Vicente Wolf on Tbilisi Gardens
Tbilisi Gardens is a premium class multifunctional residential complex located in the city center (Mikheil Asatiani St. # 6) on an expansive four hectares of land.
Offering distinguished service and a peaceful living space, the design of the 29-floor building has to play a crucial role in creating a cozy and calming environment, which is why developers made sure the interior design was in the hands of the best: American interior designer, Vicente Wolf.
House Beautiful named Wolf among the top ten most fashionable American designers, and Interior Design Magazine recognized him as one of the world's best designers. His company has been working in the Manhattan design industry for 35 years and its signature is recognized around the globe. Tbilisi Gardens is one of his unique works.
Vicente Wolf paid a visit to Georgia last weekend to see the finished project. In an interview with GEORGIA TODAY, the famous interior designer talked about his experience, his world-renowned signature style and Tbilisi Gardens itself.
“If you look closely at what I’ve done with Tbilisi Gardens, you’ll see that everything is a blend of texture, natural materials, straight lines,” he told us. “One of the most unique parts is the ethnic elements that I intermingled with those natural features: sometimes African or Chinese, sometimes textured wood. My design goes along with styles that offer both modern comfort and familiarity in the past.”
He noted that his designs are not minimalistic, but rather “clean.”
“I prefer less ‘overloaded’ spaces, and in Tbilisi Gardens, you can see and feel this in every part of the building,” he said. “People should bring a third element to their living environment, in space. The world is moving forward in time while discovering numerous novelties and this is why the Tbilisi Gardens project shows Tbilisi as a city with a global point of view.”
Balconies bring the outdoors in, in Wolf’s words, “a true comfort which Georgian people appreciate.”
“This project at the same time introduces a different, slightly new way of viewing things, but with the comfort of what people want. I’m very glad to have had the opportunity to bring my experience here,” he said, adding that the overall finished project is “amazing, even though there are some differences between what I drew and what has been built.”
We asked for an example and he pointed out the sales office, whose renderings are vertical instead of his planned horizontal. “This is a small difference and I think it looks very stylish- something special. What I’m seeing here is exactly what I envisioned it would be,” he said.
The Tbilisi Gardens project aims to be a place in a busy city where people have the chance to enjoy life. The skyscraper is based on New York construction standards and American Interior Design and is fully compatible with American NFPA fire safety standards. International construction company MYS Architects (Israel) is supervising the construction process.
The residential complex combines swimming pool, exercise room, business lounge, lobby, children's entertainment space and park.
The project investment value at the first stage is $30 million.
The Tbilisi Gardens project is run by Quadrum Property Group Georgia which operates by name of its subsidiary company BD PROPERTY. Real Estate Investment Fund Quadrum Property Group manages a $1.3 billion capital distributed between real estate and investment funds. The head office is located in London, and it has other offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Moscow, Kiev and in Tbilisi.
Quadrum Property Group also owns another project in Georgia, "East Point" - a shopping and entertainment city, whose investment is more than $110 million.
Quadrum Property Group owns $900 million-worth of property in America, Asia and various post-Soviet countries.
By Nia Pataraia