Giving
spaces life
The art of creating
atmospheres
Interior designInterior design
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May 23, 2024
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Illustration by
AllesWirdGut
Visualization by
AllesWirdGut
Photos by
AllesWirdGut (material collage)
DERFRITZ (HOP before)
Guilherme Silva da Rosa (MHF, HOP)
Lisa Edi (moods)
tschinkersten fotografie
(BVB, KAN, MTH, ONB, WDW)
Giving rooms life—centering on: the human. AllesWirdGut understands the design of spaces to live in to be more than just the planning of architectural envelopes around them. Skillful deployment and combination of different materials, surfaces and furnishings, as well as customized detailing are essential to give interiors not only functionality but also atmosphere. We focus on the human experience. It’s all about well-being, comfort, and sensuousness. This is not a luxury, but a fundamental right. After all, we spend more than 90% of our lives inside buildings. Interior design therefore is about a lot more than just choosing materials and pieces of furniture. Our highest objective is to enrich and improve life through our work. We consider well-devised, high-quality designs a fundamental ambition. It is our task and responsibility to create spaces that enrich, inspire, and please.
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alles isst gut – The canteen of AllesWirdGut, 2018
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Strong concepts: All our designs are based on a strong underlying idea that gives creatively informs each project. It underpins every single design decision in order to give the project a depth that makes it unique. This process always begins with extensive research into the history and origins of the location as well as the nature of the task. By viewing ourselves as storytellers, we give our projects a distinctive identity and create spaces that are not only aesthetically pleasing, but also authentic and memorable.
Culture in synergy with architecture. Research is a crucial part of our design process: whether it is formal research, material studies or primarily an exploration of a wide range of cultural influences. We find our inspiration in various cultural areas: for example, in theater, film, art, on platforms like Instagram, through travel, or through emotional connections. Influences from different cultural contexts enrich and inform our projects. This broad gamut of inspirations from different areas of life enables us to develop unique and complex designs and unfold special atmospheres.
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Our projects tell stories.
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Creative versatility produces unique projects. For us, every project is a singular unique opportunity to bring our creativity to bear. With openness and curiosity, we approach every design, every space, and every piece of furniture, developing customized proposals that meet the specific individual requirements of users and clients. Our goal is to create something unique in every project, even if the foundations of (interior) design remain fundamentally the same. We take our inspiration from existing ideas, but always seek innovative takes and fresh ideas. This philosophy underlies all dimensions of our work, from the smallest detail to the planning of entire urban neighborhoods.
Simply beautiful: spaces with character. Our central concern is to create spaces that are not just functional but also aesthetically pleasing. We want to make the world a more beautiful place so as to make the life of the people who live, work, go shopping, or go out to eat in it, richer. Minimalist design sometimes makes the world and its culture look impoverished. Our spatial interventions are meant to be unique and different from fashionable globalized design languages. We therefore like to draw on traditional and local elements and place great emphasis on the specifics of context and content to create authentic atmospheres: colors, shapes, materials, and lighting that are not only to be seen but to be experienced. Each element and chosen and combined with a love for detail to create a harmonious, inspiring and sensuous environment.
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MHF – Revitalized Dairy Farmhouse Esterházy Meierhof, Trausdorf (AT)
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WDW – Retail Design waterdrop®, Cologne (DE)
In harmony with what is around. Any respectful approach to architecture for us starts from a profound understanding of the “genius loci,” the unique soul that every place has. Our aim is to appreciate the context and, through our design, find a harmonious and fitting response to what already exists. In doing so, we are often guided by the history of the location or building, which provides us with valuable clues and clear direction for our projects. This is the way to create architecture that not only works, but also connects with its surroundings on a deeper level.
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HOP – magdas Hotel, Wien (AT) / The former premises of a retirement home from the 1960s with a collection of furniture – ready to upcycle and reuse.
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Renew and transform. Expert conversion of existing structure leads to buildings with an unmistakable identity. For AllesWirdGut, this not only involves modernization of a building, but also a careful analysis of ecological, social and economic aspects. Every building has its own history and special characteristics to be considered, uncovered, and retold. Not uncommonly, existing buildings have long been part of the urban or rural fabric, contributing to defining the very identity of a place.
Conservation and revitalization preserve the cultural and historical substance and raise it to a new level, in particular if a building’s history goes back only a few decades. A sensitive (re)designing of old and more recent structures with concomitant integration of contemporary elements makes something new emerge—a dialog between the existing and the new unfolds with the potential to be enriching for both sides.
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An oasis of tranquility in the modernized Mühltalhof, Neufelden (AT) – sensual, minimalist, atmospheric
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Less is too little, more is too much. We firmly believe that every project should only comprise those elements that are in fact essential to, and fundamentally enhance, that project, without lapsing into minimalism. It is an approach informed not only by principles of sustainability and economic resource efficiency but also by our pursuit of functional beauty.
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