HOME TBILISI – NATA JANBERIDZE
HOME
In her Tbilisi home and studio, the co-founder of Rooms Studio Nata Janberidze shapes Georgian architecture and design. Entering her apartment immediately creates a chain of recollections: custom-made wooden shelves house her personal collection of books on art and architecture, poetry, postcards, artworks by friends and by Janberidze. House plants cover the edges of objects and reach for the glass skylight above. A glass partition leads towards the living room, which is combined with an open kitchen set in a Tbilisian glasshouse. Open windows overlook the trees growing inside a classic Tbilisian courtyard. As in her design practice, Janberidze’s interest towards symbolism and allegory is being gradually replaced by more authentic and earthly designs, while not fully abandoning the former. However, some of her favourite collected objects, furniture, textile, books and art are delicately gathered in the room. Materials such as wood, leather, cotton, metal create the space. Historic layers vary from early 1950s to the 1990s and contemporary design.
Rooms Studio, which Janberidze co-founded with Keti Toloraia in 2007, has put Georgia on the map of the international interior and product design world, blurring the lines between art, design and architecture. The showroom, situated in a central 19th century mansion with high ceilings, bright and airy rooms, and a long wooden balcony covered in vine and twining wisteria, presents what the studio is best at, a well-balanced and sharp dialogue between old and new, ancient and contemporary.
Read the full home and studio feature in Ark Journal Vol. XIV.
WORDS Elene Abashidze
PHOTOGRAPHY James Nelson
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HOME TBILISI – NATA JANBERIDZE
HOME
In her Tbilisi home and studio, the co-founder of Rooms Studio Nata Janberidze shapes Georgian architecture and design. Entering her apartment immediately creates a chain of recollections: custom-made wooden shelves house her personal collection of books on art and architecture, poetry, postcards, artworks by friends and by Janberidze. House plants cover the edges of objects and reach for the glass skylight above. A glass partition leads towards the living room, which is combined with an open kitchen set in a Tbilisian glasshouse. Open windows overlook the trees growing inside a classic Tbilisian courtyard. As in her design practice, Janberidze’s interest towards symbolism and allegory is being gradually replaced by more authentic and earthly designs, while not fully abandoning the former. However, some of her favourite collected objects, furniture, textile, books and art are delicately gathered in the room. Materials such as wood, leather, cotton, metal create the space. Historic layers vary from early 1950s to the 1990s and contemporary design.
Rooms Studio, which Janberidze co-founded with Keti Toloraia in 2007, has put Georgia on the map of the international interior and product design world, blurring the lines between art, design and architecture. The showroom, situated in a central 19th century mansion with high ceilings, bright and airy rooms, and a long wooden balcony covered in vine and twining wisteria, presents what the studio is best at, a well-balanced and sharp dialogue between old and new, ancient and contemporary.
Read the full home and studio feature in Ark Journal Vol. XIV.
WORDS Elene Abashidze
PHOTOGRAPHY James Nelson