concept
Mondrian built his canvases from a few straight lines and three colors. Here the lines leave the canvas and run over walls, ceiling and floor, and the colors become a kitchen, a table and a red sofa. The whole room reads as one composition, and the morning happens inside it.
Kitchen
Black counters, yellow edges, and a staircase that doubles as a seat.
Dining
The table is the center of the plan: six chairs, one blue square under them.
Living
A red sofa on a glossy black floor. Here the lines slow down.
Details
The same grammar at a smaller scale.
Set for breakfast
A black table on yellow legs, a pink bowl, a white cup, and a blue square on the floor to stand on.
The idea
Mondrian saw the world, nature and the human as one unity. We see the same unity in a home: kitchen, dining room and living room are one open space. Each has its own function, and none is complete without the others.
Like Mondrian, we use the three primary colors. White and black are the pauses between them: white is active, black is passive. We want an interior you can almost hear.
This is not a "happy" space. Happiness is an emotion, and every emotion comes with its opposite. We aim for bliss instead, a harmony of mind, body and soul. A dance is a form of freedom.
- Type
- Design study, made for living
- Materials
- Epoxy resin, paints
- Bait Venoy, translated from Hebrew
- “Brani & Desi took the passion for art one step further by turning Piet Mondrian’s painting style into a complete design concept.”
In the press
Dezeen, and magazines in Israel, Germany, China and Lebanon, among others.
“Through the lines and the colors, the residents and their guests will feel they are part of the painting.”
Bait Venoy, translated from Hebrew
An apartment is one unity where each space has its own function and is strongly connected to the others.
Bait Venoy, p. 51
The white is active, the black is passive.
Bait Venoy, p. 54
In the dance between forms and colors, white and black are the intervals between them.
Bait Venoy, p. 54
“Through Mondrian’s philosophy we want to show the importance of a living space for a healthy life. To have a healthy life one needs everything for a healthy spirit and body: kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom.”
Bait Venoy, p. 51
A lot of people underestimate the functions of a living space. If just one chair or table is missing, it has a negative impact on body and mind.
Bait Venoy, p. 51
The project makes a bold attempt to use shapes, lines and colors as artistic elements that positively influence the people in the space.
Bait Venoy, pp. 52–53
One unity cannot be a unity without its parts.
Bait Venoy, p. 54
“Mondrian wanted to evoke joy in viewers, so that while they look at the paintings they feel they are dancing.”
Bait Venoy, p. 54
Part of the painting.
“From a conceptual and design point of view, the kitchen, for example, is connected to both the dining room and the living room.”
Bait Venoy, p. 54
“As in nature all the elements are connected … so the designers strove to create strong connections between the different spaces without harming the differentiation that comes from function.”
Bait Venoy, p. 54
“Mondrian saw art as a kind of religion and claimed that people could become better and more spiritual after looking at balanced works. It is interesting whether living in such a colorful space will have a similar effect.”
Bait Venoy, p. 54
“An experimental apartment study that feels like a three-dimensional adaptation of the Dutch painter’s compositions.”
Architectural Digest Germany, translated from German
China · May 2019
Top World Decoration
Pages 164–169.
Lebanon · April–May 2019
Curve
Pages 96–101.
Online
Dezeen
Our first feature there.