CHARITINI Gkritzali
Master of Advanced Studies IN DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
ECAL University of Art and Design Lausanne
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Product Design / Interior Architecture / Furniture
My location: Athens, Greece
CHARITINI Gkritzali
First Name: CHARITINI
Last Name: Gkritzali
University / College: ECAL University of Art and Design Lausanne
Course / Program: Master of Advanced Studies IN DESIGN FOR LUXURY & CRAFTSMANSHIP
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Product Design / Interior Architecture / Furniture
My Location: Athens, Greece
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About
Charitini Gkritzali is a designer and architect from Athens, Greece. She holds a Master of Advanced Studies in Design for Luxury and Craftsmanship from École Cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ÉCAL), Switzerland. In 2018 she also received a Diploma of Architectural Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and has then taken scenography classes at the National Theater of Greece. To pursue further her interest in design, she worked on high-end design projects for studios and firms based in Athens, Stockholm and Geneva. Her design practice revolves around humans, objects, surrounding spaces and everything in between. Through her unique visual language that is defined by solid geometrical shapes, architectural volumes and harmonious colours, she aims to create stories that balance between the familiar and the extraordinary.
This project is a cinematic approach on the paradox of hotels: they occupy domestic spaces, while being in distance from everyday reality. Hotel Ornament is an extraordinary place for ordinary acts. Its spaces are carefully directed scenes that encompass the guests' activity, thus common actions turn into serious acts that acquire gravity and tension. Diploma Design Dissertation Sculptural volumes and archetypical forms extracted from ordinary spaces of everyday life -such as playgrounds- are mixed in an interplay of scale and perspective. The odd, at first glance, but deeply appealing compositions work as a stage for people that wouldn't have met elsewhere. Studio "Ornament" 2017-2018 Students: Charitini Gritzali, Anna Panourgia Supervisor: Apostolos Kalfopoulos, Assistant Professor School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki