Close-up of a pink sea urchin with long, thin spines on a green, textured rock

MEET

WANDA.

furniture designer

interior architect

craft person

researcher

underwater photographer

freediver

A woman with glasses and a white shirt standing behind a display table with framed photographs of flowers and a lamp, at an indoor event.
A woman with short red hair and glasses smiling stands in an art gallery with framed photographs of flowers on the wall behind her.
A person windsurfing on blue water with rocky islands in the background and a lighthouse in the distance.
A woman in red and white waterproof gear standing on wet pavement, preparing climbing or rappelling equipment outdoors near a building and parked cars.
Smiling woman with short hair wearing a blue jacket and patterned sweater standing outdoors with trees in the background on a clear day.
A woman smiling and holding a small woven textile on a wooden handles, standing under a wooden shelter.

Bio

Wanda Filarowski is a trained interior architect and furniture designer.

She specialised in workplace design and the human experience in space.

She is a maker and craftsperson who experiments with hard and soft materials, with traditional methods and new approaches. She likes to experiment with different structures and patterns. She enjoys combining product parts that were previously used with new handmade parts to bring a new purpose to the product.

She is inspired by the world around her. Nature, people, city life, country side, on top of a mountain, several meters below water. Her underwater photography is a way to show you what inspires and drives her.

Curriculum Vitae

2023

Founded Wanda Filarowski Design Studio

2018 - 2023

Workplace Consultant - planning & design, project management, strategy. workingwell GmbH Munich

2019- 2021

Master´s Degree in Industrial Design NTNU Trondheim

Thesis topic “Guidelines for making learning spaces - Children inclusion in space design to create learning spaces for the future”

2015 - 2018

Master Studies in Design and Product Management

2013 - 2015

Freelancing interior architecture

2011 - 2015

Carpentry working student

2011 - 2015

Bachelor´s Degree in Interior Architecture - specialised in furniture design from TH Rosenheim

Thesis topic - “Investigation on bio-based materials for interior fittings”

Exhibitions and Experiments

2025

Summer School Traditional Craftmanship Handweaving

2024

Exhibition with Atelier Ilsvika at Galleri Hans, Brekstad