Interview with Tamas Csiszer

Creativity and artistic orientation have spanned generations in my family. My incentive to design is not accidental, composers and painters can be found among my ancestors.

Function, harmony and ambience are the top three aspects of my design process. I work primarily for retail stores, so I produce designs and plans for installation and constraction if it is needed. I prepare hand drawings and sketches when I start to design trying to assimilate to the ambience of the space intended for transformation. After discussing about the plan with my colleagues the digital tools and renderings are always integrated in all of our projects to create three-dimensional visualizations.

I feel humility in the initial phase of designing a retail store. My main goal is to meet and exceed my clients demand and of those who has intention to come in that store in the future. I am constantly balancing my design decisions and my clients desires, or what is the first, the design or the function. It is important to remember that it is up to the clients to decide what style suits them best. I try to be not so extremist. I like the whole process of working with my clients and colleagues to achieve the perfect final product.

I am empathetic with people. They can rely on me as a human being as well. Meeting more people sharpens my sense more to feel what the client wants. I think apart from a strong technical expertise, the ability to communicate with people and understanding their feelings contribute to the success. Emotional intelligence is a necessary part of our works. A good communication skill including negotiation skills are also necessary for the contact and effective cooperation with general building contractors.

As my career path prooves, not every interior designer needs to have an accredited education. But there are some essential qualities for interior designers such as artistic ability and creativity. For the creative young designers the limit is the sky but some technical skills such as being precise in measuring spaces and creating drawings to workers and engineers are also essential. Learning about local laws, building codes, electricity and load-bearing walls is required. Young designers does not have enough depth on particular knowledge. Work experience make possible to put into practice what they have learned. On the other hand I would like to add that the young designers can make the breaktrough and create masterpieces.

I suggest to fellow designers and encourage them to create a design that refers to their own original idea and to resist on influence of others as much as possible.

I prefer to start my workday at 6 o'clock. I give a strong start to my days in order to avoid annoying disturbance. At daytime I am busy with phone calls, surveying locations and my work requires communication and cooperation with my partners and colleagues. For instance, during the day I can not choose appropriate time for creating drawings, rethinking challanges. Spending late afternoon and night time with my family is the convenient way to take part in my childrens life entirely, in other words, to spend quality time with my family.

The influence of mass media is inevitable. I like to improve myself by new technical inventions and furniture novelties, fashion trends. I keep up with latest design trends by contacting distributors, attending show trades, collecting catalogues. I beleive I am open minded, I like to involve new things in designing. But I don't let the latest trends to hamper my decision making. I do not support any particular trend. The fashion trend represents just only 20 % of the design. The main part of the design consist of finding the mood of the interior and the way to express it.

Regarding the initial phase of my works I like to be inspired by the emotional impact of an interior. It means I like to feel its soul. We can talk about a long- established or a newly formed interior, the important is that a good design should make an impression on me. I consider as a mistake when people think that just following the latest design is enough to give character to a place.

My favourite work is always the current project. But one of my earlier design the eyewear store Optika di Moda is still close to my heart. The retail space is in a listed building of a historic district. I wanted to make entering people touched by the historical feeling. My aim was to create a space combining the original 19th century features with the new in an elegant way. Even with this project I haven't gain any trophy I consider it as one of the biggest challenge in my life.

Arne Jacobsen who is famous for his sense of proportion. Charles and Ray Eames are noted for the bent plywood designs. Jonathan Ive provides minimalist design by using simple forms taking from nature. I like Trussardi as well who combine elegance, sophistication with comfort.

I started my career at around the turn of the millenium with designing displays for optical stores. then I got involved in designing and executing the optical shops from the first step to the very end. Since then I have left my mark on 300 stores. Later on besides optical stores, restaurants, hotels, and dozens of companies of various profiles have opted for my services.

Since my childhood I was interested in designing. When I was 14 during socialist era the unanimity was annoying for me. Each flat in a block of flats was similar to an other. No uniqueness. Same wallpapers, same carpets and same furnitures were applied in each flat. So I was motivated to interrupt this conformity in order to create an interesting, unique ambience and to surround myself by new things. I think the sense of the selection of materials and colours derives from that time.

