Brani & Desi Studio’s “Breakfast with Mondrian” is an Experiment with Forms and Colors
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Bulgarian studio Brani & Desi has designed a concept for an apartment that would translate Dutch artist Piet Mondrian’s Abstract paintings into 3D form. Named, “Breakfast with Mondrian,” the project, as described by the studio, “is an experimentaBrani & Desi Studio’s “Breakfast with Mondrian” is an Experiment with Forms and Colors
Bulgarian studio Brani & Desi has designed a concept for an apartment that would translate Dutch artist Piet Mondrian’s Abstract paintings into 3D form. Named, “Breakfast with Mondrian,” the project, as described by the studio, “is an experimental project where the use of forms, lines, and colors is focusing on the positive impact that space can provoke on the people inhabiting it.” Talking about the inspiration behind the project, Brani and Desi says, “The design concept is inspired by the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian’s vision of nature, which was manifested through his simple and pure Abstract paintings. He is one of the founders of the De Stijl art movement, an artistic style, which is recognized by the use of horizontal and vertical lines, and the fundamental colors – red, blue, yellow. With these elements, the artist developed a new plastic language where he shows how he sees the world, nature, and the human — as one unity. In his paintings, he represents the perfect harmony between the elements of this unity.” The studio adds, “Mondrian’s aim was to provoke emotions in viewers. The viewers should feel themselves dancing while watching his paintings. In our project, we want to provoke the same emotions. Through lines and colors, the inhabitants and their guests should feel themselves as if they are part of a dance.” True to Mondrian’s aesthetics and practice, Brani & Desi’s “Breakfast with Mondrian” apartment features bold blocks of primary color intended to evoke positive emotions. In the “dance between form and colors,” the studio, as described in the project note, has used “the white and black colors at intervals between them. The white is active, the black is passive.” The studio adds, “As Mondrian says that through oppositions of color and line one can see the plastic expression of relationships.” The conceptual interior of this experimental apartment is designed as an open space where every zone has its own function but is connected to the rest of the home at the same time. This spatial layout is also inspired by Mondrian’s depiction of nature. As the studio explains, “The meaning is that the kitchen cannot be without the dining room or living room. As in nature everything is connected and cannot without its parts, because one unity cannot be unity without its parts.”Though the project is at the conceptual level at the moment, the designers state that if realized, it would be created with epoxy resin paint. However, for Brani and Desi studio, more than the realization of the project in practicality, what mattered while conceptualizing the design was “to experiment with shapes and colors and their impact on humans.” Brani & Desi is a Bulgarian design studio, founded and headed by identical twin sisters Branimira Ivanova and Desislava Ivanova. The studio is known for designing interior spaces with bold geometry and colors. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more