21/07/2026
Entering Nata Janberidze’s (jambo) apartment creates a chain of recollections. Through a wooden library corridor, Tbilisi begins to reveal itself, not only through books, artworks and collected objects, but in the atmosphere of the home itself. Looking onto the city’s disappearing courtyards, the apartment carries the layered culture of Georgia, where memories, symbolism and everyday rituals quietly shape the spaces people inhabit.
Home to the co-founder of Rooms Studio (Rooms Studio), the apartment has evolved over the past decade alongside family life, each intervention responding to changing needs rather than a fixed plan. Ancient and contemporary influences exist in quiet dialogue, reflecting the same intuitive approach that has established Rooms Studio as one of Georgia’s defining voices in design.
Read the full feature in ARK JOURNAL Volume XV.
Photography by James Nelson
Words by Elené Abashidzé
In the classic Tblisian courtyard home, the formality of the herringbone parquet is eased by the 1940s soft leather sofa and the folding deck chair from Cado.
Expansive windows and gauzy curtains filter light in the dining room with a custom-made oak table and early midcentury chairs from Paul Bert, Serpette market in Paris. On the plinth is Ceramiche Vessel 3 by Rooms Studio for Bitossi and above it a plate by Georgian ceramicist Alde Kakabadze.
Ethnology, mythology, traditional and
hand-crafted modernist elements have all been incorporated in the Beam Dining Table, Pomegranate Chairs and Sculptural Chairs by Rooms Studio.
