Colette van den Thillart has a long-established reputation in the international world of interior design. After obtaining an AAS Interior Design degree, she moved to London, England to complete a master's degree in Decorative Arts at London’s Wallace Collection. During this time, she met the legendary Nicky Haslam of NH Design. After nearly fifteen years as Creative Director of his studio, Colette returned to Canada and founded her own interior design firm. She currently resides between Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles.  

Colette is known for creating spaces that feel both deeply personal and richly layered with history. The Studio approaches each project with a highly tailored individualized brief. An impressive portfolio honed over twenty-five years features projects in London, Toronto, New York, Miami, Barbados, Ireland, and St. Jean-Cap-Ferrat, to name a few. Her work expresses a confident maturity of taste and scale for her international clientele as seen in Architectural Digest, Canadian House and Home, Veranda, World of Interiors, and other cosmopolitan magazines.  

A sought-after public speaker, having lectured at LCDQ Los Angeles, Chelsea Harbour in London, Decorex UK, and numerous ARIDO engagements. Her work has been featured on CBC Television in a segment titled ‘Interior Designer to the Stars’. Colette holds ‘Residential Gold’ and ‘Loft Conversion Gold’ awards from ARIDO for work done in Canada and is an alumnus of the Attingham Trust. 

Behind the Design

  • Colette van den Thillart

    Colette van den Thillart

    PRINCIPAL DESIGNER

  • Rory Flint

    SENIOR DESIGNER

  • Sarah Glynn

    SENIOR DESIGNER

  • Nolan Bryant

    COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR
    &
    DECORATOR

  • Nanci Traynor

    PROCUREMENT
    &
    LOGISTICS MANAGER

  • Jen Walker

    JUNIOR DESIGNER

  • Taylor O'Driscoll

    JUNIOR DESIGNER

A beautiful collection created in collaboration with Nicky Haslam.

The “Random Harvest” collection is the result of a lifetime spent looking, noticing, and registering surroundings. Nicky and I possess a curious, enquiring eye; we are not interested in the obvious or mundane. As interior designers, we are always on the lookout for the romantic, the rare, and the ravishing, which has become the theme of the “Random Harvest” collection. It is contemporary yet timeless, with designs and colours that subtly interrelate.

The designs hark from various parts of the world. Nicky first saw “Greenbrier” as a pattern on a Spode plate in the dim of a tiny antique shop in North Carolina. “Balcony Stripe” was inspired by the shadow of a balustrade in New Orleans, and “Zephyr” by the memory of braid down a toy monkeys trousers. “Mid-day Lace” was originally a Tippex doodle on a scrap of linen, and a real grotto we had made to feed into a swimming pool gave the name to “Grotto”. Thus, “Random Harvest” is exactly that; a distillation of designs and colours we have loved over the years.