We’re pleased to highlight a first remarkable cultural event bringing Georgian creativity to the heart of Luxembourg.

Until August 15, 2025, Galerie Liberté is hosting “Rooms Studio: 2016–2025”, a solo exhibition celebrating nearly a decade of groundbreaking design by the acclaimed Georgian design duo, Nata Janberidze and Keti Toloraia.

Best known for their avant-garde approach that blends art, architecture, and design, Rooms Studio presents 16 sculptural pieces — from seating and tables to lighting and tapestry. Each work reflects the evolution of their practice and engages with contrasting forces such as monumentality vs. fluidity and fragility vs. solidity.

“There is a fundamental need for a new bed design,”

— Rooms Studio

Their bold, poetic vision challenges conventional furniture design and offers a rare lens into Georgia’s contemporary creative scene.

We will visit the exhibition this Wednesday July 16th at 10:00 AM and invite others to discover this unique opportunity to experience the essence of Georgian creativity right here in Luxembourg.

📍 Location:

Galerie Liberté, 21 Avenue de la Liberté, Luxembourg-Gare

(Parking des Martyrs / Rousegäertchen)

🗓 On View:

Until 15 August 2025

Learn more about the artists:

roomsstudio.net

The exhibition

As the exhibition title 2016–2025 suggests, this presentation brings together 16 distinct works — seating, tables, lighting, and tapestry — spanning different times and collections within Rooms Studio’s practice.

Each piece is carefully curated to reflect the studio’s work in terms of chronology and materiality, while also drawing attention to contrasting feelings and attitudes — monumentality vs. fluidity, fragility vs. solidity. The exhibition as a whole showcases the richness of materials — wood, stone, cast aluminum, metal, beeswax, and textile — each chosen for its raw, tactile presence.

The installation is set to present various aspects of Rooms Studio’s practice — sculptural, narrative-based furniture and spatial thinking. Cultural identity, along with Georgia’s layered architectural and design history — from archaic and medieval to modernist and transitional present — runs as a leitmotif throughout their work.

Sculptural pieces are placed in conversation with one another: the heaviness of cast aluminum is offset by the softness of fluffy blankets, blending Eastern and Western motifs in quiet tension and balance.

Biography

Nata Janberidze and Keti Toloraia’s collaboration began at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, where they studied Interior Design together from 1997 to 2003. In 2007, shortly after graduating, they founded Rooms Studio – the first female-led practice of its kind in their hometown of Tbilisi, Georgia – focused on furniture design and architectural spaces. Since 2021, the studio has been operating between Tbilisi and Paris.

Intuitive in nature, Rooms Studio’s working methodology is indirect and fluid. Working primarily on a collection-to-collection basis, often with recurring elements, they create a continuous, ever-evolving body of work—as if, like the architecture of their motherland, historical layers are added to one another without abandoning or closing the previous chapters. Rooms Studio creates a perfect blend of design where East and West meet.

There is a vast sculptural aspect to the Rooms Studio interior design practice. Their spatial thinking in the disposition of functional objects—distinguishable by their monumentality and autonomous nature in relation to architecture—places Rooms Studio’s practice somewhere between contemporary, modernist, and symbolist styles, where the line between art, design, and architecture is blurred.

Rooms Studio’s work draws from the rich design traditions of Georgia’s antique, medieval, Soviet, and contemporary eras, continually reinterpreting historic motifs through a personal and contemporary lens.

Reclaiming and redefining a new design identity has remained central to their practice. Expressed through natural materials such as wood, stone, clay, and metal—all hand-crafted by Georgian artisans—collections like Wild Minimalism, DNA Archives, and the Street Series form Rooms Studio’s distinct and authentic language.

Drawing on Janberidze and Toloraia’s personal, experience-driven approach and their observations of Georgia’s shifting social landscape—its perpetual becoming, vulnerability, and precarious living—these themes are best manifested in the DIY Street Series collection and their ongoing works. Marked by precarious architecture, ad-hoc extensions of Soviet-era housing blocks, and DIY vernacular interventions in street décor, Rooms Studio engages with this transformative period, adding new cultural layers to Georgia’s complex history by reflecting and solidifying the true needs of individuals—and practicing resistance.

Contact: info@galerieliberte.com