Leaves Bedroom by Penint Design Team

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DI: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?

PDT : Autumn leaves. Autumn is a transition between summer's sultry, hot weather and winter's freezing cold. So that we wanted to carry the relaxing and calming effect of autumn to a space like bedroom. We thought that it would be relaxing with spaces' autumn colors for having happier sleeps.

DI: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?

PDT : Majority of people think that bedroom is just for sleeping, dressing and putting on make up. However, we wanted to make bedroom as a living space for providing maximum comfort. Why bedroom couldn't be for drinking coffee while reading your book? Or watching TV as you're lying?

DI: What are your future plans for this award winning design?

PDT : With this award winning design we believe that we're going to approach our designs to bigger audience.

DI: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?

PDT : It took one week to design this project.

DI: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?

PDT : No, it is not produced or used by another company yet. But we're planning to bring it into action in the future.

DI: What made you design this particular type of work?

PDT : The design wasn't made for a specific client, we made this to improve our own design portfolio and positive comments made us to join this competition.

DI: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?

PDT : No there isn't any influence by other designers but the ceramics behind the bed headboard are already produced by a ceramic company called "Mutina".

DI: Who is the target customer for his design?

PDT : We didn't plan to have a target customer for this design but especially just married young couples' are interested in it.

DI: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?

PDT : This design aparts from the others with its' modernization unlike the traditional Turkish bedrooms and providing the user more than a bedroom.

DI: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?

PDT : While searching for a design name, we got inspired from our autumn theme and decided to name it as 'Leaves'.

DI: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?

PDT : Using computer aided design tools such as Autocad, 3dsmax Design, Vray, Corona, Adobe Photoshop are important for us to have realistic visuals in our designs.

DI: What is the most unique aspect of your design?

PDT : We think that usage of unusual materials in bedroom such as wood, concrete, textile and glass makes the design more unique.

DI: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?

PDT : We didn't collaborate with anybody while doing this design, we did every process in our own design team.

DI: What is the role of technology in this particular design?

PDT : While designing process, we took advantage of computer programmes.

DI: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?

PDT : First we heard about the A' Design Award via the e-mail that calls us to package design category we got from A' Design Award members. But as we are interior designers we would like to get involved in a competition from interior design category. 'Leaves' bedroom was one of our favorite designs we would like to join with it.

DI: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?

PDT : First of all, while designing this bedroom we considered the basic design rules. We have searched for the harmony of colorsl, forms and textures.