INTERIOR FEATURE
THE ROCK
INTERIOR DESIGN: PREMIERE DESIGN STUDIO | PHOTOGRAPHY: PIERRE BASSANI
Interior design firm, Premiere Design Studio( Premiere), was appointed to carry out the architectural design detailing and implementation co-ordination for the The Rock and Carnelian at The Rock at the Design Quarter in Fourways.
Brief The brief was to design something totally different to what has been seen in South Africa before. The designers worked together with a designer from Greece – Alex Nicolaou of Workroom 2 – who put together the design concept which formed the basis of the theme. The mandate was to work with Alex and make sure that architecturally this concept would work in the space, not only spatially, but also from an aesthetic, maintenance and operational point of view for the South African market.
Together with the exceptionally experienced client, the design team managed to pull this off. Communicating via Skype with Alex and exchanging ideas and solutions, they arrived at a great design concept that would now need to be developed by Premiere Design Studio into a workable and architecturally sound interior.
Parallel to this, Tarryn Fisher from Breezewood Interiors worked on using locally sourced items, furniture and light fittings to assist the concepts in becoming a reality on site. Premiere’ s next port-of-call was all the architectural construction drawings and documents that would form the basis of the costing and the final interior build. During this phase much design development was required and the Premiere designers finalised all design challenges that the existing site presented them with.
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