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Featuring: Tatjana von Stein & Gayle Noonan with Sella Concept
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Through the work of their London design studio Sella Concept, Tatjana von Stein and Gayle Noonan have become known for creating interiors, installations and branding concepts that have a certain air of comfort, warmth and wanting-to-be that comes with the very best interior design projects. They're special, basically.
What are the key ingredients to creating communal space?
Gayle Noonan: What are communal spaces anyway? They’re places where people breakout in search of less confined, rigid or prescribed areas to exist in. They need to offer something that you can’t quite put your finger on – but you know you’d rather work from “there, for a while”.
So what intrigues you about spaces and how people interact with them?
Tatjana von Stein: We are all looking for different experiences, from our daily routines to special occasions. Sometimes the tone is perfectly set, sometimes spaces feel too prescribed, and other times we surprise ourselves in the most unforgiving of places. It excites me to think of someone’s journey and how we can incentivise behaviour; how we can somehow reach an overarching atmosphere that transcends people’s culture and personalities through a gentle flow and thought-through design details.
Why do you believe a space is so important to creativity?
TVS: In London a lot of creative spaces are set through art, seating flexibility, casual atmospheres and palpable inspiration. We all find our individual spaces that inspire us to think and create, we do our best to help encourage it depending on the audience at hand.
What was the item in your home you could not live without?
TVS: An old plantation chair, it’s been with us forever, it’s become an old friend and sat in the corner when we didn’t have the space to use it or properly place it in.
The design project I am most proud of is…
TVS: Omar’s Place, we really considered and designed every millimetre with so much love and detail. We were also lucky enough to get an incredible worldly recognition for the project…passion for design goes a long way. That’s all there is to it.
Your favourite Instagram accounts at the moment are..
TVS & GN: @EmilyForgot, Emily is a friend and designer we highly respect.
@Teaaalexis – Alexis Christodoulou is a 3D visualiser who shares our love of curves and spheres.
Keep up to date with Sella Concept by following the pair on Instagram, @Sella.Concept and for even more interior inspiration, check out the revolving door and open-plan of this Tokyo apartment.
