Interiors the Best - October 2022

Interiors the Best is a Russian-language digital interiors magazine featuring houses and apartments by Russian and international designers, alongside new products and the latest trends in interior design. In issue 77, October 2022, the feature on the industrial loft spans pages 14–21. It opens with a spread of the concrete staircase and the centuries-old olive tree, with Oskar Zięta’s Rondo mirror on the wall.

Rondo is made in Zięta’s workshop in Zielona Góra, Poland, using FiDU, the technique the designer developed during his research at ETH Zurich. Two circular sheets of stainless steel are welded along their edges and inflated with high-pressure air to form a volume. Calculation governs only part of the process. Under pressure, the metal deforms freely, and the rim retains the ripples formed during fabrication.

A full-page photograph shows the dressing room, furnished with cabinets designed by Francesco Meneghello. Their bodies are clad in tempered reeded glass and capped with gloss-black lacquered tops. The glass is pressed while hot between engraved rollers that imprint its parallel flutes, which break up the light and give only a faint glimpse of what the cabinets hold.

The feature closes in the bathroom with HENRYTIMI’s Blocco basin, designed by Henry Timi with Giorgio Rava in Calacatta marble. HENRYTIMI makes its pieces in its own stoneworking, joinery and metalworking workshops.