Ukrainian designer Anastasiia Tempynska has accomplished a life-style retailer in Kyiv the place trendy supplies, together with mirrors and tiled surfaces, had been used to enhance the constructing’s unique ornate inside.
The showroom for Ukrainian model Gunia Venture occupies the bottom ground of a late Nineteenth-century constructing positioned on a historic road close to Kyiv’s Golden Gate.
Tempynska’s studio Temp Venture oversaw the conversion of the area, which as soon as housed the Embassy of the Republic of Panama, right into a showroom for presenting Gunia Venture’s clothes, jewelry, equipment and homeware.
The undertaking offered a number of vital challenges, together with a scarcity of pure mild and the owner’s requirement to protect current options comparable to picket doorways, panelled partitions, mahogany cupboards and ornamental ceilings.
“The query was whether or not we might absolutely realise our imaginative and prescient – create a cohesive, practical area whereas working inside such strict boundaries,” stated Tempynska.
The designer’s proposal delivered a sequence of curated areas aimed toward reflecting the model’s method to reinterpreting conventional Ukrainian crafts by a recent lens.
“The brand new Gunia Venture residence is an area designed to stay related for years to come back,” Tempynska defined.
“It feels extra like an idea retailer or a gallery than a standard showroom – a chic, welcoming surroundings that invitations interplay.”
The undertaking combines ornate particulars such because the coffered ceilings and ornamental wall panels with minimalist, trendy interventions that do not distract from the model’s merchandise.
The shop’s structure echoes the composition of the gathering, with areas devoted to totally different wares.
The doorway leads right into a reception space that includes a small lounge and checkout, with a kids’s nook tucked away on the again.
To the correct of the reception is a room stuffed with ceramics, whereas on the opposite aspect is the jewelry area that includes glass shows, emerald-hued cupboards and irregularly formed mirrors suspended from the ceiling.
The central clothes space is outlined by a round lighting fixture suspended above an identical carpet and modular bench. A hidden doorway built-in into the cupboards on the rear of this area results in a personal becoming room.
The shop’s color palette of greens, blues, pale pinks and beige tones is meant to evoke nature and the pastoral motifs which are a core a part of Gunia’s model id.
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Tiles used all through the showroom introduce a tactile, handcrafted really feel to among the partitions and a desk used for displaying equipment within the clothes space.
Mirrored surfaces in every area carry out practical roles whereas additionally creating what the designer described as a sequence of “Instagram zones” the place prospects can snap selfies for social media.
The rigorously preserved cupboards had been modernised by changing the prevailing cabinets with slender metallic constructions that includes built-in lighting and glass again panels.
Bespoke picket furnishings designed to reference conventional Ukrainian woodworking is complemented by trendy items from manufacturers Noom, Woo and Cegla Studio.
The showroom is the most recent retail undertaking accomplished by Tempynska, who has additionally designed a brutalist-inspired eroticwear showroom and a futuristic laser clinic that includes fleshy supplies.
The pictures is courtesy of Temp Venture.
