Levina Putri Limanjaya

Levina Putri, Pouring Talent into Meaningful Designs

Diving into design science in UPH Interior Design 2009 became the start for Levina Putri Limanjaya to later hop into her interior designer career. Her experience in designing for famous retail and restaurants has given her a good name for doing out of the box works. In 2016, Levina and 4 of her partners started Studio.talk, a consultant studio based on collaborative architecture, interior design, and product design.

“Our main motivation in this business is not to gain profit, but as means of sharing our talents in creating meaningful and satisfying layout,” Levina admits.

Meaningful designs, as Levina believes, is a design that is useful according to the clients’ need functionally and aesthetically. Therefore when she works, she does not treat the project as mere project, but rather an opportunity to expand her talent and personal self-growth. The aforementioned motivation is what differentiates studio.talk to other designers – that bond between each member of the team, their love for experimenting, and the exchanging process of ideas.

Let’s not forget to mention the spirit of collaborating not only in-team but also with their client – that too becomes a focal point of studio.talk’s work. Through discussion, studio.talk was able to both achieve harmonious and unique design. As an interior designer, Levina has completed a few projects including hotels, houses, restaurants, office, as well as furniture and room installation.

There were also a few projects that are exclusive to Levina’s lead, which are Mass Rapid Transit’s (MRT) office at Depo Lebak Bulus and furniture design made out of rattan that was successfully showcased at Maison Objet, Paris 2019 under BEKRAF. Every project has a different side to it. As Levina explains it, in every part that they do, they would always go all out accompanied with a positive, diligent, discipline, and passion driven mindset. With that basis, when hurdles come, one shall not be deterred as long as the design quality remains to each unique request – especially in technicalities and execution.

Levina’s presence in interior design business does not stand apart from her education in UPH. A lot of what she did today was taught to her during her in-class studies at UPH. One crucial point was mindset formation when laying down a floor plan. Levina has proved how aligned education and profession creates a better productivity and creativity. Keep being enthusiastic in creating meaningful designs, Levina!