{tag:studenci}, a student of the Faculty of Interior Design, Design and Scenography at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, designed the showroom of the niche cosmetics brand Moré. Juxtaposing contrasting colors and geometric forms, she created a space gradually revealing itself to the viewer.
The author's assumption was to create an unusual public utility interior
© Alicja Pieczykolan
The concept for the showroom of the cosmetics brand Moré was created as a semester project by Alicja Pieczykolan during classes in the interior design studio, taught by Katarzyna Anna Jagiełło, PhD, Aleksandra Przybyła and Tomasz Taciak. The author's main idea was to create an unconventional public interior, which, from the very facade of the building, will encourage passers-by to cross the threshold and discover the changing architecture of the showroom space.
The visit to the showroom begins with the hall, running around the entire premises
© Alicja Pieczykolan
zoning the space
When designing the interior layout, the author was inspired by the assumptions and motto of the Moré cosmetics brand. In this way, a zoned space was created, acting like a labyrinth that gradually reveals its mystery.
projection of the showroom
© Alicja Pieczykolan
The visit to the showroom begins with the hall, running around the entire premises, which is divided into a product display area and a space for personalizing cosmetics, and ends with a casket-like room located in the center of the premises, which houses the sales section.
The facade of the showroom is made of glass bricks
© Alicja Pieczykolan
Glass bricks and contrasting colors
An important aspect in designing a space that showcases cosmetic products, is the large amount of diffused daylight. For this reason, the student created the entire front facade of the facility and the section for personalizing cosmetics out of glass bricks that let in just the right amount of natural light. A characteristic accent of the interior is the strong color scheme in contrasting combinations of blood red with rotten green and black and white. Through textural repainting, the colors of the interior strongly affect the sense of sight of visitors to the showroom.
The character of the interior is given by contrasting colors
© Alicja Pieczykolan
geometric forms
The showroom's furnishings are fixed elements, which were also designed by the author. The display shelves, overlapping and interspersing the aisles, are meant to provide a background for the brand's products, so their shelves are minimalist in expression. The stepped detail is only noticed on the structural columns, visually combining the contrasting red of the resin floor with the black paint of the ceiling.
The sales section is a space full of white and black
© Alicja Pieczykolan
Looking into the "casket" of the sales section, on the other hand, the attention is drawn to the geometric white and black forms and the sculpted body of the counter, which is a response to the wall and floor mosaics.
The whole project, in spite of its extreme differentness, achieves a coherent whole, continuing in an uninterrupted artistic dialogue," the author concludes.
