Bespoke Interiors · Edmonton, Canada

Where the streamlined meets the organic

Interiors, furniture, millwork and lighting — conceived as one vision and brought to life by hand, with a circle of master artisans.

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Est. two decades of craft Custom · Handmade · Curated By private consultation

A Considered Practice

The most memorable rooms are not decorated.
They are composed — layer by layer, by hand.

Shantam Interiors is a design atelier, not a volume studio. Each commission receives the direct attention of its founder, from the first architectural drawing to the placement of the final object.

The Craft

The hand behind every detail

What distinguishes a fine interior is what cannot be bought from a catalogue: a dining table cut from a single slab, millwork drawn for one wall and no other, a light fixture forged for the room it illuminates.

This is the heart of my practice. I design and commission custom features, furniture, millwork and lighting — pieces where clean, streamlined form meets the warmth of organic material and the evidence of the human hand.

I.Custom furniture, designed and made for its room
II.Architectural millwork & bespoke joinery
III.Lighting conceived as sculpture
IV.Original art, textiles & curated objects
Custom curated objects and artisan craft

Commissions

A small number of projects, given everything

I accept a limited number of commissions each year, so that every project receives the depth of attention it deserves.

Lake House great room — bespoke residence by Shantam Interiors

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Bespoke Residences & New Builds

A home shaped from the first line of the architectural plan. Working alongside your architect and builder, I bring the interior vision forward from the earliest stage — space, proportion, light, material, millwork and furnishing developing as one continuous thought.

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Complete Transformations

The reinvention of an existing residence — design, construction, trades, sourcing and finishing carried under one steady hand. Because I am a builder as well as a designer, the vision survives contact with the site, intact and often improved.

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Custom walnut millwork with curated objects by Shantam Interiors

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Custom Furniture, Millwork & Lighting

The signature of the atelier. One-of-a-kind pieces designed for a specific room and made in collaboration with master woodworkers, metalworkers and fabricators — furniture, built-ins, architectural details and lighting that exist nowhere else.

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Original painting from The Face of Meaning series by Etienne Grossi

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Art, Objects & Private Curation

As a practicing artist, I help clients acquire, commission and place original works — paintings, textiles, ceramics and objects with provenance and meaning. The final layer of a home, and often the most personal.

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Amour Jewellers boutique interior with custom display casework by Shantam Interiors

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Hospitality & Select Commercial

For establishments where atmosphere is the brand — boutique retail, restaurants, galleries, private offices — and for developers and builders seeking a consistent design hand across show suites or multiple units.

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Lake House great room — double-height living and dining space by Shantam Interiors

Bespoke Residences

Lake House

Amour Jewellers — custom display wall and pendant lighting by Shantam Interiors

Hospitality & Select Commercial

Amour Jewellers

The Atelier

A circle of artisans, gathered over twenty years

No single hand can master every material. Over two decades I have built lasting collaborations with some of the finest makers in the region — each piece passing through hands that have given a lifetime to their craft.

Hand-fitted walnut herringbone detailWoodworkers
Metalworker at the forgeMetalworkers
Furniture maker's workbenchFurniture Makers
Textile artist at workTextile Artists
Upholsterer's detail workUpholsterers
Ceramicist's table settingCeramicists

Philosophy

Inner–Out Design

A beautiful room that does not fit its owner is merely a photograph. My work begins with the person — how you live, what is changing, what the space must make possible — and develops outward into architecture, material and object.

It is why no two Shantam interiors resemble each other. They resemble their owners.

A quiet evening on the deck of the Lake House, fire lit, water still
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Observe

Understanding you, your environment, and how you wish to feel within it.

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Identify the friction

Finding what creates discomfort, noise, or disconnection.

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Clear

Determining what must be released, repaired, or reconsidered.

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Compose

Planning the space around movement, function, and daily life.

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Layer

Material, light, colour, furniture, art and object — introduced with care.

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Belong

A completed environment that supports new rituals and ways of living.

Etienne Grossi, founder of Shantam Interiors

The Founder

Etienne Grossi

Artist by nature. Designer by practice. Builder at heart.

For more than two decades, my work has spanned bespoke residences, new builds, penthouses, restaurants, galleries and private commissions — in Edmonton, across the United States, and in Europe. I am entirely self-taught — as a painter since childhood, as an interior designer, and as a jewelry maker — developing my own techniques through twenty years spent living between Spain, Italy, France, England, Australia, Brazil and the United States: New York, San Francisco, Hawaii.

Where a vision calls for a hand I don’t have myself, I collaborate with the artists and artisans best suited to realize it. That life, more than any school, shaped how I see material, proportion and beauty — and why I insist on the handmade in an age of the mass-produced.

Because I understand both design and construction, I move fluently between the grand vision and the smallest joint of a cabinet door. Nothing is delegated into vagueness.

I approach a space the way a shell forms a pearl — through layers, refinement, and care over time.
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In Their Words

“Etienne understood what I was trying to create and brought it to life in a way I could not have imagined on my own. He transformed the house into a beautiful and heartfelt home.”

Private Client · Residence
Etienne Grossi on the cover of Avenue Magazine, February 2016

Press & Recognition

Featured on the cover of Avenue Magazine

“Fab 4 — Designers Show Off Their Standout Projects,” February 2016.

Also selected by Houzz among “40 Incredible Hallways to Take You From One World to Another” — the Penthouse entrance featured as No. 7 in the international collection, representing Canada.

Avenue Edmonton The Edmonton Journal Houzz Modern Luxuria LUXlife Best in Edmonton
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The Invitation

Begin with a private consultation

Every commission begins the same way: a conversation. Tell me about your residence or your plans, what is changing in your life, and what you would like your environment to make possible. From there, we determine whether we are the right fit for one another.

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Telephone(780) 903-3552
Correspondenceinfo@shantaminteriors.com
AtelierEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
ServingEdmonton & surrounding regions ·
Select commissions across North America & Europe