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Astrid Chastka
  • INTERIOR DESIGN
  • SET DESIGN
  • contact/about
  • PIGEON PALACE

Astrid Chastka Inc. is a creative studio specializing in a wide range of artistic and spatial projects including set design, art direction, installations, and interior design.

Astrid’s degree in architecture and previous experience as co-founder/creative director of both a clothing brand and a jewelry line offer a solid foundation for generating conceptual strategies and implementing them with an artistic detail. This depth of experience also yields fluency across creative platforms (Creative Suite to 3D modeling to physical making) and a comfortable foundation for design and fabrication of larger scale build-outs.

Astrid believes that the most exciting new ideas can be generated in the gray area where multiple fields meet. She is constantly exploring new ways to weave connections between her current projects and materials and processes learned in her previous fields. She seeks to propose inventive, unexpected concepts that manifest as beautiful and thoughtful visual experiences.

When not on set, Astrid is happiest eating cheese and playing Italian card games.


FOR ALL BOOKING INQUIRIES:

Please contact Jordana at Hello Artists [hello@helloartists.com]

Selected Clients: 
ALEXANDRE BIRMAN, ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST, AWAY, BAZAAR, BLOOMINGDALES, BOISSON, BOSE, CHRONICLE BOOKS, CLINIQUE, DAILY HARVEST, DIANE VON FURSTENBERG, DWR, ETSY, HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, KATE SPADE, KYLIE COSMETICS, ELLE, ELLE DECOR, GLOSSIER, GOOGLE, HEARST DIGITAL MEDIA, LAURA MERCIER, LE LABO, LE MERIDIEN, MOMA DESIGN STORE, MOVADO, NARCISO RODRIGUEZ, NEW YORK TIMES, PAPERLESS POST, PERNOD RICARD, PHAIDON, POPSUGAR, REFINERY29, SAVEUR, STARBUCKS, SQUARESPACE, T BRAND STUDIO, WEST ELM, WOODFORD RESERVE

CONTACT ASTRID:

 
how to survive a heatwave
spent an afternoon hiking around #russelwright landscape and architecture jewel @visitmanitoga and was so inspired by his mindset to work with what was already all around him to cultivate his house and gardens.
Some recent spaces styled for @demo_architects (first 3 shot with @chauntevaughn ; last 2 with @mattdutile)
@helloartists
shot on film with @sylaust for @maisondetto - still a favorite shoot all these years later

Thx @helloartists @veronicabklyn
National ‘Celebrating the Fact That I Got Not Just One But TWO Ceramic Miniature Poodles in This Shot’ Day. Wishing a joyous day to all who celebrate. 

📸 @chelsealouisekyle 
with @heysueli @fitbproduction @helloartists
ice- so beautiful… SO hard to rig 😝
love these images made with @sidneybensimon @heysueli @hakansonproductions and  @estherhwang for @otrcocktails
snow on a skylight
a fun afternoon snacking @eavesdrop.nyc and taking a few photos with @sidneybensimon
Elowen the Satinette pigeon.
photos by @chauntevaughn 
Sets by me
Elowen belongs to our friend John from the NSPFC. (Nassau Suffolk Pigeon Fanciers’ Club)
surely you know someone who needs a fancy pigeon in their life? 
new prints and puzzles photographed by @chauntevaughn and myself available at PigeonPalace - link in bio.
made some paintings/assemblages and @nothinginpassing photographed them for me.
A or B?
styled a while back but I never got a chance to share. For @boisson.sips (I’m a fan girl!) Shot by @sidneybensimon and 🍸by @mpearljones 
thx also to @helloartists and @lidia.moore
earlier this year I got to play a small role helping @kellywearstler and her team compose images for her extraordinary collection with @serax_official . The products are beautiful; my favorites were the cutlery in image 2 and the marble centerpieces
summer blooms / fall feelings

1st photo with @chauntevaughn 
2nd in my iPhone6 may it live forever
more experiments with 📸 @dichen_chen 

for @kyliecosmetics
thank you to @helloartists @humanmel @davidvanwitt
fun to work on this shoot of artist-made homewares for @housebeautiful with @chauntevaughn @catherine.dipersico @morozy @helloartists and a great team helping behind the scene
new paintings / assemblages made using set scraps.

the top one uses a dowel rod that has been sitting in my studio with me for half a decade & @portolapaints roman clay. The bottom is scraps of wood and leather and a frame made with old ikea bed
getting ready to share a new collection of fancy pigeon prints 🕊
this one is a stunning Fantail.
A or B - @bialetti edition. and then i promise i’ll start posting non-Bialetti content 😉

Director @chelsealouisekyle 
Coffee styling @alex.savidis 
Production @missridachin 
Sound design @urrduhdur 
Art direction @ryanbarone 

Special thanks

© 2016 Astrid Chastka. All images used with permission.