Personalizare într-un cadru interbelic

A rented apartment in the centre of Cluj is reorganised around personal objects and completed with new pieces of furniture and lighting, in a design that keeps the clarity of the space and its interwar character.

Designed by
ENHU Design
Type
apartment
Area
99 m²
Photographs
ENHU Design / arhivă proprie
Living room in daylight: a large light-coloured sofa on a pale rug, a dark wood chest of drawers with plants and an abstract painting, a low wooden coffee table with white flowers and sheer curtains.
  1. Nº 008 Dark wood coffee table See the piece →
Dining area: a grey-topped table with light wooden chairs on dark parquet, a painting with red dots on the white wall, a metal chandelier and a black open shelf.
Dining nook: a round table with wooden chairs, three pendant lights with metal globes, a vertical painting in orange and black and pots of cacti on the sill of a tall window.

The design of this 99 sq m apartment, Personalizare într-un cadru interbelic, in an interwar building in the centre of Cluj, began from the clients’ wish to live in the space in keeping with their own visual and functional references. Although this is a rented apartment, the intervention was not conceived as something provisional, but as a careful settling-in of things, able to give the space substance and real use.

A corner of the living room in daylight: a white sofa with two cushions, an arched floor lamp with a metal shade, sheer curtains and a dark wood chest of drawers with plants.
Bedroom seen in a large white-framed mirror: a bed with a grey tufted headboard, pink and beige bedding, a grey bench at the foot of the bed, an abstract painting and sheer curtains.
A hallway with tall white panelled doors open onto dark wood parquet and a table with wooden chairs and a painting with red dots.

The project brings together works of art, decorative objects and furniture already belonging to the clients with new purchases, introduced to complete the interior where function, balance or an accent was needed. The language of the design was built by bringing together mid-century elements, lighting with Art Deco inflections and contemporary pieces, without turning this combination into a theme in itself. The emphasis was placed on measure, on the relationship between objects and on how each intervention supports the whole. The spacious hallway, open to the living room and connected to the bedroom, plays an important part in the economy of the space, linking the rooms in a fluid sequence.

A bedroom corner in warm light: a table lamp with a green ceramic base and a cream shade, sheer curtains, a grey headboard and a pink and beige bedspread.
A window with sheer and grey curtains, an arched floor lamp with a metal shade and a large fern in the foreground.

Within this frame, the apartment keeps its architectural identity but takes on a more personal register, more precise and better articulated for everyday life. The result is an interior with visual density and clarity at the same time, in which the interwar character is not staged but integrated naturally into contemporary living.

A corner of the room in warm light: a dark wood cabinet with gold-toned pulls, a fern in a ceramic bowl, a red vase with feathers and a framed painting on the wall.
  1. Nº 019 Wooden cabinet with gold-toned pulls See the piece →
Window detail: cacti in terracotta pots on the sill, a round grey table, a wooden chair and a vase with dried branches.

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