A Polish apartment is designed as a creative mise en place for a culinary blogger.
Warsaw-based food blogger and bestselling author Michał Korkosz has amassed more than 800,000 followers under the name ‘Rozkoszny’, which means ‘delightful’ in Polish. Rozkoszny isn’t just about the dishes Korkosz creates with a plant-based bent, but the cultural experiences, memories and vivid aesthetic that render his entire culinary universe so popular.
Korkosz contacted Marcin Czopek, founder of interior design studio Mistovia, based in Katowice, Poland, to design his apartment. He wanted to translate his uplifting-the-everyday approach to cooking into a home that would also double as his recording studio.
The 65-square-metre apartment sits opposite a former factory in Warsaw’s Praga-Północ district, an area Korkosz gravitated towards for its local markets, cafes, and confluence of modern developments and tenement homes. “Korkosz deliberately chose this location because it combines tradition and modernity, inspiration and comfort,” Czopek says, adding that the opportunity to work in a new building offered a lot of design freedom. “We demolished most of the walls, creating a cohesive space, excluding the bathroom and bedroom,” he says. “We weren’t looking for any references here.”
The apartment is entirely open plan, with just the bedroom and bathroom separate. Curved edges soften transitions, designed to conceal uneven walls and awkwardly positioned chimney flues, such as the wavy line of joinery in the kitchen. Curtains in shades of peach, tangerine and burnt orange—each with a different opacity—temper natural light.
