Interview with Hanna Bajer and Pawel Sokol

First Exitdesign, now we changed the name for our personal name - BAJERSOKOL - the name from our names. For over 20 years we made our style, and we choose our materials, details and colours - now it is our recognizable look. We are not so innovative studio, but we create cozy and luxurius interiors. We want to create space, when You can rest.

Matter of humanity. Without sense of art we are only machines - so I think, without your own space with harmony and art You are not fully happy - You cannot be...

All - full private interiors of houses or apartments are what we love to do - we love to create harmony, so all the details shoud work together, also furniture, or materials, or art - Fully designed interior can let you rest after work.

Hard to tell - BAJERSOKOL has very visible style - and we try to create very individual but "our" interior. So every client have his own memories, details, art or pictures, and it makes is individual - so every each project is new one to make. But still in our style :-)

Small butique - what is interesting - it is still open, and client didn't change a thing... and still looks fine.

All what is natural - wallpapers, wood, marble, limestone... We hate visible ugly stuff, so we must hide all what is not decorative in our project.

In the silence... somewhere out of the office - it can be foreign city, or forrest, or gallery... At work is ...work. So hard to have enough space to design.

Harmony - always - it is the most important - to create space filled with stuff but all must be designed and or shown, or hidden - all must work together.

calm... It cannot be rush, I hate to make a design for "yesterday"

Mostly - satisfaction - 90% of our projects we do in whole process, so we have a control on everything, and we try to deliver it like a visualisation to our client. What we do not like is to give anly the plans to the client and look how he do it by himself - mostly it doesn't look good - than we feel like a waste of time to prepare such project.

Cooperation and understanding - mostly our clients belive in our process, so we can finish it like we plan and designed it - so it makes it completed.

The same word - harmony. All should match and fit :-)

I hate when people throw out new stuff, only becouse they have a year or two... We make not fashionable interiors, so people feel good in them long time, and use them normaly. We hate fake products, fake materials, so we do not put them in our projects.

I hope - 2nd hand - reuse, and recycle.

As a ID we do not have private exhibitions, and we do not plan such.

Just like I said - we are not so innovate designers - so we define the design of BAJERSOKOL like we like it, and what we feel the best - nature, harmony, calm,

Like above - once again harmony, luxury, cosy, high quality, timeless.

Poland - capital city - Warsaw. It is hard to search for our national design. Not in interiors - so our is universal one :-)

We have many friends in our industy - many dealers, producers, designers - we work with then all the time and it is good family of our design.

All of us are profesionals in our field, so without understanding and respect none of us will work well. So must cooperate to deliver good project to our client.

Like I said - mostly 90% of our interiors we deliver fully finished, so we start from drawing the plans, than 3d visualisations, than technical drawings, moodboards, pricelists, and after finishing the project we coordinate to finish full interior to our client.

art, art, art, art, and some Eames furniture.

Coffee, work, work, work, walk with our dog Zora, tennis, red vine with out friends, some tv series... and sleep.

Tik-Tok won't work for a long time. The most important is to be honest with yourself and for a loooong time be consequent!

Negative - I don't see them. Positive - You create the beauty! You make the world less borring.

harmony :-)

See The World different - Your way. New way!

Some time ago - it was the pinterst, but now - more and more I know what we feel, so the inside feeling is the most important.

After 20 years NOW we have a time to stop and slowdown, but there must be a hard work first. Now we have a good clients, and very good team - it easier.

4-12 months. We talk about an apartment or house.

PRICE, and WHEN - I hate them?

Very difficult clients - very complicated interiors - hard details - I love them.

One of the most wealthy polish citizens. Not famous :-)

Now - technical drawings - we have a new blood in our office responsible for the look and new design - I love to solve them and make them happend

House in Italy - That is IT!

We have a small but very high quality team of 12 people.

Not... Few, but all of them will be beautifull to show and prise :-)

By email: pawel@bajersokol.pl is the best way.

After this 20 years of work and creating BAJERSOKOL we made one of the best design offices in Poland, and we have a lot of projests in other countries - so we love to work and create "our" projects. NJOY.