The Służewiec Racecourse was designed by Zygmunt Plater-Zyberk and opened in 1939. NAP Studio's design office was tasked with fitting out the VIP area – a three-storey structure housing the box office, restaurant, VIP boxes, and coaches' rooms.
NAP Studio's designers began with a search for the original décor. While digging through the archives, they came across photos that reassured them of the direction the project should take. The Służewiec track is a classic example of shipbuilding-style modernism, but what NAP delivered was not an attempt to reconstruct the original design but a contemporary response to the style of the 1920s and 1930s.
Over two months, a floor area of 1,500 square metres was fitted out. The furniture is a mix of classic and new designs: TON chairs (360 of these!), NAP, Sits, and GTV sofas, coffee tables by NAP, Gubi, and Tom Dixon, and made-to-measure bars with black granite tops and white marble and brass enclosures. Wooden free-standing cash registers with brass finishes were also created especially for this part of the facility.
The second floor houses the box of the Polish Racing Club, where the found antiques were supplemented with additional furnishings. The VIP boxes, on the other hand, which occupy the top floor of the building, in addition to sofas, tables, and chairs, were made more elegant with original Zoffany wallpaper. The grand opening of the VIP area was held on June 25, 2017, during General Anders Day.
Interior design: NAP Studio