Interior Design: Plan Creative Workspaces
Materials and Colors
A course by Monika Lepel , Interior Designer
About the video: Materials and Colors
Overview
“Space always lives from the material! In this lesson you will learn to compose materials and colors to create distinctive interiors.”
In this video lesson Monika Lepel addresses the topic: Materials and Colors, which is part of the Domestika online course: Interior Design: Plan Creative Workspaces. Design inspiring workspaces by learning to analyze structures, needs, and goals as a starting point for an identity-focused concept.
Partial transcription of the video
“materials and colours Material is decisive for the spatial effect. In this lesson you will learn how to use complex or reduced. When it comes to materials, we always start with the basic equipment of the room with the large areas: wall, ceiling and floor. Wall, ceiling and floor can have different tones. Here we have two examples of soil. They can occur in a project. Carpet and wood. The furnishing of architecture is often also made of exposed concrete or painted surfaces. Undersides of ceilings usually appear darker. In this example you can see that the root contains many soft, natural col...”
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Course summary for: Interior Design: Plan Creative Workspaces
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Architecture, Interior Design, Spatial Design

Monika Lepel
A course by Monika Lepel
Monika Lepel is an interior designer specialized in the design of workspaces. She has been managing the architecture and interior design studio LEPEL & LEPEL, based in Cologne, Germany, for over 25 years. It is there that her and her team bring inspiring interiors to life. With her designs, she aims to find a creative solution to the needs of large organizations and businesses as well as individuals. According to Monika, a space has an inspiring and positive atmosphere when it conveys and aesthetically externalizes a company's culture and identity. Designing spaces like these allows her to promote the formation of ties within a company and develop comprehensive design concepts that are wholly tailored to their users.
Her client list includes big names like Microsoft, Google, True Fruits, and UFA productions. Thanks to their hard work, she and her team have received the German Interior Design Award, the Red Dot Design Award, and the IF Award, and their designs were displayed as part of the exhibition Frau Architekt Seit mehr als 100 Jahren: Frauen im Architekturberuf, on the history of female architects in Germany and Greece. She has also formed part of several judges' panels and has written industry-specialized articles.
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