I think a good interior designer can contribute to create a harmonious, pleasant and practical space, but a great designer can create something new, specifique and unique and timeless.

To design a moder church is one of my deam project.

Arne Jacobsen who is famous for his sense of proportion. Charles and Ray Eames are noted for the bent plywood designs. Jonathan Ive who provides minimalism design using simple and natural forms. I like Trussardi too who value the combination of sophistication , elegance and comfort using materials and colors I prefer.

As much as you work you meet different kind of demands and challanges provided by clients. As an interior designer you have to sometimes cope with the restrictions of the strict expectations and other times complete freedom of design. More work experience makes you better designer.

The design means big ideas and the art means the realisation when you manage to put it into practice. The design even an interior design is an art when I transformed my idea or my conception into a real, valuable, functional, meaningful final product. The art is when the idea can work as an artwork.

My biggest supporters are those customers who give feedback to my clients even from abroad.

I am currently working on Apheresis Centers that means a new challange for me. The brief was to design an environment which is less associated with the strict atmosphere of healthcare.

Your castle is my playground where we play together. You will be left alone with your toy in the end but you shall not feel lonely as more and more will come to play for noone has a castle like yours.

I think the design sets the trends.

AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Rhino3D, Illustrator

Once we ordered an enormous lustre for a retail store from abroad. After waiting long time the shipment arrived. Then we opened the huge package and it was a funny surprise that it contained a big Buddha statue instead of the lustre.

The Csiszer Design Studio was founded in 1999 in Hungary in Veszprem. Now the company plays a significant role ont the Hungarian optical market.
We are in a small city in a small country and but we are glad to work on many projects throughout Europe.

The design means big ideas for me and the art means its realisation when you manage to put it into practice. The design even an interior design is an art when I transforme my idea or my conception into a real, valuable, functional, meaningful final product.

I design different kind of retail stores and it makes me always happy when I meet a new challange. I prefer the most large spaces to design.

My favorite is always the project I am currently working on. At the moment I am charged with designing Apheresis Centres from the medical sector which means a new challenge for me.

When I get a commission and I have a possibility to create with complete freedom, without any strict expectations. When it is allowed expressing myself without limits.

The main aspect is to create a store that functions smoothly in practice.

I try to identify myself with the conditions of the surrounding area.

Our suppliers, manufacturing sources or partners needs to have certificates. We prefer using packaging technology with recycled papers. In the office we try to avoid using paper for planning and sketches. To avoid air pollution we use electric rollers as much as we can.

I think people value more and more the combination of simplicity and practicality. And using practicalness in production and fabrication of materials leads to an easier and environmentally friendly execution

To develop my competence as a designer I regularly attend international exhibitions. Besides the values of the heritage of my family I also find inspiration in nature, contemporary art or even in hours of solitary silence in front of the Duomo de Milano.

I am not particular about any trends and styles and I focus on the primary object of the project. Therefore I have no shop that compares to another.

Yes, I feel the cultural heritage in my country sometimes it affects my designs. I have already designed a place bearing folklore motifs reminiscent of the past combining with minimalism to give a modern appearance of the space. One hand as a designer I cope with strict regulations in a case of designing in a listed building but the other hand the past is always a part of a masterpiece that should be remain.

A chair, an electric roller, designed megaphone, an original stereoscope

As much as you work you meet different kind of demands and challanges provided by clients. As an interior designer you have to sometimes cope with the restrictions of the strict expectations and other times complete freedom of design. More work experience makes you better designer.

I consider myself an openminded designer that means sometimes I can easily find common ground with people but the other hand it leads me to struggle with the conformity of the society.

Should be able empathetic and loyal with the client and if it is necessary should be able to compromise with the client to satisfy each demands and to reach ultimate goals.

I like collecting catalogues at exhibitions and from the internet. I attend regularly exhibition halls of our partners to stay up-to date in materials, shapes, and paints.

I would like to be available internationally for those who like my works.

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