Residence
Bedroom 2017, 2016
Best Design of a Private Residence
Living/Dining Room 2015, 2014
IFDA-NE
Design Showcase Award
Best Traditional Dining Room 2022
Design Showcase Award
Best Living Space Design 2017
ROBERN Brand Ambassador
2015 – 2022
Best of Houzz Service
2021, 2018, 2017, 2016
Best of Houzz Design
2022, 2018, 2016
Newton Art Association
Bonnar Show 2017, 3rd Prize
Mollie L. and Henry Shoenberg
Prize, 2014
Arsenal Center Exhibit
3rd Prize, 2013
New Art Center Exhibit
Honorable Mention, 2013

