Not every wall is straightforward, and not every room calls for an off the shelf solution.
In this particular project, the team at The Artizen were redesigning an entire kitchen, a full story explored elsewhere on the Artizen website, but one of its defining moments came through a single commissioned artwork.
As always, the design began with art.
The challenge was a dramatic architectural gap above the kitchen, a large elevated space framed by beams and height that needed anchoring visually. It called for something that would do more than fill a wall. It needed to hold the room together, capture the colours of the scheme, create a focal point visible from afar, and feel completely at home within a characterful period property.
Nothing ready made felt right.
That is where commission became the answer.
Andreea proposed something that had not been done before in this way, a bespoke abstract by Alison Johnson installed at a forty five degree angle. It was an unconventional idea and one that required real trust from the client, because it involved not only artistic vision but practical considerations too, from hanging position to scale and the physical challenge of suspending a six foot artwork across such a unique architectural setting.
But sometimes the most successful design decisions begin by thinking beyond convention.
”We could never have found this piece ready made. It feels as though it was always meant for this room.
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Alison created a beautiful abstract seascape, layered with tones drawn directly from the interior palette Andreea had established for the room. Hung dramatically from corner to corner, the piece echoed the movement of the beams, responded to the light running through the architecture, and brought an extraordinary sense of dimension and presence to the space.
Rather than competing with the architecture, it elevated it.
That was the brilliance of the commission. It was not simply an artwork chosen to fit a space. It was a piece conceived specifically for a room no ordinary artwork could have resolved.
It became the heart of the kitchen.
Viewed from afar, it anchors the room. Up close, it reveals texture, movement and colour. And together with the beams and architecture, it creates something that feels entirely unique to the property.
This project is a wonderful example of why commission can be so powerful. Sometimes the right artwork cannot be found because it does not yet exist.
Sometimes it has to be imagined first.
And sometimes taking that leap into the unknown creates exactly the piece a room has been waiting for.
