What do you do if you have an impressive pottery collection and don't indicate anywhere? Of course, put it on the ceiling.
Okay, well, it may not be the most obvious solution, but that is exactly what makes this modern kitchen idea so fascinating. The room feels in the kitchen and the gallery of the same parts, whereby the customer's versatile and characteristic art collection focuses on and shapes the atmosphere of the room.
It is both a celebration of the client's collection and her cultural heritage, in which Romanian folklor art works in harmony with the traditional Belgian architecture, an ode to the Romanian-Belgian couple, which describes this room as their home.
So it makes sense that Matisses La Blouse Roumaine series for Tine Loncin, the designer of this wonderful space, was an important point of inspiration. In these paintings, the French artist Matisse creates a style with Eastern European motifs and symbols that are inspired by his friend, the Romanian artist Theodor Pallady. The series is considered a real artistic representation of East meets West, similar to this kitchen.
The letter
The open layout immediately welcomes you to the colorful cuisine.
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Interior architect Tine Loncin, the most important challenge for the most important challenge of interior design Tine Loncin, commissioned to design a complete kitchen renovation, was clear from the start: transforming a small kitchen into a suitable home for the customer's 100-price-effective collection.
“The client wanted to exhibit her collection of Romanian plates in the kitchen, but also needed plenty of storage space,” explains Tine – a difficult thing that can be pulled off in a tiny apartment kitchen. With a touch of creative thinking, however, Tine came across his own solution.
“Instead of choosing between the two, I let the plates fly. In a solution that is practical, personal and playful,” she says.
This balance between practicality and personality is the central core of the design approach. The expansive art collection was not only a problem, but also an important source of inspiration for space, a significant for the identity and culture of the customer, which shape the final design.
Tine states: “My design for the total renovation of the kitchen was conceived to honor and reinforce this spirit: a space that feels real, lived and quietly inspiring.”
The inspiration
The client's cultural identity was an important inspiration for Tine.
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As already mentioned, Matisses's Eastern European -inspired series served as an important inspiration point for Tine during the design process, but maybe Matisse was not the only artist to go to the lead.
“The work of the Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi also headed my thinking. His pursuit of essence, which is expressed through pure lines and elementary forms, agrees closely with my approach to the spatial design,” says Tine.
Where Brancusi and Matisse can differ in terms of medium, with Brancusi being great in the world of sculpture and Matisse is best known for his collage works, the two share a striking similarity in their form. Dramatic, comprehensive lines and softer, gentle curves are characteristic of both works and make them a rich but quiet coherent couple to find themselves from inspiration.
But it was not just their idiosyncratic styles that pulled; These artists also represented something beyond their work; They stood as a representative of their cultures as a whole. Romanian meets French, east, meets west. And as Tine mentioned, “the cultural wealth of customers, a Belgian-Romanian couple, served an important source of inspiration for this design.”
Although these cultural references in the entire design are most obviously represented in the dramatic representation of traditional Romanian art.
“Research into traditional Romanian architecture, especially in Transylvania, showed a strong use of courageous, powerful colors for windows, doors and roof edges. My initial inspiration collage clearly indicated: this should be red,” says Tine.
The red window frame does not only add a splash of color. It draws a visual connection between the architecture and the plates that decorate the ceiling and ensures a more coherent feeling in the room.
The design
“As an interior design, I listen carefully to my customers; the preparatory phase is crucial for me,” says Tine.
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As often as in rooms with a brave statement, like this ceiling, the rest of the design is rather steamed and fades the background. Not in this kitchen.
Here the eclectic and striking ceiling covered with plates is supplemented by an electrical, green, colored space and graphic black and white tiles. But somehow these contrasting elements, each are so brave, come together to create a balanced, harmonious design.
For Tine, however, there was no question that these elements would work well together. As she explains: “The green color is indeed brave, but from the start I knew that such a lively shadow in this environment would be very suitable. In my designs, I never make an intervention without a good reason.”
She continues: “Imagine the same collection of jugs, jugs and plates against a white background. All decorations would compete for attention, and the whole thing would feel chaotic. With the strong color, the entire collection is framed in a clear context, which is calm.
To ensure that this works, Tine was required to be a kitchen soil just as bold. “I was very aware of not combining the dominant bright color with a 'neutral' or simple soil. That would have felt flat without deep.
“Matisse creates emotions and dynamics through color. In The Romanian blouseThe embroidered patterns on the blouses are defined against bold background colors. This inspired me to make the decorative objects in the kitchen clear and expressive, “says Tine.
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But it is also not all shape over function. Each material was selected for its durability and its appealing appearance. The actual challenge was to maintain the same green tone in these different materials.
“The cupboards consist of high -pressure laminate, and I searched for a suitable backplash for a long time. I found it in the facade cladding! When I discovered a nice green there, I set the choice of high -pressure laminate fire.
Thanks to their smooth, crispy materiality, the counters and floor coverings offer a slim, minimalistic feeling.
“The code worktop material is a composite, a mixture of quartz and small natural stone particles that are bound with resin. The floor tiles are thanks to their dense composition and its high burning temperature,” says Tine.
Overall, these materials form a striking but extremely permanent kitchen design.
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