Two Worlds, One Warsaw Apartment, and a Bar Worth Building a Home Around.

This nearly 200-square-metre apartment in Warsaw, designed by Studio Ola for fashion stylist Ewelina, her partner Oskar and their young son August, was built around a simple idea: two homes in one, each with a different job to do.

The family needed more space and more light, but also somewhere to properly switch off in the evenings.

Studio Ola’s answer was to split the apartment across two levels, each with a distinct mood.

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This 130-square-metre apartment is, frankly, immaculate—Patagonia quartzite, satin stainless steel, microcement underfoot, every sample sweated over to the point of five paint tests deep.

The first floor covers the practical, daylight hours. A sculptural kitchen island in green stone is the anchor here, its custom metal-look cabinetry made by Polish company Escala providing a neutral backdrop for the more playful elements around it. Among them a curved sofa by local artisan Sylwia Biegaj, set against a circular orange mirror and a palm-shaped lamp that together stage the impression of a permanent sunset. Nearby, the dining area plays it straight by comparison, with a dark graphic table and timber chairs offering a monochromatic counterpoint to all that colour.

Head downstairs, though, and the tone changes completely. This is where Studio Ola clearly had the most fun, drawing on the spirit of The Great Gatsby for a home bar built around a monumental curved wall finished in patina and lit from behind, paired with high-gloss burgundy cabinetry and a backlit glass island. A skylight overhead—the detail that reportedly sparked the whole concept—adds a theatrical flourish. It’s the standout moment of the apartment, and deservedly so.

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The same confidence carries through the rest of the lower level: a leopard-print armchair, smoked mirrors that double the room, and a pink microcement floor in Ewelina’s studio that lands as an unexpected jolt of colour after the moodier bar area next door. Studio Ola note that the patinated metalwork was the most technically demanding part of the build, with delicate materials that took considerable trial and error to get right.

It’s a maximalist approach, and not every element will land for everyone. But this apartment was never designed to be universally palatable—it’s a confident, personal statement, one built room by room around the people who live there, and anchored by a bar that makes the case for itself on sight.

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[Images courtesy of Studio Ola. Photography by Oni Studio.]