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Light lands first here, on white walls, a wooden floor and the broad opening of the room. The old and new interior<\/a> is built around that brightness, with large windows, arched openings and a mix of pieces that do not match by age but do speak to each other through use. The apartment was originally divided into smaller rooms. After moving in, the layout was changed to give the space room to breathe, and that decision still shapes how the home is read today.<\/p>\n

old and new interior as the architectural starting point<\/h2>\n

The living area does not rely on a fixed scheme. A purple sofa sits under the window line, while framed works and small objects move across the walls in a measured way. Nothing is arranged to look overly matched. The owner says she prefers a space that is not too perfect or too coordinated, and that preference shows in the way the furniture sits apart rather than pressing into a single composition. In this old and new interior, the eye keeps moving from upholstery to wall surface to the edge of the window.<\/p>\n

That mix also comes from a long habit of choosing objects with a past. The small tea table from her parents is one of the pieces she has kept for years, and it carries the memory of a home filled with designs from the 1950s and 1960s. Around it are vintage finds and carefully chosen contemporary pieces. The result is not a display of collecting for its own sake. It feels closer to an everyday arrangement in which each item has earned its place through repetition, touch and use.<\/p>\n

Large windows and the way daylight defines the plan<\/h2>\n

The apartment needs space, and it needs light. That is repeated in the interview and reinforced by the images: broad windows, pale walls and the kind of open volume that lets furniture sit with some distance between it and the next surface. The arched openings interrupt the wall planes and give the rooms a softer edge, but the main impression is still clarity. Daylight reaches the floorboards and then climbs the walls, making the wall art gallery look feel less staged and more like a daily backdrop.<\/p>\n

In the dining and living zones, yellow chairs gather around a table near the window front. The colour is direct, almost matter-of-fact, and it cuts through the calm palette of white, black and wood. A nearby shelving wall holds books and objects, turning storage into part of the composition. This is where the old and new interior becomes most legible: practical pieces, older references and newer forms occupy the same field without being forced into a single style label.<\/p>\n

Arched openings and big windows as a quiet frame<\/h3>\n

The architecture does much of the work here. The arched openings and big windows set the pace of the rooms, and the white trim around doors and walls gives the interior a steady outline. A black leather armchair and footrest sit near a vintage sideboard in one view, with the curve of the opening marking the transition to the next room. These are small shifts, but they matter. They keep the apartment from reading as one large undifferentiated volume.<\/p>\n

That sense of movement is also visible in the way the rooms are linked. You move from a lounge area to a bookshelf zone, then into a more open working and dining arrangement. The surfaces stay restrained: painted walls, wood flooring, a light stone or tiled floor in another part of the apartment, and the occasional textile or cushion. Because the backdrop stays quiet, the furniture and artworks can carry the detail. It is an eclectic old and new interior, but one that stays legible at room scale.<\/p>\n

A home office setup that stays close to the sofa<\/h2>\n

The work corner is not hidden away. It sits inside the living area, with a desk, a lamp and a wall filled with framed prints and photographs. The owner works from home and says a shared office would not suit her. She needs her own environment. That requirement is visible in the room arrangement: a clear place to sit, enough wall space to look up from the desk, and a sofa nearby for slower thinking. It is a calm home office setup, but not a sealed-off one.<\/p>\n

The sofa is part of the work process here. It is used for resting, but also for developing ideas, and that dual use shapes the room\u2019s layout. There is space to sit without being isolated from the rest of the apartment. Books, a lamp, framed images and a plain work surface form a studio work corner that feels lived in rather than staged. The space needs to support concentration, but it also leaves room for pause, which is exactly how the rooms are used.<\/p>\n

Objects that carry memory, travel and craft<\/h3>\n

The story of the interior is also the story of objects brought home from elsewhere. During years of travel to sixteen countries, work went along in the suitcase, and small things came back with it: shoes, a figure, a little matryoshka. A golden teapot from China sits in that same register. It may not have much material value, but it holds a memory of the people she met and the time spent with them. In this old and new interior, those objects behave like notes in a personal archive.<\/p>\n

That attention to memory has roots in her training as well. She learned porcelain turning and glazing in Meissen, then studied graphic design. Later she worked for twenty years as a product designer, created fabrics and began illustrating books. The interview also mentions carpets made in an honest and authentic way, with a story to tell. Those ideas align with the apartment\u2019s material language: not preciousness for its own sake, but objects and surfaces that can carry use, making, and the trace of a hand.<\/p>\n

How the walls become part of the composition<\/h2>\n

Several views turn the walls into active surfaces. One room is organised around a broad shelving unit with books; another around a dense grid of frames and prints. This wall art gallery look does not flatten the space. Instead, it gives each room a rhythm, with the eye hopping from frame to lamp to chair leg to the edge of a doorway. The white walls make that possible. They keep the background open while allowing colour and form to arrive in small, measured doses.<\/p>\n

The apartment\u2019s furniture mix follows the same logic. The purple sofa, the yellow chairs, the black armchair, the wood sideboard and the pale table surfaces do not belong to a single decade, yet they sit naturally together. It is a vintage-modern furniture mix shaped by use, not by category. That is what gives the old and new interior its particular tone: a room that accepts contrast, values memory, and still leaves enough open floor and daylight for work, reading and observation.<\/p>\n

She describes being an observer, and that role is visible in the rooms too. The apartment offers points to sit, look and think, but nothing tries to close the conversation too quickly. People and relationships are central in her work, and the interior mirrors that through objects with histories, windows that pull light deep into the plan, and a home office setup that remains part of daily life rather than separate from it. 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