Yakusha Design applies darkish tones all through its Kiev workplaces

Mottled gray partitions meet black-brick partitions to type the monochromatic interiors of Yakusha Design’s self-designed workplace and showroom in Kiev, Ukraine.

Named Ya Vsesvit, the workplace accommodates Yakusha Design’s personal studio, a showroom and an 80-seat lecture room for occasions.

The studio is lead by Ukranian architect and designer Victoriya Yakusha, who wished to create an area the place totally different “design-minded” people inside the firm may work beneath one roof, encouraging the potential for collaboration.

“The house is created for architects, vogue designers, visualizers, stylists, photographers and copywriters – anybody who hunts for inspiration,” defined Yakusha.

“[Ya Vsesvit] additionally means ‘I am the universe’ in Ukrainian, so the inside is constructed on the concept of mixing.”

Yakusha herself comes from a multi-disciplinary background. In addition to working her personal design studio, she heads up Faina – a furnishings model that makes items out of conventional supplies from her native nation like clay, wooden, willow and flax.

The model may also be based mostly out of Ya Vsesvit.

When it got here to growing the interiors, Yakusha Design opted for a largely monochromatic color scheme.

A number of partitions constituted of jet-black bricks seem all through the house, contrasting in opposition to the encircling structural partitions which have been roughly rendered with gray clay.

Black-framed panels of glazing shut off the primary assembly room and a few small workplaces. One in all them is centred by a chunky desk crafted from a single block of sandstone.

Ornamental ornaments and furnishings in Ya Vsesvit are largely designed by Faina, permitting the house to double-up as a showroom for Yakusha.

Objects embody the model’s tapering Trembita vase, which takes its title from a standard Ukranian wind instrument, and its organically-shaped Ztista chairs that are punctuated with holes.

Faina’s enormous woven Strikha lamp has additionally been suspended over a piece desk, which takes cues from the straw roofs of Ukranian huts.

Shiny foil-effect seating poufs and enormous wall mirrors have additionally been dotted round. Steel shelving has then been built-in into the partitions to maintain work areas clutter-free.

“The largest goal on this undertaking was to remain sincere, to create a design that is capable of stay sooner or later and never just one or two years, as all traits do,” added the studio.

Ya Vsesvit is longlisted on this 12 months’s Dezeen Awards within the Small Workspace Inside class. It can compete head-to-head in opposition to tasks like The Wing Dumbo, which is decked out with vibrant furnishings, and Area10’s head workplace, which has a versatile flooring plan divided by cell partitions.

Pictures is by Mikey Estrada.