Rina Lovko Studio creates austere interiors for Kiev’s Dicentra flower store

Polished terrazzo fixtures and mirrored surfaces offset the uncovered pipework and crumbling partitions inside this minimal florist in Kiev designed by Rina Lovko Studio.

Positioned in a Soviet-era warehouse on the left financial institution of the Dneiper river that runs by the Ukrainian capital, the 300-square-metre Dicentra retailer was beforehand used as a workshop.

Regionally based mostly Rina Lovko Studio was tasked with reworking it right into a retail house for the wholesale flower provider on a decent price range.

The linear house now features a reception space, a workbench for florists, utility rooms with a kitchen and a shared bathroom for company and workers.

Textured partitions and flooring that run all through have been made to seem unfinished. The unique asphalt flooring was lined with concrete, whereas white and inexperienced paint was stripped from the partitions together with the plaster. They have been completed with a glazed coating.

“The concept was to make the whole lot look untouched,” stated the studio, “as if we had come, put down furnishings and the shop began working.”

Easy LED tube lights illuminate the house, their wires seen and saved in cable trays.

A personal workplace for managers takes the type of a mirror-clad dice that sits on the far finish of the room, its sides not fairly reaching the partitions to make the encompassing house seem bigger and even longer.

Bespoke stainless-steel workstations dotted throughout the workplace are lined with gray terrazzo and completed with corners minimize at 45 levels.

“We beforehand developed a desk for the Dicentra retailer in Lviv,” defined the studio. “It was made to the identical design, however in several supplies.”

The desk is double-sided to permit for built-in drawers and bins. It is also mounted on wheels so it may be simply moved round.

“Above the desk is a lamp with a diffuser for snug work and on the opposite aspect a mirror in order that florists, within the means of working, can see bouquets from the aspect,” stated the studio.

White-wire out of doors tables and chairs have in any other case been used to furnish the house, together with potted vegetation. The studio additionally developed cell shelving-units constituted of perforated stainless-steel which might transport batches of flowers.

“Flowers are at all times completely different, so the cabinets have been made with particular milling, which lets you shortly change the peak of the mount,” the studio added.

A timber-panelled wall on the periphery of the shop is inset with two fridges – one is fronted by glass to showcase flowers to prospects, whereas the opposite is used to retailer minimize vegetation for wholesale purchasers.

Each are manufactured from particular thermal supplies and outfitted with sliding doorways and movement sensors.

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“Aluminum was chosen in order that the fridge would fulfil its job – to maintain the flowers chilly,” stated the studio.

“Inside, the fridges are painted in a graphite color. This choice is because of the product: flowers on a black background look brilliant and in distinction, which is sweet for gross sales. We supported this with lighting that made the flowers appeared even brighter.”

The shop’s angled entrance door has been constituted of crimson mesh and accomplished with neon signage, serving to it stand out in opposition to the neighbouring industrial buildings and draw prospects in.

Different minimal florists featured on Dezeen embrace a retailer in Japan that includes a curved black climbing body for vegetation and one other in Russia that boasts a sci-fi ceiling impressed by Stanley Kubrick’s movie 2001: A Area Odyssey.

Images is by Alexey Yanchenkov.