Interior Design
Penthouse above the Coglone Skyline
The penthouse follows a consistently reduced spatial approach centered on clarity, calmness, and conscious attention. Architecture and interior design are not understood as decorative staging, but as restrained backgrounds for art, everyday life, and personal objects.
The design is based on a continuous order of clear geometries, precise proportions, and monochrome surfaces. The spaces are intentionally kept calm, allowing selected artworks, collector’s pieces, and personal belongings to unfold their presence without visual competition.
The work of Felix Schwake fully integrates all functional requirements of everyday life into the architecture of the furniture itself. Technology, storage, and organizational functions visually recede into the background, enabling an exceptionally ordered spatial atmosphere.
Within the bedroom, workspace, and living area, the objects consolidate all necessary functions within their interiors. Screens, hi-fi systems, cables, work materials, and technical infrastructure remain invisibly integrated while still being immediately accessible.
The retractable screen emerging from the desk, the fully integrated hi-fi system within the TV sideboard, and the technical storage drawers of the bed all follow the same design principle: technology should remain usable without permanently demanding spatial attention.
The entirely white color concept further intensifies the spatial calmness. The high-gloss surfaces reflect light, color, and atmosphere throughout the space, creating a distinctive lightness of the objects. As a result, the furniture appears less as heavy individual volumes and more as part of a coherent spatial order.
The design consciously follows an almost museum-like restraint. The furniture itself is not intended to dominate; instead, emphasis is placed on the atmosphere of the space and on those objects to which conscious attention is given.
Materiality, light reflection, and proportion are of central importance. The spatial effect emerges not through decorative complexity, but through precision, reduction, and the careful integration of functional requirements.
The project exemplifies the position of Felix Schwake between architecture, interior design, and functional art: spaces should enable calmness, support concentration, and provide life with a clear spatial background.