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What is Windows treatment? That is hard, soft or combination of both decorative coverings of windows enhancing room style and provides shade and privacy. 

The design of window treatments is often seen as an integral part of an interior design concept. It can however also be a standalone business and very often interior designers are called upon to just design a new window treatment, rather…

Kitchen Design, everything you have to know [part one]

[part one]

In our modern and busy everyday life, a kitchen is no more a secret place where we only cook our food.  It became an important area of our home. It has a social role of a place where our family gathers in the evenings for dinner or we meet our guests. Very few people have time to prepare food to carry it to another room and then bring the dishes back for cleaning. In our daily…

Kitchen / Dining / Utility area Interior Design

Brief

The clients for this project are a couple trading up to a large 4 bedroom house in an exclusive estate. The building is in the early stages of construction and the clients were keen to get the Interior Designer, on board from the start. They wanted to start with the design of the Kitchen / Dining / Utility area first and that is the work I represent in this piece.

The clients had no…

Dental Cabinet Reception Makeover

The Project

I don’t know anybody who loves to attend the dental practice but every one of us has to do it from time to time. Wouldn’t be better if we have to wait for our procedures in a well-designed place providing comfort and relax atmosphere? It most definitely does.

This small private practice approached me with a request for making a proposal project for renovation and makeover of…

Golden Blue – Living Room Design

When moving to a new home we want it to look better than the old one and if we can’t decide what exactly that mean and how to achieve it the best option is to ask a professional for help. That was the case in this project. My client bought a house with a big open space where the kitchen the living room and the dining room should be placed but they had no idea how to design the space according to…

The Experience Resorts CONCEPT DESIGN

Project Location: Carambola Beach St Croix Thailand

CONCEPT DESIGN Club building, pools and lazy river are parts of the concept design of a resort complex investment project which will offer an unforgettable holiday experience under hot Thailand sun.

The whole complex is consist of the main hotel building and multiple separate family houses.  Our task was to design and propose a new clubhouse…

I present my last Kitchen extension and daytime space renovation project. Originally space is placed on the ground floor of three storey house and is a separated self-spaced one bedroom flat.

The goal was to achieve nice luxury looking space and at the same time to be comfortable. The biggest challenge was the natural lighting. The flat is located below street level and the rear garden is raised…

Our gardens are a place where we relax after long working day, enjoy ourselves and family during the weekends, socialising with friends and have guests when there is an occasion and the weather is pleasant.

Some of us like to put more plants and flowers other prefer less flora and bigger clean space for BBQ and sun beds.  Whatever is your taste is we all like a nice layout and comfortable…

Kitchen Design – follow up and finished project with pictures

The finished kitchen is finally here.

Cabinets – Basic white.

Bespoke Doors – made by Sweden company:

Doors dark colour Doors light colour Handle design

Main worktop – White Quartz Stone.

Island worktop – Copper plated surfaces:

Finished Design

More about the project you could find here:

https://ryid.blog/2016/06/26/london-house-renovation/

Bathroom design – collaboration project

This bathroom project is made for PH London Ltd. in collaboration with Paulo Hanke. My task was to help to create the design and drawings. After we finished the project I decided to make a 3D pictures for it and represent my view of the design with visual images.

I allow myself to make some little changes and represent my point for the colours and overall design.

Here you can see the mood board…

This is the first stage of Kitchen extension and ground floor renovation of London house. Two options of interior was provided.

Main features of Option one:

– full with extension; – more space for kitchen cabinets; – sink is situated on the island; – decorative brick wall in the kitchen; – extended wall under stairs with more space for WC and space for storage; – kitchen and living room on two…

Natural oak cabinets, white worktops, tiled backsplash and vertical herb garden.

  DETAILS

  PRESENTATION

Plastic Bottles foot stool

A sample footstool made of waste – plastic bottles and denim

INSTRUCTION

Hans J. Wegner once said „A chair shoud have no rear view, it should be beautiful from all sides and angles” and his shell chair is a perfect example. An elegant low lounge chair, with a generous smile and an inviting seat for life is what makes it one of Hans Wegner’s most iconic chairs. Yet it almost didn’t make it.

The three-legged shell chair, also known as Hans J. Wegner CH07 Lounge Chair, has been designed for the annual Furniture Guild Exhibition in Copenhagen in 1963.  While some critics loved the avant-garde design, the general public was reluctant to accept the chair’s bold and different design. A few limited series were launched, but the project soon came to a standstill, because of its very high production costs. In the early ’90s, Wegner’s “Three-legged Shell Chair” began to attract impressive prices at renowned auctions around the globe, leading to Carl Hansen & Son re-introducing the chair in 1998.

