Original Artwork & Commissions
Original pieces made to a room's size, palette and lighting, commissioned once the scheme is settled.
Lana Filippova produces original artwork on canvas, metal, glass and wooden panels, and on less usual surfaces such as slate tiles, alongside a range of three-dimensional wall sculptures.
The work suits main living areas as much as kitchens, bathrooms and entrance halls, and because the pieces come in several mediums they can be combined in one house without repeating themselves. That variety is the point: a recognisable style you do not tire of looking at.
The art is made by the designer rather than sourced for the scheme, which is unusual, and it means a piece can be made to a room’s size, palette and lighting rather than chosen to fit them approximately.
The mediums
Each is worked differently, and each suits a different kind of room.
Wall Sculptures
Three-dimensional wall pieces that hold light and shadow, made in sizes that suit the wall they are going on.
Glass Art
Glass pieces, hung or free-standing, worked in colours picked out of the room's own scheme.
Metal Art
Metal wall pieces with a worked surface, scaled to the wall rather than bought to fit.
Fine Art & Mixed Media
Original canvases and mixed media, painted for a particular room and the light it gets.
Photographic Art
Photographic work printed and framed at the size the wall needs.
Recent pieces
About the artist
The work is made by the designer, not sourced for the scheme. More about Svetlana Filippova.
Commissioning a piece
Most commissions start once the rest of the scheme is settled, because a room’s palette and its lighting are what the piece has to answer to. The wall dimensions, the light it gets through the day and the colours already in the room are the brief.
From there it is a conversation about medium and scale, then a price and a lead time before anything is made. Lead times vary by medium: glass takes longer than canvas, and metal work depends on the finish. Nothing is started until the size and the price are agreed.
Where the work is held
Pieces are in private collections in the UK, across Europe, in the USA and in Australia. Paintings are displayed in the Bowdon showroom and are often bought by clients to finish the interiors designed for them, which is the most direct way to see how the two sides of the practice fit together.
The showroom is the best place to see the work in person. Photographs of artwork are honest about colour and hopeless about surface, and most of these pieces are as much about texture as they are about colour.