"My classical music training enables me to create beautiful, timeless, and harmonious spaces." - Raisa.
Raisa Taft is an interior and architectural designer with over twenty years of experience designing, building, and remodeling residential homes. She has worked on projects in San Mateo, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Woodside, and Pebble Beach.
She started her life in Moscow, Russia, and grew up surrounded by European and Russian art and architecture and developed a passion for it.
Her early career was as a classical pianist at an extremely young age, after which she taught for a decade before moving to interior design.
She worked on four of her homes in the Bay Area and Monterey Peninsula from start to finish before deciding to go back to school and study interior design professionally. She earned a degree and certificate in Interior Design and Kitchen and Bathroom Design. She is a member of ASID and NKBA.