Jungle Style in Residential Interiors
HSE DESIGN LAB launches a series of materials devoted to current interior styles. This is a collaboration between the laboratory and the students of Illustration and Industrial Design Departments giving you an opportunity to see the works of the students and current trends in different interior styles.
The first material in the series is dedicated to the Jungle style.
This style is extremely popular in different areas of interior design: living spaces (bedrooms, children’s rooms, kitchen-living rooms), leisure and entertainment (restaurants, hotels, beauty salons).
When creating furniture and accessories we use natural materials: wood, stone, glass, as well as natural and eco-leather. Silhouettes of objects are soft and natural, emphasizing the ergonomics.
The jungle style is characterized by a natural color scheme. Natural shades are one of the main features: green, brown, sandy, combined with bright accents. Designers also use animalistic prints and patterns, created on the basis of motifs of African aesthetics.
Ekaterina Konovalova designed the floor lamp — in this project she reflects on the theme of love, care, and acceptance of self: «The shape of the lamp references elements of the architecture and interiors of Christian churches. Encountering a shape that references a sacred place or the framing of a sacred image, one, I hope, also feels and perceives oneself as sacred and valuable. A variation of the lamp with a built-in mirror speaks directly to the user and tells them that they are that sacred thing to be valued, to be cared for.» https://portfolio.hse.ru/Project/123068
Coffee table — cape is a coffee table project designed by Maria Khimenko, graduate of the Contemporary Practices of Industrial Design. Maria Khimenko: «The shape of the coffee table is inspired by sea pebbles. The sliding metal top depicts yin and yang, symbols of harmony. The product has a wide functionality due to the built-in pouf with a storage compartment. Each element can be used as an independent piece of interior, offering the consumer many compositional solutions.» https://portfolio.hse.ru/Project/139884
Olga Podbolotova: «Calming Chair is a chair for quiet rest, reflecting a metaphor for the word „intimacy“. It forms a „cocoon“ around your body and supports you like large palms. The minimalist details create a smooth emotional background, and the chair becomes a place to restore the spiritual and physical strength necessary to show empathy to others.» https://deziiign.com/project/bd5a6922ae524b729e92245e93d52d41
Sofia Kucheryavaya: «I was inspired by the shape of splashes flying from the falling drop. The splashes form a shape reminiscent of a bowl. My main goal was to create a stand that would be convenient for storing jewelry, but it’s not just a place for storage, but also an element of decor in itself.» https://portfolio.hse.ru/Project/130200
The main accent in the decoration of the walls is an illustration by Evgeniya Kishmariya from the project «(a fairy tale about a princess, a noble prince, and a milk fog)» https://portfolio.hse.ru/Project/112628
«The project, an illustrated book, was created together with studio letterhead using the custom-written text. The task was to create fantasy fairy-tale illustrations in selected color shades. My palette was three colors: black, warm ochre, and white. The illustrations complement the fairy tale about the adventures of the princess, the book describes many interesting locations, some of which I was able to visualize.»
The lighting of the table area is provided by lighting fixtures designed by Anastasia Stepukhova: «The first stage of the design was the choice of the key slogan of the collection related to empathy. „All objects are different, but they are parts of the same whole“ — it was this phrase that defined the theme of the designed objects. First of all, I analyzed physical properties of light. For me it is heterogeneous, especially if we consider a room where there are several sources of light. Rays of different temperature, brightness and directivity mix in a single stream. This idea is reflected in the shaping of the lamps. https://portfolio.hse.ru/Project/122315
The work is made by the units ‘lab lab’ and laboratory of interiors, as well as students: Olga Podbolotova, Sofia Kucheryava, Maria Khimenko, Anastasia Stepukhova, Ekaterina Konovalova, Evgeniya Kishmariya, Ille Krivaleva.
