Design studio Holloway Li has reimagined the interiors of the Puro resort in Poznań, Poland, integrating pure supplies, modern furnishings and domestically sourced artwork to create “a layering of historical past”.
Drawing on Poznań’s cultural and craft heritage, the studio aimed to seize town’s identification by weaving historic influences into the redesign of the resort, which first opened its doorways in 2014.
“We took inspiration from Poznań’s craft heritage, from the streamlined types and opulent carriage interiors of the early twentieth-century trains produced in native factories to experimental Nineteen Seventies glassware,” Holloway Li co-founder Alex Holloway informed Dezeen.
“The purpose was to create a layering of historical past that enterprise travellers, vacationers and locals might get pleasure from.”
Holloway Li remodeled the present floor ground and visitor rooms, introducing site-specific designs to create a particular visitor expertise.
The reception space contains a curved desk crafted from burnt crimson glazed tiles and elevated on sculpted limestone plinths. A hand-tufted rug beneath it incorporates patterns and textures impressed by the close by Ancient Market Sq., whereas a pendant lithe suspended above provides a recent contact.
As a nod to Poznań’s industrial historical past, a partition wall within the lounge is punctuated by a huge round brass cutout, referencing the design language of high-speed trains produced in Poznań’s surrounding factories within the early twentieth century.
The lounge provides a mixture of versatile seating choices, together with the studio’s T4 armchairs in collaboration with furnishings model Uma, Swedish design firm Fogia‘s sofas and a huge co-working desk with inlaid burl wooden markings.
A palette of pure supplies, together with strong oak, leather-based and glazed ceramics, enhances the sense of heat and domesticity all through the area.
This materials palette extends to the resort’s curated artwork assortment, developed in collaboration with Puro’s artwork director, Gosia Jankowska. The combination of native artistry was a key characteristic of the resort’s redesign, showcasing works by native artists, lots of whom are linked to Poznań College.
“The art work curation was the results of working intently with Puro’s artwork director Gosia Jankowska, who manages the resort’s rising artwork assortment,” stated challenge designer Gray Grierson. “All of the artworks on show are linked to Poznań and add an sudden textural dimension to the area.”
Native craftsmanship is additional celebrated via bespoke ornamental parts similar to glass home windows for a personal assembly room, which Holloway Li developed in collaboration with native producer Riwal Ceramika i Szkło.
The design of the home windows was knowledgeable by the artwork nouveau model of Poznań’s historic townhouses and established crown glass.
The resort’s restaurant continues this theme, with leather-based eating chairs and lengthy banquettes that nod to the rail carriage interiors manufactured in Poznań throughout the Nineteen Twenties and Thirties.
To create a shift within the areas as friends navigate via the resort, the corridors tackle a darker palette from the remainder of the interiors with earthy crimson tones and dim lighting, guiding friends to raise lobbies clad in staggered pale limestone.
Exterior the rooms, every visitor room quantity was individually moulded and glazed by ceramics producer Riwal Ceramika i Szkło. Inside, Holloway Li launched a uncomplicated color palette layered with cushioned textiles to evoke a way of residence.
The visitor rooms characteristic a inexperienced datum with a rounded timber beading, whereas a gradient bathe glass impressed by Polish glass homeware is the principle focus of the loos.
“There are moments of vibrancy which stand out from the pure palette,” stated Holloway. “Within the guestrooms, we launched a vivid gradient to the bathe glass impressed by historic Polish pressed glass homeware.”
The suites supply elevated touches, similar to limestone facet tables carved to enrich the curvature of material headboards and loos outfitted with inexperienced tiles and matching marbled sinks.
Holloway Li is an inside design studio based by Alex Holloway and Na Li in 2018.
Different current initiatives by the studio embody an house with a kitchen impressed by a fish and chip store and a Nineteen Seventies-inspired promoting company workplace.
