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Chalk Private Apartament by Hanka Bajer and Pawel Sokol Wins the Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design
Hanka Bajer and Pawel Sokol acknowledged for interior space and exhibition design by the international grand jury of the 2025 - 2026 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2026 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Silver A' Design Award in the Interior Space and Exhibition Design category for Chalk Private Apartament by Hanka Bajer and Pawel Sokol, designed for Bajer Sokol Team. The result belongs to the 2025 - 2026 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 Silver A' Design Award
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About Chalk Private Apartament
Chalk is a private apartment interior located on the fourth floor of a contemporary residential building in central Warsaw. The apartment covers an area of 340 square meters. Natural materials define the interior, including wood, stone, raw steel and fabric. The same materials are repeated in every space, creating a harmonious, light and cosy atmosphere. A small number of contrasting elements, such as artworks, provide visual accents. Bespoke details were designed for the project. The interior follows the functional and aesthetic requirements set by the client.
About Hanka Bajer and Pawel Sokol
Pawel is experienced interior architect. In 2017 with few other ID architects from Poland he sets SAW - Polish Interior Design Society. That means, ID issues are very important to him. He cares about the highest level of this service in Poland. EXITdesign and BAJERSOKOL team achived many polish and foreign awards for his and his wifes works with which he runs BAJERSOKOL team. Now after over 20 years in work he has the opinion of one of the best Polish ID.
Award Record
This recognition makes Hanka Bajer and Pawel Sokol a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
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/172980
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/172980
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!172980
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/327346
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Chalk Private Apartament
- Function
- Private Apartament
- Category
- Interior Space and Exhibition Design
- Discipline
- Spatial Design
- Industry
- Architecture and Packaging & Retail
- Colors
- Gray, Dim Gray, Rosy Brown, Dark Gray and Dark Olive Green
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Bajer Sokol Team
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Hanka Bajer and Pawel Sokol
- Country
- Poland
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2025 - 2026
- Design ID
- #172980
Credits
- Image Credits
- Photographer: Tom Kurek
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- This modern apartment, with an area of 340 m², is located on the 4th floor of a contemporary residential building in the heart of Warsaw. The client precisely defined their functional and aesthetic expectations, and their non-interference during the execution process resulted in an interior that perfectly meets their requirements.
- Inspiration
- The client was very precise in design he want to oreder in our office - he wanted to have modern, cosy and light interior with maximum of natural materials as wood, stone, raw steel and fabric. The is only few contrast elements also like art by Agata Hecman and Worpus. Every space has the same materials and it makes it very harmonic.
- Research
- In our team we mostly work with the same team of companies, so again they made the perfect effect.
- Challenge
- The project was easy to proceed, couse we recived empty space with perfect views and really good client - so this process was really positive.
- Realization and Technology
- our office is known as a high quality bespoke interior design office, so we use our designed details and materials as wood, steel or stone.
- Operation and Interaction
- The client was almost perfect - the process with him was very easy, couse he at start told us what he wanted and how much money he wanted to spend on this.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project took about 5 months and realisation about 10 months to compete it in january 2025.
- Keywords
- modern, contemporary, luxury, natural, cosy
