Office by JIO Design Studio
Recently redesigned by JIO Design Studio, this beautiful office space is located in Warsaw, Poland.
Description
A tenement house at 10 Bagatela Street in Warsaw, built during 1911-1912, is considered as one of late Art Nouveau pearls. At first it was a colonial shop owned by Józef Wilder ? the first owner of the building, later it operated as a finishing school for girls founded by El?bieta Radzicka. Krzysztof Kamil Baczy?ski, a Polish poet who wrote during war and perished in the Warsaw Uprising, was born in that building in 1921. Nowadays, on the first floor of the antique tenement house is located a design studio named Jankowski & Opyrcha? (JIO).
A plaque on the building?s façade informs that it was built by Józef Napoleon Czerwi?ski and Wac?aw Heppen ? two architects responsible for projects of the most beautiful objects in downtown Warsaw. From the outside of the tenement house is a beautiful, eye-catching and ?rippling? façade, on the inside ? marble staircase with balustrade decorated by leafy frieze and carefully renovated antique windows and doors. Aleksander Jankowski and Agata Opyrcha?, both architects who opened the studio JIO in 2002, found the building at 10 Bagatela Street in 2010. A former flat on the first floor met their needs for an office perfectly and an original architectural composition of the object was an extra bonus, which could not be resisted.
Despite a terrible technical condition of the elevation, staircase and apart...
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