Cindy Adem
Principal Designer, Habitué Design House

Cindy is not your typical designer. With a background in technology and a lifelong practice as an artist, she designs for something more intentional: the human moments that happen inside a space.
Before a single piece is sourced, she is already imagining the guest who will arrive tired from a long flight, the couple having their first morning coffee, the executive who needs the room to feel like a reset. She builds for those moments. The result is spaces that feel less like they were decorated, and more like they were written.
Her aesthetic is shaped by years of travel across India, South Africa, the Americas and beyond. She hand-picks pieces from those journeys, commissions custom work when nothing off the shelf will do, and holds every decision to a standard that goes beyond beauty: does this serve the person who will live inside it?
To deliver that, Cindy works with a hand-selected team of contractors, designers and architects, each chosen for their ability to meet not just the client's expectations, but her own.
Nothing is filler
Every object, finish and fixture is chosen with intention. We don't fill rooms, we compose them.
Designed for the person inside it
Every decision traces back to the human moment it is designed to serve.
Delivered beyond expectation
The goal is never to meet expectations. It is to exceed them.