The psychologist and writer lived for a long time in a rented housing estate in Prague’s Đáblice. They liked the location, and when they started thinking about their own home, they decided to look in the same neighborhood. They were lucky, they managed to buy an apartment in the neighboring house. It was just the right size, but it needed reconstruction. The couple therefore approached the Papundekl studio, which designed a home reflecting the millennial lifestyle.
The owners admit that they could not agree on how the interior should look for a long time. “In the end, we decided on a relatively modest renovation and added to the apartment a play with the modernism of the 1950s and the rich colors of countries on the Tropic of Cancer. The tables made of exotic wood in the main living area are complemented by chrome chairs, the sofa is in the color of curry, we have cacti here and also a crimson Persian carpet,” the pair describe.
The task for the Papundekl studio was to make the interior brighter and at the same time reflect respect for the housing estate from the 1960s. “In order to let more natural light into the center of the apartment, we designed new partitions made entirely of luxfers. The light thus passes across the entire apartment. Luxfers have good acoustic properties, transmit light and can easily be folded into an arch, which we used to round off the originally daunting alleys around the bathroom core,” describe architects Šimon Bierhanzl and Jan Bárta.
Check out the imaginative transformation.
