Yakusha Design creates earthy interiors for Antwerp's Faina Gallery
A colour scheme informed by soil and moss features inside this showroom in Antwerp, Belgium, which Yakusha Design has developed for its own furniture line Faina.
The retail space, named Faina Gallery, is set inside a 500-year-old building.
As a result, the studio steered away from making major structural alterations to avoid disturbing its historic framework.
The Faina showroom is set within a 500-year-old building
Instead, the Ukrainian studio devised a new colour palette, painting walls throughout the shop in earthy shades that evoke the natural world.
"I wanted to convey this feeling of grounding serenity in the interior," explained Victoria Yakusha, who founded both Yakusha Design and Faina.
"Nothing is more powerful than the energy of earth. When standing on bare earth, I am one with nature, I gain strength." Walls in the first room are coated with green paint
Upon entering Faina Gallery, visitors walk into a room almost entirely washed with a deep, mossy green paint.
The only surfaces untouched by the colour are the grey terrazzo floors and the ceiling, which has been left in its original state.
A stainless-steel cabinet shows off Faina's ceramic ornaments
Matching green furnishings are displayed throughout the space, including Faina's angular Toptun armchairs and three of its knobbly hand-sculpted Soniah floor lamps.
There is also a beige edition of the Plyn sofa, with its gently curving cushions stacked on top of each other "like stones that...
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