Tête-à-Tête with Tinatin Kilaberidge
High End Weekly™: Who were your favorite designers from the modernist movement?
Tinatin Kilaberidze: Charles and Ray Eames, Eileen Gray. Jean Prouve for his unvarnished industrial and very chick look, opposite to him Jean Royere for Luxury modernist design, Jacques Adnet and Gio Ponti.
HEW: Your participation in the Holiday House last year created a buzz. It was pretty obvious that you liked your interiors clean, and modern, and that you also have a flair for using decorative arts. Tell me about the concept behind this particular project.
TK: The inspiration behind the Holiday House was to create the world I raised my daughter in, the room was dedicated to her. It was also about appreciation for nature and the objects of our daily lives. My goal was to bring the magic of Christmas eve. The idea was to bring the forest, animals, and moon into the room, and at the same time, lose the boundaries between reality and fantasy. It was about creating the right mood. The room had a decisive aura of mystery and excitement.
HEW: How do you view fashion as it relates to your design work? Are you influenced by it?
TK: Fashion is something I loved ever since I was a young girl, and after high school, I wanted to pursue it, but first, I went to University and after six years of studies, and obtaining a degree in literature, I decided interior design was something I wanted to study. I did this for another five years. I was lucky enough to work in the fashion industry in Italy for a several years.
“Fashion has always excited me, but it does not influence my work as an interior designer. At least not in a direct way. However, it does impel me to move in ways which make me realize how fast life moves forward.” Tinatin Kilaberidge
HEW: How do you see design evolving in the next five years?
TK: Design in the next five years will be very different, but not as much as in the next ten years per se. Our lifestyles will change so radically, and we’ll need toreview the way we use our interiors. New technologies, virtual reality, and high-speed travel will change our needs to test the importance we place in the materials we surround ourselves with.
I am positive about striking a good balance, and believe that we are capable of keeping the best of the past, and embrace the fast coming future with its forms of design and changes in values, if we strike a good balance. I am very excited about that. The future I mean.
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