Studio for Housing and Interior Design, Ljubljana [Studio za stanovanje in opremo]

The ‘Studio for Housing and Interior Design’ was founded in 1963 as an independent institute by architects France and Marta Ivanšek with the support of seven Slovenian industrial companies. Its mission was to improve the level of design and use of colour in residential and public environments through scientific research, development, design work, education, and propaganda.
The studio, which had both a design and a research department, was also active in the fields of publishing and exhibitions, of which ‘Contemporary Interior Design’, a 1964 showcase of thirty-six interiors furnished exclusively with well-designed Yugoslav products, was particularly popular with the general public. The Studio had a showroom and store in Ljubljana called ‘Interier’, which opened in 1965, and another in Maribor called ‘Ambient’, which opened in 1970. In 1970, the Studio renamed itself ‘Ambient, a company dedicated to the improvement of residential and public spaces’.