"How those who design every day live" is a series of short interviews with interior designers who open the doors to their apartments and homes, showing what daily life is like in the space they designed. In today's episode, the founders of the Furora studio show their apartment. -Diana Żurek and Bartosz "Gutek" Girek, more widely known as "Jesus of design".
The living room with kitchenette is full of simple, overlapping solids -,
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1 What does the interior look like where you live?
It is a space that balances between touches drawn from the Bauhaus and Japan. A lot of raw elements appear here including a concrete floor, some metal and glass, but the whole is broken by warm walnut wood and light-diffusing fabrics. Undoubtedly important are also strong colors, which in a cool warm palette complement the emptiness of the space - sometimes it's a large block, sometimes only color accents of furniture or smaller paintings. The apartment itself is several rooms including a home studio, which are dressed in bright tones, broken by various forms that we associate with travel :)
"The icing on the cake" of the living area are the black and white painting behind the sofa and the carpet on the floor -,
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2.What were the main assumptions and inspirations in its creation? Where did the concept come from?
We wanted to create a spacious place, despite the not so large area (70 square meters). We tried to make the space "meander " with each other - what are the treatments for, such as a high passageway with a continuation of wood on the wall, a mirror in the hallway, or a closet development in the dressing room jumping onto the wall. Actually, in every room we find these characteristic horizontal stripes, used in different ways. As I mentioned the whole thing is memories of several places that undoubtedly seduced us. Japanese lightness, Danish sparkle and modernist simplicity.
Wassily armchairs designed by Marcel Breuer -,
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3. which elements of the interior are of particular importance - aesthetic or functional?
I think, among others, are the two tables. Both the one in the kitchen and living room area and the office area. These are the spaces at which we live every day, around which we most often revolve both alone and with our loved ones. In the living area, a strong wooden table, in addition to the visual aspect (it complements the cool materials), is really living wood that has seen more than one stain. In the study, the coolness and cleanliness of the glass top is very conducive to concentration, and gives plenty of space to work. Aesthetically, several pieces including the closet in the bedroom, which we look at every day while falling asleep draws a calm clean pattern, and its backlighting adds soft light in the evening.
cornflower-colored kitchen -,
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4. Have you consciously used solutions beyond the current trends?
I think our apartment is quite timeless and not based on specific trends, rather it is a mix of different elements that we liked over the years, and finally we were able to combine them into a whole.
A sizable wooden kitchen table surrounded by stylish SAGE chairs by Polish brand The Good Living -,
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5How does this interior change over time?
For the time being, we remain in balance, with no changes, well, except maybe a few stained surfaces;)
the central office area is occupied by a large table with a glass top with rounded corners -,
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6 - Is there anything without which this interior would not be "yours"?
It's hard to talk about a specific element here, rather I would mention a sense of lightness and transparency.
Bathroom decorated with a contemporary interpretation of wainscoting -,
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7. what is the most important advice to give to a person who wants to create an interior close to himself - but is not a designer?
If we are not sure about something, we like it so 70 percent, but we don't know if we feel it ourselves, it should be a sign that it is better to let go and find another solution. It's important to review various other spaces at first to compare them with each other and get a feel for which one is closest to us, and then do it again in a while to verify whether we've been captivated by a trend, but whether the interior we're looking at really feels like ourselves.
