Alexandra Miskufova is a Slovak interior architect, working at the intersection of interiors, space, and objects, currently located in Geneva.
Alexandra graduated from Kingston School of Art London in 2022. Her Bachelor project focused on adaptive reuse was shortlisted for the Interior Educators Award in the category ‘Craft and Making,’ and her Bachelor thesis was shortlisted for the Interior Educators Writing Award in 2021. She then went on to continue her education in the MAIA program at HEAD – Genève, earning a Master’s degree in Interior Architecture in 2024. Alongside her education, she gained professional experience through internships in studios across the United Kingdom, Slovakia, and Switzerland. Her rich background and skills manifest in a sensitive and versatile approach to the design of interiors, space, and objects. She is inspired by personal experience with a strong focus on tactility, commitment to craft, and traditional ways of making. Her work explores various materialities, notably textiles, and roots itself in the domestic environment, as demonstrated in her MAIA diploma project.
Diploma Project
That Rug Really Tied the Room Together
“My grandmother always said that there must be a mistake made in every carpet to remind us that we are only human. She spent her whole life weaving carpets, which she learned from her mother – a fact I accidentally discovered. Entangled by this unexpected tie to weaving, I created a collection of carpets that continues my grandmother’s story and tells one of my own.”
That Rug really Tied the Room Together is an installation conceived as a curated walk through memories. The project stems from a personal journey of discovering weaving as a technique for creating new spatial typologies. It reflects on the carpet as the key element of the domestic interior and challenges its traditional role as simple floor covering. The project aims to highlight women’s crucial, but often invisible, role in preserving and modernizing this craft. Each hand-woven carpet examines weaving’s dual nature – the strict mathematical and intuitive playful qualities that coexist together. By working with reused textiles and weaving, the installation celebrates slow and traditional ways of making and ancestral wisdom passed on through generations.
