Ljubica Jovanović – Architect – Designer designing reality into fantasyljubica.jovanovic.aenax@gmail.com
furniture design
We Grow Furniture
Stylish outdoor furniture – it grows anyway you shape it! On an easy-to-shape supporting structure, the furniture grows and blooms, making a unique comfy sofa for your back yard. If we can make animals this way, why not furniture?
Pharmacy Store Interior
The client had bought the unbuilt commercial space for their pharmacy store years ago, however, when it was finally built it was not quite what they hoped for and they came to us to ask for a solution to the problem – there was no space! Stairs, apart from being a necessary functional element, can [...]
House in the country
Countryside house surrounded by the arboretum’s lush landscape, in a village called Mrcajevci in Serbia. The project is ordered by my mom, and the design was made so that she enjoys it. Click image for enlargement.
Chairs – Animally
Once again, animals were my inspiration for furniture design. The essence of three animals, dolphin, parrot and serpent, were copied and woven into chairs by the rule of emphasizing either geometry (done in the dolphin and serpent chair) or texture (parrot chair), while leaving the other as a draft. That is my way to avoid overdesigned [...]
Contemporary Apartment – Redesigned in Onyx
The apartment is located in a residential building in Uzice, west Serbia. Originally this was just a half of a large apartment, and its previous owner divided it into two since it was easier to sell. My clients now own a small apartment with a large bedroom, bathroom and zig-zag walls separating them from their [...]
Ash Dining Set
Another example of design inspired by a mythical creature, phoenix the fire bird. ‘Ash’ refers to two things here. The first is the direct association based on the gray materials and lightweight organic forms, as if the ash was floating around, carried by the wind. The second is physical and logical connection to the Phoenix [...]
Phoenix Bedroom
Mythology has always been my endless inspiration – especially for design – and phoenix is one of my favorite motifs. The bedroom is next to the Ash dining room, as its logical sequence. (“Phoenix rises from the ashes.“) During daytime, this room looks like any other – a large comfy bed, dark heavy curtains, a [...]
Rock ‘N’ Fire Furniture
Furniture collection inspired by rocks, lava, ashes and fire. Chairs, tables and shelves with ‘volcanic features’ weaved into their design. Dominating materials are recycled plastics, silicon, steel for reinforcement and glass as well as plexiglass, all colored in red with black or gray accents, creating the illusion of ‘volcanic features’. Created during 2008 and 2009. click [...]