Its interior was designed by Urszula Sworczuk of MUTUO Studio Projektowe. The flat is located in a tenement house on Koszykowa Street. The 150 sq m space was filled with original furniture and accessories of various aesthetics. Taken together, they create a unique interior.
The premises are located on the top floor of a revitalised tenement house. The living room half of the flat has an ‘attic’ character. It was created from a converted attic. The bedroom and study part has typical tenement proportions and offers a view of the enclosed courtyard.
The tenement theme was intended to appear in the interiors, but the idea for the solutions was given to me by the characters of the owners themselves – cosmopolitan, open-minded, colourful personalities. Their distance to themselves and their surroundings, their youthful energy and perversity at the same time, was the prism for the solution of the tenement house motif in the flat. This gave birth to the half-serious eclecticism,” admits the designer.
The owners wanted their flat to feature heirloom furniture, a large table in the art déco style, a bedroom set and a bureau made of chevron. For these and more items, the architect found the right place. The interior designer notes that the art déco theme has become very important. It runs through the entire flat, whether in the design of the stained-glass doors, the arched door satellites and the library or the rtv furniture. It has succeeded here in creating a visual effect in which we see the influence of the Memphis Group or elements of mid-century modern. The flat in the townhouse is filled with positive energy.
To wit, there is a golden oculus in the entrance hall, an exaggerated Kurpie cut-out referring to the wall stencil painting of a bourgeois interior in the grey study, a pink cooker, ceiling paintings in the main bathroom or a red-coloured living room with a canary sofa for the master of the house and a red recliner for the lady of the house, ” he adds.
The whole project was driven by the idea of recycling. Of course, it would have been much simpler to order all new furniture, but in this interior, second-hand furniture took precedence.
It was by all means not a typical design process. Many things and ideas were created during the building process, there was no dictating of decisions already made once, no dictating of fashions and glitz for show and plastic. The process was more like creating a collage, where I wasn’t the only one holding the paintbrush,” concludes Urszula Sworczuk.
photos: Marcin Grabowiecki
design: Mutuo Design Studio
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