Hugo Toro: Meet The Architect-Narrator

Hugo Toro is an architect and interior designer, originally from the east of France with dual nationality, Mexican and French. He holds a double Master’s degree, in Los Angeles and Vienna. He graduated valedictorian from the Penninghen School in Paris. At 33, this hyperactive jack-of-all-trades already has some great achievements to his credit: the restaurants Gigi Ramatuelle or Gigi Paris, but also the Booking Office at St Pancras station in London, to name just a few recent examples. From an early age, he liked to build, invent, and care about the details and equipment of the cabins he imagined.

Since a young age, Hugo Toro has absorbed much of the beauty that surrounds him. A way of life for this Franco-Mexican architect and decorator who has found a real medium in his many disciplines. Architect, interior designer, and a bit of an artist, that’s how Hugo introduces himself. The French architect is the eccentric founder of an agency whose style can be described as “diverse, endless, and eclectic”.

This exceptional decorator runs his own studio which employs around twenty people and works on restaurants in Paris, London, Dubai, Rome, and Cannes, hotels in the Paris region, private homes, and estates. Hugo Toro has always been sensitive and interested in the beautiful, but more so in his own world, in objects, and in various structures. Every year, his mother and he would repaint and refinish the furniture in the house.

Drawing and painting served as an escape. They enabled him to develop his own way of expressing himself and to find the right language to express his sometimes fragmented and incomplete view of the world around him. Painting and installation are significant to the artist. He is inspired by Richard Long, Cy Twombly’s passion and gesture vocabulary, and Gerhard Richter’s precision and ambiguity.

Hugo Toro’s dedication has landed him on AD’s Top 100 Interior Designers list, the most prestigious list among interior designers.