Projects

Rooms that hold a point of view.

Schlittler Interior Design is being newly established. The works below are concept studies, developed for real Swiss buildings and staged with pieces from our own range. For each room we set out how we read it and how we solved it.

Country house, Thurgau
Project 01

Country house, Thurgau

Entrance and living space · Concept study 2026

Starting point

A half-timbered house from 1911, converted twice. The entrance was a dark passage with three doors in a tight space, the living room behind it overfilled. The owners did not want a new build inside an old one, they wanted calm.

Concept

We treat the entrance as a room of its own rather than a corridor. A single sight line from the door to the living room window orders everything else. Only what supports that line is furnished: a slim oak console, two plinths of different heights, nothing more.

Light and material

The lime plaster is hand troweled so the afternoon raking light has a texture to work on. We use three materials instead of seven: oiled oak, lime, glass. From five in the afternoon the hurricane lanterns on fir plinths are the only warm light source, everything else stays indirect.

Outcome

The entrance reads as larger although not one square metre was added. Two objects carry the room because everything else was left out.

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Vaulted cellar, St. Gallen
Project 02

Vaulted cellar, St. Gallen

Tasting room · Concept study 2026

Starting point

A seventeenth century barrel vault, until now a storeroom. Cold surfaces, no daylight except one shaft, heavy reverberation. Any ceiling fitting would have flattened the vault.

Concept

A vault does not need a ceiling light, it needs a rhythm. We place plinths of staggered heights along the reveal so the light follows the curve instead of working against it. The oak table stays the only large surface in the room.

Light and material

Candle light at about 1800 Kelvin against cool limestone gives the contrast electric light cannot produce here. Against the reverberation we work with textile under the table and with open niches instead of closed surfaces.

Outcome

The room sits at twelve degrees and still feels warm. That is the colour temperature at work, not the heating.

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City apartment, Zurich
Project 03

City apartment, Zurich

Light and colour · Concept study 2025

Starting point

A period apartment with a ceiling height of 3.4 metres and windows facing north. The white walls read grey all day, and every extra lamp made it colder rather than warmer.

Concept

North light is stable but cool. Instead of brightening it we make the wall colour warmer than the light: a deep greige with a red base. One single wall stays bone white and works as a reflector.

Light and material

Two layers of light: daylight from the north and a warm layer at 2700 Kelvin at head height. The hurricane on the dark plinth deliberately sits below eye level so the ceiling keeps its height. The conical glass vase stands where both sources meet and collects both temperatures.

Outcome

The same room, the same windows, but the walls no longer tip into grey. Not one more lamp was installed, one fewer was.

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Gallery, Muolen
Project 04

Gallery, Muolen

Exhibition concept · Concept study 2026

Starting point

A village house with irregular walls and low lintels. Too uneven for classic wall hanging, too empty once cleared for living.

Concept

We work with plinths rather than with the wall. Objects stand free in the room and the visitor walks around them. The wall stays empty and becomes an exhibit in itself.

Light and material

A diffuse base light of about 300 lux plus one single warm accent per object. The plinths are raw fir rather than lacquered MDF, so they age with the house instead of standing beside it.

Outcome

Five objects read as an exhibition and not as decoration. The distance between them is what makes the difference.

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Stairwell, Rorschach
Project 05

Stairwell, Rorschach

Guided lighting · Concept study 2025

Starting point

A stairwell over three floors with one ceiling fitting per landing. Evenly bright and entirely without direction, which made the climb feel longer than it is.

Concept

Stairs are read as rhythm. We reduce the ceiling fittings to a minimum and set one light point at a different height on every landing. Climbing, you follow a sequence rather than a surface.

Light and material

Terrazzo reflects hard, lime plaster softly. The warm light therefore sits on the wall and not on the floor. The handrail is blackened rather than polished so it does not draw a second line of light.

Outcome

The stair reads shorter and calmer, with noticeably less light than before.

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Art space, Lake Constance
Project 06

Art space, Lake Constance

Object staging · Concept study 2026

Starting point

A large lakeside room with a great deal of glass. Silvery, even light that makes every material look flat and devalues every colour.

Concept

Against flat light, texture helps, not colour. We set woven rattan, driftwood and carved mango wood against the smooth surfaces. The seating deliberately sits off centre so the eye does not end in the window straight away.

Light and material

The lake light is not dimmed but broken: open reveals, one heavy linen curtain on one side, nothing else in front of the glass.

Outcome

The room loses none of its view and gains depth, because something in the foreground finally casts a shadow.

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