The Shell Chair immediately won several design awards and the public absolutely loved it, showing that the CH07 Chair was truly ahead of its time.

The new manufacturer had been able to keep down the costs tanks to advances in techniques of woodworking, and after 34 years of oblivion, the chair finally got its breakthrough.

It’s curious to mention that one of the original shell chairs from the 60s sold for $20,000 at Christies in London in 1999. C. H. Olesen (2014)

Hans Wegner’s Shell Chair

  The famous Shell Chair is beautiful three-legged piece made of form-pressed veneer, achieves its floating lightness thanks to wing-like lines and arching curves of a three-legged design. Seat and back are made of form pressed plywood shells from which the chair got its name. The three legs consist of a laminated construction, the two front legs are made of one continuous piece and the back leg is a separate element. Its deep seat is remarkably comfortable. To enhance the comfort, Wegner has added two upholstered cushions, which are fastened to the shell with screws from the back.

The Back Screws

In its variations, the seat and back could be upholstered in fabric or leather. The design is minimalist with organic and natural softness, perfectly executed joints with exquisite shapes. It is both monumental and compact, very comfortable despite the asceticism of his lines. Wegner’s round CH008 table makes a popular accompaniment to it.

Shell Chair and CH008 Table

Simultaneously minimalistic yet generous. “It’s a chair you’ll have for the rest of your life.”¹

The Shell Chair doesn’t look like a sculpture. It looks like something to sit in. It includes only what is required for sitting. The single rear leg doubles as a support for the back; the decorative “wings” that flare out on each side turn out to be pleasant places to rest one’s hands. In spite of its three-legs, it stands well on the floor and does not easily topple over. Although it is low and does not feature armrests, it is easy to get up by seizing the front edge and pulling oneself up.

The triangular footprint means the Shell Chair fits in a wide range of spaces, from waiting room corners to living room centerpieces. It is elegant as a soloist as well as in groups of two, three or more.

It is perfect piece for furnishing either public spaces as cafes or longue bars or you can put it in the living room of your house by the sea. The style fits in variety of interior styles. It combined successful with leather or fabric couches, other pieces of classic or contemporary style furnishing and decors.

San Francisco interior designers Studio O+A

                                      Residential interior

Smiling Chair combination with Kartell Bourgie lamp

Several manufacturers such as Johannes Hansen, Carl Hansen & Sons, PP Mobler, Erik Jorgensen and more, manufactured the design. However, not only that, the Wegner’s famous chair is an object to lots of reproductions. This fact is a statement that this piece of furniture is popular and became a classic in present time. The classic mid-century furniture continue to influence the aesthetic and zeitgeist of today. The appreciation of vintage and nostalgia, and a reconsideration of design, its elements, principles, and applications, have reinforced the ‘classic’ and its value to contemporary design.

The Shell chair as many other “modern classic” design furniture are wildly spread across the world. You can find it all around the world such as Longue “Koyagumi” in Japan in original or by the replica on American ebay.com or from Australian online shop chicicat.com. The furniture fits as part of mid-century style furnishing interiors and the contemporary ones. You can find a lots of replica models in online shops. Some of them are in different size proportions or upholstered wit faux leather but if you can’t afford the price of the original and still want to get the look, you have a chance given thanks to its famous.

The Original                              Replica

I had the opportunity to see this piece of classic design in original in couple of high street furniture shops in Stockholm. In one of them, it was exposed in arrangement of a group of two with upholstery sofa, accompanied with small round coffee tables and leather carpet on the floor. The chairs were made from natural oak and upholstered with white leather. That inspired me to represent my complement design for this iconic chair in the same combination of materials.

With its timeless appearance mild flowing ergonomic forms and high quality materials this iconic chair will continuing to expire furniture and interior designers all around the world. For me was a pleasure to make a complement to it.

Bibliography:

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 Christian Holmstedt Olesen (2014). Hans J. Wegner: Just One Good Chair. Hatje Cantz 

Sketches

Drawings & 3D Model

3D Renders

Small open space Kitchen design

This is design of small kitchen in open space room in London, UK. The room was extended on one side to make space for the cabinets and the new wall was build to make space for small bathroom.

Kitchen Drawings

Before reconstruction

  After reconstruction & Kitchen drawing

Renovation & design of old house in London.

Kitchen Design concept Sample board

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen Drawings Floor plan&Elevations

Main house Entrance

Traditional English style kitchen Design for “Freedom Construction” UK London