LUIZA ANYSZKA, M.Sc. Eng. Arch.
I grew up in a home that was truly lived in. I remember the wooden parquet - scratched by my mother's friends dancing on it in heels. The stone worktop - with red wine stains and marks from chopping vegetables. The windowsills where conversations went on for so long that the candles burned down to the end.
My name is Luiza Anyszka and I am an architect. I started designing while still studying at the Warsaw University of Technology - first an internship, then work at architecture studios in Poland (Bed&Breakfast, HRA Architekci, Colombe) and the United Kingdom (HÁM Interiors).
Since 2018 I have specialised in apartment interiors in pre-war tenement houses and historic homes. The kind that bear the traces of history written over the years. When I design them for today, instead of covering them with a layer of fresh paint, I prefer to wipe the dust off them.
My creative manifesto
History
I love designing old interiors. I adore antiques found at flea markets. I value things inherited from ancestors. They already carry memories. They invite you to add your own story. I love the patina on brass, worn thresholds and old fittings, because they show that someone really lived here. In a well-designed home, stories write themselves.
Stone & wood
I love the scratches on a wooden parquet floor - dance your own marks into it.
I keep the stone worktop with a chipped corner - knead dough on it, spill wine and set out the pots.
I save wooden windows with a heritage conservator - keep the character of the pre-war building.
The fullness of everyday life
When the kitchen smells of apple pie cooling on the stone windowsill on a Sunday. When you have dinner with your family, talking at a big oak table, not worrying about the marks left by glasses, because the people around you matter more. When you dance till morning with your friends in heels on the parquet. When you enjoy the moment. When you feel that everything is in its place. And that this is your place.
What do I love in interiors?
When I am inside a pre-war tenement house, an old house with a garden or a crumbling manor, I feel as if I am travelling back in time.
I feel as though I have something in common with the past, with 18th-century England or with interwar Poland. Modern buildings and white-and-grey furniture don't move me. I like it when architecture and design bring out emotion, a smile, a longing.
So, if you also see value in what is old and unique, prefer repairing to replacing,
and value cosiness, usefulness and calm at home - let's start working together.
