How does a 28-year-old from a small city in Kazakhstan change into an in-demand inside designer with tasks featured in The New York Times and AD? “Am I actually a designer? Is that this actual?” asks Fariz Mamedov. “It looks like a fairytale.”
An comprehensible response: not so way back, Fariz explains, he was singing in a boy band, enjoying piano and bayan (Russian accordion) professionally, and educating voice classes to kids whereas shoehorning in journalism research at college. Issues went properly sufficient that he was in a position to purchase an condominium for his dad and mom and youthful sister so they might be part of him in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest metropolis, majestically located within the foothills of the Trans-Ili Alatau mountains—a 13-hour drive south of the place he grew up.
Fariz took on pulling collectively his household’s new condominium himself. All the time drawn to design, he had embellished a room in his grandmother’s place as a child and was feeling prepared for a brand new inventive outlet. Completely engaged by the method, Fariz began posting his finds, work, and tips about Instagram and YouTube. Earlier than he knew it, he not solely had a following however his first shopper, then one other. That led to his personal small agency, FM Interiors, a digital portfolio, illustration by an American publicist (he cold-called Karine Monié after one other designer thanked her on social media), and the aforementioned articles. “Inside design,” Fariz tells us, “has change into not only a career however my complete life.”
At Remodelista, with out figuring out any of this, we took word of Fariz’s web site (courtesy of Karine) and had been intrigued by a pied-à-terre in Almaty that he designed for empty nesters. Particularly, we preferred the condominium’s blue-trimmed kitchen with ventilated cabinets, a café desk, and a hard-to-pinpoint mashup of design references. At present at work on a home for these similar shoppers, Fariz was pleased to fill us in on the challenge.
Pictures by Damir Otegen, courtesy of Fariz Mamedov/FM Interiors (@farizmamedov_interiors), styled by Aigerim Mamyraliyeva and Fariz Mamedov.
Above: “I needed to create an inside on the verge of Parisian stylish, Scandinavian restraint, and Kazakh hospitality,” Fariz continues. Towards that finish, the cupboards, cabinets, and island had been all customized constructed to his design and the oak ground is herringbone parquet. 
Above: The sink counter, backsplash, and island are topped with quartz stone—”it’s extremely sturdy and wear-resistant, two key requests from my shopper,” says Fariz. He used paint from Danish model Flügger on the partitions: Offwhite and Museum Blue. The range hood is “built-in right into a plaster enclosure.”
