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Lizaveta Odintsova Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for The Larks Cafe Cafe Space in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Lizaveta Odintsova acknowledged for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 21, 2025 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for The Larks Cafe Cafe Space by Lizaveta Odintsova, designed for The Larks Cafe. The award was conferred within the 2024 - 2025 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
About the Bronze A' Design Award
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
About The Larks Cafe Cafe Space
Cafe The Larks is a joyful space for a mindful community who value freedom, sincerity and a taste for life. The premises for this cafe, which serves delicious breakfasts all day with fragrant bread and croissants, are located in the modern Podil Plaza residential complex in Kyiv, Ukraine. The design style concept has several key standing points: pastel shades, graphic in the structural elements, rounded shapes for the furniture and usage of arches. The inspiration came from the name of the space: The Larks Cafe, a bird which symbolizes the hope, light, and joy.
About Lizaveta Odintsova
Lizaveta Odintsova is a mastermind and founder of the interior design studio “Design Buro Odintsova”, which is specialized in commercial interiors. She was born in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia in a family of engineers and musicians. The art heritage and technical master's degree made her career choice predictable. In 2015 Lizaveta accomplished her first design project – an open space office with an area of 1000 m2, for which she received her first Design Award. Today her design studio has over 30 accomplished projects in its portfolio, including a cosmetology clinic, cafes and restaurants, beauty salons, educational institutions, and private homes.
Award Record
Lizaveta Odintsova is a winner of 1 A' Design Award, including this recognition.
About the A' Interior Space, Retail and Exhibition Design Award
The A' Interior Design Award is an international interior design competition recognizing good interior designs by interior designers and architects worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interior designers, interior architects, architects and decorators from all countries. Typical entries include residential interiors, restaurants, hotels, offices, galleries and retail stores. The awarded interior designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interior
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/170302
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/170302
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!170302
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/357502
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://buroodintsova.com.ua/zhajvoronki
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- The Larks Cafe Cafe Space
- Function
- Cafe Space
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Sienna, Dim Gray, Peru, Dark Olive Green and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- The Larks Cafe
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Lizaveta Odintsova
- Country
- Ukraine
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2024 - 2025
- Design ID
- #170302
Credits
- Image Credits
- Serhii Savchenko
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Cafe The Larks is a joyful space for a mindful community who value freedom, sincerity and a taste for life. The premises for this café, which serves delicious breakfasts all day with fragrant bread and croissants, are located in the modern Podil Plaza residential complex in Kyiv, Ukraine. The peculiarity of this project: unusual shape of the space - most of the walls were in the form of glass partitions of a radial shape.
- Inspiration
- The design style concept has several key standing points: pastel shades, graphic in the structural elements, rounded shapes for the furniture and usage of arches. The inspiration came from the name of the space – The Larks Café, a bird which symbolises the hope, light, and joy. Also the lark is “the highest form of human existence” (according to the Ukrainian philosopher Grigoriy Skovoroda).
- Research
- Entering this cafe, you immerse yourself in an atmosphere of freedom and sunny space. There you feel like you belong, in a big city, where everything is created for rest and relaxation.
- Challenge
- A mixture of such modern trends complements the space as: metals (stainless steel), rounded shapes (arches), float glass and a bright ceiling (caramel), light asceticism (nothing superfluous, no decor).
- Realization and Technology
- The design concept was to harmoniously place the technology zone and the landing zone for guests, and all this on a limited space of 50 m2. The project of this format required enormous energy and creativity, so as the making of the most exquisite dessert. The main criteria in the technical design plan was to withstand all the necessary standards - ventilation, insolation, high strength of coatings and environmental friendliness of materials. Therefore, such types of finishes as microcement, self-leveling floor, decorative plaster, tiles and mirrors were chosen.
- Operation and Interaction
- The key colors chosen were shades of caramel and pistachio, combining the colors of sand and gray, which brought everything together into a single composition. The textures of natural materials of concrete, wood and glass gave these interiors naturalness and light, a feeling of purity and lightness of space. The space is complemented by a mixture of such modern trends as: metals (stainless steel), rounded shapes (arches), float glass and a bright ceiling (caramel), light asceticism (nothing superfluous, no decor).
- Project Duration and Location
- Location - Kyiv, Ukraine Duration - 6 months
- Specifications
- The main emphasis was placed on the use of Ukrainian and Scandinavian design brands, such as: LITVINENKO DESIGN STUDIO, Diza, Babich studio, IKEA, Oitoproducts, FurFur, Kononenko ID.
- Keywords
- cafe, beige design, cafe interior, mindful design
