Studio: Formafatal
Author: Dagmar Štěpánová, Dana Szabó
Client: Viktor & Petra Hanzlík
Project location: Prague
Project country: Czech Republic
Completion year: 2020
Usable Floor Area: 142 m²
Photographer: BoysPlayNice
General contractor: GIGA-Line
General contractor & Interior production: INTER PRO CZ
Cement screed realization: Different Design [Pavel Trousil] Stone tiling realization: JEŽ kamenictví
Sound system: Jiří Palan / Top Hifi Europe

About Studio

We are a team of friends – architects, designers and set designers. A creative studio focusing on architecture, interior design, exhibition installations, and product design. Estudio Formafatal was founded by the architect Dagmar Štěpánová and the team currently consists of Dagmar together with Katarína, Jan, Iveta, Dana, Anna, Debora, Petra and Lucie.

The team of ten professionals is currently working on various commercial and residential projects not so much in the Czech Republic, but in the rest of the world. Estudio Forma Fatal has already won several national and international awards for its interior design projects already completed.

We create public spaces in which we want people to feel at home, we design homes that adapt to clients. We approach all projects focusing on the needs of people. We base our individual approach to each project on mutual understanding with the client, enthusiasm, natural cooperation and unified conceptual solutions.

We solve projects in an integral way from the creative concept to the implementation, with an emphasis on details. For us our work means life and passion. In our projects we often cooperate with other artists as we love to support talented people; together with them we create original and innovative spaces that enrich society.

The emphasis on sustainability is something basic in our projects. In our approach to architecture, we also consider and accentuate historical values that we always try to preserve.

This apartment was designed with a five-star standard and luxurious surroundings in mind.

The living room contains colorful decor, art, and an eclectic vibe.

This apartment features aesthetic appeal, organization, comfort, elegance, and traditional classic design.

The furniture's color scheme in relation to the paintings that the clients intended to hang in the room. — The furniture’s color scheme in relation to the paintings that the clients intended to hang in the room.

A concrete screed combined with marble in the kitchen.

In order to gain appeal and originality, styles are contrasted and combined, with a focus on comfort and utility.

The entire realization was supposed to be a fusion of materials and styles.

The furniture throughout the entire apartment is a mix of pieces that were specially built and standard pieces.

The bedroom is designed simply but elegantly.

It is comfortable to live in this apartment.

Velvet combined with a chair's contemporary, classic design. — Velvet combined with a chair’s contemporary, classic design.

This placed an emphasis on comfort and the best surfaces and materials possible.

This location is where the restroom is located.

Cement tiles, onyx, and unique patterns on the mirrors are all found in the bathroom.

The primary building material in this area was cement.

This produces a gradient fog-like transition from matte to clear.

Mirrors in the bathroom have unique nanotechnology prints on them.

The cabinets in this roomy bathroom are made of wood and glass.

It features lights that create an upscale atmosphere.

A large flat in an apartment building from the first half of the 20th century in the center of Prague. The apartment is for a young family with two small children. The clients did not want to change the layout of the apartment, but the rest was a complete reconstruction, including all surfaces.

Given the fact that the owner is a successful manager who travels a lot around the world and feels good in hotels, his idea was based on the comfort of hotels and their style – a five-star standard, surrounded by luxury. The wife, who studied in London, was very inclined to an elegant English style. Nevertheless, they both love art, colors and an eclectic mood.

Aesthetics, neatness, comfort, elegance, classic traditional style. The owners emphasized comfort and the highest quality of surfaces and materials used. We aimed to combine three basic principles of the assignment – comfort, which comes from the hotel; elegant aesthetics based on London; colors and eclecticism at the client’s request.

We chose the colors of the furniture in connection with the paintings that the clients wanted to incorporate into the apartment. We deliberately contrast styles and combine them to gain glance and originality. All with an emphasis on practicality and comfort

By breaking through the wall, we decided to create larger space between the main living room and the library, which also serves as the owner’s office and at the same time we wanted to fit in the wooden door trim a data projector screen. We insisted on breaking through the wall because of the visual connection – but it was very demanding in terms of statics. The whole realization was intended as combination of styles and materials.

Velvet in combination with a modern timeless shape of the chair. Onyx in the bathroom combined with cement tiles and special prints on the mirrors, marble in the kitchen in combination with a concrete screed. The bathroom has mirrors with special nanotechnology-prints, which creates a transition from matte to clear, kind of gradient fog.

In the living area dominates modular sofa TOGO by Ligne Roset from corduroy. The floors are cement tiles and in areas where there were wooden floors, we sanded and refurbished them. In the whole flat, you can find a combination of custom-made and ordinary furniture.