Ecletic Kitchens
Two kitchen concepts developed for the Woodeco interior of the year competition. Each built around a distinct material logic and spatial mood.
Client
Woodeco competion
Location
Poland
Year
2026
Services
Interior Design / Visualisation / Creative Direction
The brief was a kitchen. The real question was what kind of room a kitchen can be, and how far material choices can stretch a space from functional to genuinely felt. Two answers. Two different ideas about warmth, colour, and what wood does when you push it.
Two kitchens. Two distinct material arguments.
The first kitchen is built on warmth accumulated in layers — ochre walls, terracotta floor, cream cabinetry, a circular black island that anchors the room. A chrome tube pendant cuts through the warmth with a harder edge. The material board reads like a Mediterranean palette pushed through a classical filter: brick tile, dark oak, ivory moulding, black marble. Everything chosen to age well and look better under afternoon light.
The second kitchen makes a different argument. Oak panelling with blue star inlays, a curved burgundy arch, salmon cabinetry, two red sconces that project concentric rings of light onto the walls. Bold and graphic where the first is warm and layered. The material board is a colour exercise — navy, cognac, powder blue, terracotta — held together by the wood grain that runs through everything. A room that knows exactly what it wants to look like.
A wide material palette isn't about choice. It's about permission to combine things that shouldn't work until they do.
Two rooms, one question: what does a kitchen become when material is treated as the architecture?
