Black ceiling

A project made for a new hair salon for Studio Chmielewski. The client requested for his new location within his brief for seven cutting-stations, three washing-stations, a hair dye mixing station, a reception and waiting room, plus a social area. Agata Gromada The project can be seen as a three-dimensional painting which occupied the room with a slanted ceiling, which at its highest point reached a height of 4,5 meters. Agata Gromada The first step was to divide this unused height by painting the ceiling and the upper part of the room in a black-satin paint; creating a feeling of intimacy and introducing a pleasant human-scale. The sharp division in section determined the height of the black-coated steel structure as well as in... More

Author: Maciej Kurkowski, Maciej Sutuła Location: Warsaw, Poland Total Area: 216 m2 Volume: 842 m3 Design: 2013 Construction: 2013 Photographs: Paulina Sasinowska, Maciej Kurkowski, Maciej Sutuła The object of design is a property in the centre of Warsaw, located on the Kredytowa street. This tenement house, funded by Mr. Goldstand in 1912-1916, was realized according to the project by Józef Napoleon Czerwiński and Wacław Heppen as a strongly decorated, seven-storey building. It survived the WWII in relatively good condition, but during a modernization in the 50's its appearance was changed drastically, according to pseudo-modernistic fashion: the structure was reduced to four storeys by liquidation of its beautiful crowning, al... More