Yellow bathroom with sinks, a bench and a bath facing the sea

Move across the sand to clear it.

Oasis in a sandstorm

Stillness found in the heart of the storm.

A bedroom and a bathroom, 40 m². Gemelli Design Studio, now Brani & Desi.

Two rooms, one breath,and a fire in between

Yellow, hot as sand and sun, takes the bathroom, so that the bathroom becomes the oasis and everything else becomes desert.

Nothing but colour, a glass wall and a fireplace divides them. The fire stands in the middle, visible from both sides: warmth for the bed, warmth for the bath.

A bedroom and a bathroom in forty square metres, with one job: to let every sense switch off.

Purple takes the bedroom.

Yellow: the oasis

In the bathroom there are two sinks, a small round one and a long wide one, for different rituals; a console bidet and a standing toilet; and the bath beside the window, facing the sea. It is a room for quiet conversation.

Yellow bathroom wall with round and rectangular mirrors, two sinks and a golden sphere

The long wall: two sinks, a round mirror, a sphere of sun.

Bench beside the bath with a window to the sea, yellow textured walls

The bench by the bath, facing the sea.

Through the glass wall: sinks, bench and the bath with sea-blue water

Through the glass: sinks, bench, and the bath.

Bath in the foreground, glass shower, fireplace and sinks in one view

Bath, shower and fire in one view.

Bath at the sea window with the shower and the fireplace behind glass

The bath at the window, the shower beside it.

Quiet conversations.

While one is taking a bath, another is having a glass of wine on the bench, enjoying the fireplace.

Fire & glass

A fireplace and a glass wall are the only things between the two rooms.

Fireplace between bathroom and bedroom, seen through the glass wall

The fireplace, seen from the bathroom.

White column with a purple edge, fireplace and reflections of the yellow bathroom

Fire, glass and a purple column.

The bathroom from above, bath, bench and the fireplace beyond

From above: one floor, two moods.

Shower and bath with the bedroom reflected in the glass

Shower and bath; the bedroom behind the glass.

A fire between two rooms.

Purple: the dream

The colour of imagination and spirituality, for a bedroom where the senses switch off.

Purple bedroom with a faceted mirror, bed and a yellow floor line

The bedroom: purple for imagination.

Bed in the foreground, mirror and fireplace across the room

Bed, mirror, and the fire across the room.

“The widest bathroom in the world.”

So it was called in 2012. Oasis in a Sandstorm was the first of our projects to be published outside Bulgaria on a magazine’s own initiative. Many more publications followed.

In print

bg magazine, in Spanish, gave the project a spread under the title an oasis in a sandstorm, pages 92–94, credited to the designers Branimira Ivanova and Desislava Ivanova.

Tap a page to enlarge.

Opening spread in bg magazine: Gemelli Design Studio, an oasis in a sandstorm, pages 92 to 93

Page 94 of bg magazine with the credits for Branimira and Desislava Ivanova

Design: Branimira & Desislava Ivanova
Studio then: Gemelli Design Studio
Brief: A bedroom and a bathroom, 40 m²
Palette: Yellow, purple, white

All works