KARAVAY

Showroom

Location: Kiev, Ukraine

Designing year: 2012

Realization: 2013

Area: 75 m2

The show-room of the designer Irina Karavay was located in the building of the pre-revolutionary period in the heart of Kiev. It was there that Iryna Karavaj's office was not there for the first time, but now they decided to expand the closed studio, adding to her a boutique, a room and personal designer's office. For domestic use, there is also a small kitchen and an additional bathroom.

The most interesting thing in this project was to provide a neutral "background" for the exposition of goods and to combine all the necessary functional areas of the salon shop in a small existing room. Also quite interesting was the work on the selection of small furniture objects, the selection of weaving and color of the carpet, the formation of "light atmosphere". It all came out: satisfied customer, received good feedback from visitors.

Our main task was to select such a color scheme of the premise, which would demonstrate good collections of clothes and not distort the transfer of color of human skin and used fabrics. White and gray colors came up perfectly. In the interior, the classic scheme "light top - dark bottom" was used, adding several colored accents in the form of bright sofas, pouffes and textiles. The carpet on the floor, created by a joint Swedish-Ukrainian enterprise, is unique in its color, it was created on request. The monochrome interior also animates the brick wall with an arch. She visually divides the room into two equivalent rooms. The unbleached brick adds vintage notes to this glamorous modern world of fashion and seems to remind that besides the silky, soft-to-touch tissues in nature, there are more coarse texture.

Much attention was paid to commercial equipment. All items of cabinet furniture (racks for clothes, reception, a desk, chests of drawers, bookshelves, kitchen) are custom-made for author's sketches Boris Tsarenko.