Ceren Kılıç
From Istanbul, Türkiye
Based in Athens, Greece
Architect and multidisciplinary designer working across spaces, exhibitions, furniture, and objects.
Currently based between cities, systems, and decisions.
Exploring modes of practice where design is not only about form, but about constructing frameworks — for collaboration, for visibility, for impact.
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Awards
2025 Red Dot Winner
2024 German Design Award
2023 German Design Award
2023 IF Design Award
Artworks with MDF Laminated Panels
Installation, 2024
in collaboration with demirden | ilio
Istanbul, TR
2025 IF Design Award
Inspired by İstanbul, this artwork installation explores how memory can be carried through material.
Using Yıldız Entegre’s own surfaces, a series of compositions emerged from the city’s textures, landscapes, and traces. Installed within a historic building, the project is rooted in a simple contrast: contemporary industrial materials placed within a structure shaped by time.
Rather than representing the city directly, the installation assembles fragments of texture, colour, and memory into a layered narrative that unfolds through material, inviting visitors to form their own connections with place and time.
Förni Showroom
Showroom Design, 2024
in collaboration with demirden | ilio
Istanbul, TR
Designed as the first showroom for Förni, the strategy was shaped by the brand’s “Traditionally Sustainable” manifesto.
The walls draw on Förni’s long-standing expertise in solid wood, using the material not only in the furniture itself but also as an architectural backdrop.
White textile screens are suspended throughout the space, gently defining different product families. Rather than creating fixed boundaries, they introduce flexibility, allowing the showroom to remain open and adaptable.
Sini for Förni
Product Design, 2023
in collaboration with demirden | ilio
Istanbul, TR
Inspired by the sini, a traditional object of gathering and sharing, the table explores how cultural memory can be carried through form.
Crafted from solid wood.
Care For Your World, Unicera 2021
Exhibition Design, 2021
in collaboration with demirden | ilio
Istanbul, TR
Inspired by the brand’s “Take Care of Your World” approach, this structure was designed as a reusable system composed of timber and custom metal connection elements. It can adapt to different scenarios, be dismantled and reassembled, and continuously transform over time. Graphics and messages are not additions to the structure, but integral parts of the system itself. Capable of evolving into different formats for exhibitions, products, and communication, the structure does not conceal its materiality; it remains exposed, sufficient, and reusable.
Kavel for Förni
Product Design, 2023
in collaboration with demirden | ilio
Istanbul, TR
Inspired by the temporary structures of Istanbul’s street markets, this shelving system translates an everyday urban scene into a permanent object.
While the rear legs remain orthogonal to the ground plane, the front legs are inclined inward by five degrees. This deviation from the vertical generates a shifting perception of alignment and depth, causing the object to read differently from varying viewpoints. It creates an illusion through a minimal geometric intervention.
Crafted from solid wood.
Designed Surfaced That Blend with Landscape, Interzum 2023
Exhibition Design, 2023
in collaboration with demirden | ilio
Cologne, DE
2023 German Design Award
Conceived as a material landscape, the installation brings together panels, textures, and finishes within a single spatial composition. Inspired by natural forms and layered terrains, it encourages a slower way of looking—allowing materials to be experienced not as isolated samples, but through their relationships with one another.
Calm & Glam
Product Design, 2025
in collaboration with demirden | ilio
Istanbul, TR
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Paşabahçe Flagship Store
Space Design, 2021
in collaboration with demirden | ilio
Istanbul, TR
Designed for Paşabahçe, the flagship store explores how a retail space can become a contemporary expression of glass culture.
The 1200 sqm project creates a series of experiences that reveal the material’s history, versatility, and presence in everyday life. Physical and digital layers work together to guide visitors through an evolving journey of discovery.
Rooted in ideas of sustainability, innovation, and cultural continuity, the store redefines retail as a space for engagement, learning, and inspiration.
Layerscape
Product Design, 2023
in collaboration with demirden | ilio
Istanbul, TR
Designed as a gift for designers and clients, it remains as a lasting reminder of the dialogue between material, landscape, and everyday life.
The product brings together layers of the brand’s own materials to form quiet miniature landscapes. Each surface carries a different texture and, coming together, like fragments of nature assembled by hand. The object becomes something to pause and look through, like a small scenery shaped by light and material. Together, the layers create a soft dialogue between industry and nature, transforming industrial panels into a poetic object.
Produced in an edition of 2,000 pieces.