Blueberry Nights hotel makes “people feel like they’re inside a movie”
Georgian architect Sandro Takaishvili has transformed an condominium making in Tbilisi into a lodge, with interiors informed by his adore of cinema and movie projectors in all 16 rooms.
Getting more than three storeys earlier mentioned a restaurant in the capital’s Vera neighbourhood, the Blueberry Nights resort functions a theatrical color scheme, Japanese furnishings and moody lighting.
“The style and design of the lodge is the end result of my full life’s usage of film,” the hotel’s co-founder Sandro Takaishvili advised Dezeen.
“My intention is to make people truly feel like they’re within a motion picture, the place everything feels a little bit common but otherworldly at the very same time,” explained the architect, who previously labored as a established designer, filmmaker and photographer.
The hotel was named just after My Blueberry Nights – a movie by Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai – and incorporates visible references to the operate of other renowned directors like Stanley Kubrick.
The most important lobby was designed to glimpse and feel like a cosy cinema lobby, full with darkish blue carpeting, walnut wood household furniture and seating upholstered in velvet. Guests can look at in at a big reception desk fronted in plexiglass that was motivated by retro-futuristic movies.
“From the second company move by way of the doors, a moody cinematic journey starts with dark blue carpets, downlights and a comfortable soundtrack of noir movie dialogues participating in in the lobby,” Takaishvili reported.
As portion of the renovation, Takaishvili transformed the building’s attic into two additional guestrooms, for a total of 16 rooms.
The bedrooms were being designed to evoke the visual design of David Lynch, with custom-produced very low-slung beds and walnut-veneer cupboards. Space dividers punctured by massive circular openings had been utilised to mark various zones inside the rooms.
The heat wood household furniture is offset by splashes of pink – in the form of vintage telephones, artwork and window shutters manufactured from medium-density fibreboard (MDF) – as perfectly as the white tiles applied in the small en-suite bathrooms.
Other bedroom decor consists of lamps with Noguchi-model paper shades, which Takaishvili imported from Japan, and teak-and-cane chairs by architect Pierre Jeanneret, which were being sourced from London.
“The paper lights give off a gentle luminescent outcome that results in a cosy atmosphere,” the architect spelled out.
“Some of the very simple geometric varieties that I utilized certainly have a mid-century impact but I was not hoping to be stylish. I just wished to attain a cinematic influence with out resorting to noticeable motion picture gimmicks.”
Just one wall was remaining blank in each and every space so that visitors can observe motion pictures by way of a sensible projector, while audio can be performed by way of a assortment of vinyl records.
Other inside assignments in Tbilisi include a bookstore-cum-cafe by Georgian designer Lado Lomitashvili and the Stamba Lodge, which occupies the former headquarters of a Soviet printing push.
The photography is courtesy of Blueberry Evenings.