Preview - Hand-Built in Belgrade

I am, first of all, a furniture maker. The interiors came later, when clients who bought my pieces started asking me to design the rooms they would live in. I accepted reluctantly. I have come to understand that the two practices are inseparable — you cannot design a room without understanding how objects are made.

This apartment belonged to a retired engineer who collected mid-century Yugoslav design. He wanted a setting that would honour that collection without turning his home into a museum. Everything I made for him — the shelving, the kitchen, the bed frame, the dining table — was designed to recede. The kitchen took fourteen weeks to build, from walnut that had been drying in my workshop for six years.

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