Side Table with Basalt Stone Base and Stainless Steel Top

About the Design Studio:

Born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, the duo behind Rooms Studio, Nata Janberidze and Keti Toloraia, lean towards preserving the inherited craftsmanship techniques unique to the region.

Massive wood and stone objects are hand-crafted using traditional techniques to create raw and symbolic forms often rooted in the designers’ childhood memories. Growing up in a culturally diverse environment, where the two worlds – Western and Eastern collide, remarkably influenced their design language.

Over the years, Rooms has created eight independent collections and collaborations equally memorable and representative of the duo’s perpetual mission to bring life to omitted elements of a former life. Through their series of works, Janberidze and Toloraia try to examine the boundaries between the public and private. Experiencing adolescent years in the 90s – a significant decade of cultural and societal shifts – their work is a narrative of personal experiences of womanhood. By contrasting the new feminine monumental shapes with architectural brutality, Rooms challenges the status quo and also bridges the conventional and contemporary design with a confluence of female energy.

The work of Rooms Studio has concerned itself with questions of nomenclature since the Tbilisi-based design atelier was co-founded by Nata Janberidze and Keti Toloraia in 2007. Take, for instance, the studio’s name: in adopting the basic unit of interior space as the title of their practice, Janberidze and Toloraia also emphasized the emotional force of interiority and inner life in determining their creative output.