LOST PROFILE GALLERY
Interior Design
Client: Lost Profile Studio
Interior Design: Nickolas Gurtler
Photography: Timothy Kaye
Media: Est Living, The Local Project
Lost Profile Studio’s gallery is conceived as a transportive sequence rather than a single room. Designed by Nickolas Gurtler Office in close collaboration with founder Oliver Wilcox, the space frames Lost Profile’s sculptural lighting and furniture with the restraint of an architectural set. References to Carlo Scarpa’s Tomba Brion and the cinematic world of Foundation inform a language of portals, thresholds and measured proportion, where light reads as material and time feels choreographed.
A deliberate enfilade sets the cadence. Visitors move through a progression of Dawn, Day and Dusk, each zone tuned to a distinct quality of light, tone and atmosphere. The journey opens bright and invitational, settles into a calm centre, then deepens toward shadow before returning to luminosity. This tonal gradient is not decorative staging. It is a tool for perception that sharpens the geometry of each piece and invites a slower, more attentive way of looking.
Material choices are disciplined and sensorial. Soft finishes and quiet textures temper crisp lines, creating a productive tension between pliable surfaces and structural geometry. The main chamber rises to a gentle vault, establishing a nave-like heart where objects are treated as protagonists. Plinths, walls and apertures act as supporting cast, guiding views without spectacle. Even the light is composed. Openings are placed to create moments that read as “light-only” portals, so illumination is experienced as substance rather than afterthought.
The result is a gallery that operates like a score. Rhythm replaces novelty, proportion replaces ornament, and every detail serves the work on display. Lost Profile Studio’s pieces sit in dialogue with the architecture around them, gaining gravity and presence while never feeling overdetermined. The experience is ceremonial yet intimate, precise yet generous. Above all, it is a clear expression of a long-standing creative partnership, where design discipline and artistic intent meet to celebrate form, material and the quiet drama of light.