Mistovia designs eclectic Warsaw apartment as “elaborate puzzle”

Walnut burl and terrazzo accents are mixed with chunky assertion furnishings on this residence in Warsaw, which Polish studio Mistovia has renovated for an artwork director and her pet dachshund.

Situated within the metropolis’s Praga Północ neighbourhood, the 45-square-metre flat is ready inside a Nineteen Fifties property designed by Polish architects Jerzy Gieysztor and Jerzy Kumelowski.

Mistovia devised an eclectic materials and color palette when updating the inside, which the studio describes as an “elaborate puzzle” of contrasting patterns.

“The residence relies on a number of dominant ‘cubes’,” mentioned Mistovia founder Marcin Czopek. “Every of them has a unique operate, accentuated by varied patterns by way of the usage of veneer or color.”

The lounge is outlined by a wall panelled in swirly gray wooden veneer– initially designed by Memphis Group founder Ettore Sottsass for Alpi within the Nineteen Eighties – whereas the toilet is obscured behind a wall of glass blocks.

The kitchen is now related to the lounge to create one open-plan house, crammed with assertion items together with a misshapen vase and the molten-looking Plopp stool by Polish designer Oskar Zieta, set towards the backdrop of floor-to-ceiling walnut-burl cupboards.

Terrazzo was used to type chunky black-and-white legs for the kitchen’s window-side breakfast bar in addition to a whole burnt-orange desk within the eating space.

“A muted base – shiny, uniform micro cement flooring and partitions with a fragile texture – allowed for the usage of geometric varieties, wealthy in fascinating constructions and daring patterns,” Czopek mentioned.

Designed for an artwork director and her canine, the residence encompasses a equally putting rest room.

Right here, gridded monochrome tiles and glass-brick partitions are paired with an announcement standalone sink, that includes squat cobalt-blue legs that help a tortoiseshell cupboard topped by a triptych mirror.

A purple wardrobe enhances the rectilinear marble headboard within the residence’s singular bed room, including to the boxy geometry of the house.

Additionally in Warsaw, Polish studio Projekt Praga included mid-century parts and pops of color right into a dumpling restaurant whereas native agency Noke Architects referenced the excessive waters of Venice in a bar full with sea-green flooring and skirting tiles.

The pictures is by Oni Studio.