LOLEYLO.INTERIORS is an interior architecture and design practice founded by Leyla Kurshutova, working across private residences, hospitality and experience-led commercial spaces.
At the centre of the practice is an interest in how a space can become more than its given function: how a property becomes a home, a store becomes a destination, or a bar becomes a place people identify with and return to.
Our work moves between architecture, interiors and atmosphere. We develop spaces from their underlying logic — planning, circulation, proportion and the way they are used — through to materials, lighting, bespoke elements, furniture and the details that ultimately define how a place feels.
Rather than beginning with a predetermined style, each project develops from its context and from the life, culture or idea it is intended to hold.
From property to home
In residential projects, we are interested in the difference between owning a property and feeling entirely at home in it.
A developer’s floor plan is therefore never treated as something that simply needs to be furnished. We look again at the architecture: how someone moves through the space, where privacy is needed, how morning differs from evening, where people naturally gather, what should remain visible and what can quietly disappear.
The aim is to create a home that feels like one’s own territory — a personal retreat shaped around the rhythms, habits and pleasures of its inhabitants.
Comfort here is both practical and emotional. It can be found in a room with the right proportions, a carefully considered lighting scenario, intuitive storage or the simple pleasure of having exactly the right place for an everyday ritual.
The architecture establishes the foundation. Materials, furniture, objects and art give it character over time.
We are interested in homes that can evolve rather than date: interiors with enough identity to feel complete, but enough freedom to accommodate what their owners will collect, inherit, discover and become.
Spaces people choose to belong to
The same thinking takes a different form in our commercial and hospitality work.
We are particularly interested in the new generation of hybrid spaces: concept stores that move between retail, coffee and culture; hospitality environments that become part of a neighbourhood; bars, galleries and social spaces where the experience extends beyond the service being offered.
Here, interior architecture becomes part of a larger identity. A successful space is not only recognisable in photographs. It creates a reason to enter, stay, return and participate.
We consider the sequence of arrival, movement and discovery; how the atmosphere changes between day and night; where encounters happen; what becomes a focal point; and how architecture, objects, art, sound, light and material can contribute to a coherent world around a brand or idea.
The ambition is not simply to design a beautiful venue, but to create a place with cultural and emotional relevance — somewhere people can feel part of something.
A way of working
Every LOLEYLO project starts with observation rather than aesthetics.
For a home, this means understanding the people who will inhabit it. For a hospitality or commercial project, it means understanding the audience, the context and the culture a brand wants to create around itself.
Only then do we begin to define the spatial language.
Planning, proportion and circulation come first. Materials are considered for tactility and ageing as much as appearance. Lighting is treated as an architectural tool capable of changing the character of a space throughout the day. Bespoke elements are introduced where they can make the experience more precise, more intuitive or more memorable.
Function matters, but function alone does not make a place worth remembering.
We are equally interested in atmosphere, curiosity, pleasure and moments of the unexpected.
It is a form of considered hedonism: spaces designed not only to work well, but to make being there feel good.
Behind the practice
LOLEYLO.INTERIORS was founded by Leyla Kurshutova, whose approach to design is informed by an ongoing interest in architecture, art, interiors and the ways in which people inhabit places.
Museums, historic houses, restaurants, hotels, galleries and ordinary streets all form part of this visual vocabulary. Travel is less about collecting references than understanding context — why a place feels distinctly Italian, Belgian, Slovak or Mediterranean; how local materials, rituals, history and culture become visible through space.
These observations rarely enter a project literally. They become part of a broader understanding of proportion, atmosphere, material, colour and the relationship between architecture and human behaviour.
There is no single LOLEYLO aesthetic intended to be repeated from one project to another.
What connects the work is a way of thinking: spaces with a strong architectural foundation, a clear identity and enough character to become deeply personal to the people who inhabit them.
Whether private or public, we are interested in creating places that give people a sense of being exactly where they want to be.
We design for belonging.