Prague 旧宅工业风大开间设计丨意大利布拉

The apartment is located on the 5th floor of a house from the early 20th

century in a residential part of Prague and has an area of 100 m2.

South-facing windows ensure very good daylight and a pleasant atmosphere

throughout the apartment.

We adapted the classic layout with individual rooms and a long entrance

hall to the current ways of living, cooking and relaxing by removing

most of the partitions. In this way, we turned an ordinary 2 + 1 (2

rooms + kitchen) into an open loft with a steel-glass partition into the

bedroom. Privacy is additionally ensured by a velvet curtain.

The resulting 80-meter open space is divided through colors and

materials. While the bedroom is a teal cube, the main space is

mostly monochrome combined with oak parquet flooring and other wooden

elements.

The windows are highlighted by protruding panels.

Part of the concept was working with basic and timeless to industrial

materials. One of the original walls with all the paintings has been

preserved and framed as a piece of art in new plaster. The entrance and

bathroom have light gray rubber flooring, the heating is made of finned

tubes and the bathroom tiling is basic white ceramics in a rectangular

format popular in the first half of the 20th century. We have managed to

keep and restore not only the original oak parquet floors but also all

the Czech mid-century modern chairs that were left in the apartment when

we first visited it.

This project gave us the opportunity to turn a very standard apartment

into an almost loft like space. This was achieved by the change of the

layout as well as by the use of materials and colors. The choice of

Czech modern furniture together with contemporary design and custom

designed pieces completes the feel of this apartment.