SALON:The interior is built on a combination of red and white. Why this color scheme?

Arunas Liola: In the work on any project we try not to repeat and every time we look for new ideas around us. The solution is usually tied to a specific situation. In this case, the tips we found in the exterior. The apartment is located in the historical part of Vilnius in a modern building on the 18th floor. Through the stained-glass windows there opens a medieval panorama with tiled roofs, sharp spiers and narrow streets. The glass facade as if blurs the border between internal and external, and the city literally flows into the interior. Near the house is a busy highway. At night, cars racing through it are perceived from a height like red and white lights of parking lights and headlights. Dynamic life outside the windows, the street, flying cars like a living urban organism that is constantly moving. All these sensations and associations merged into one term: white - red. On the combination of these two colors and built design. White floors and walls symbolize silence, tranquility, red partitions - movement, energy. To further enhance the impression, the floor and partitions are made glossy. They glare, reflecting people, furnishings, buildings, streets. The intended effect is to open the view of the city as much as possible and to draw the movement, the dynamics into the interior, which exists as a continuation of this urban organism. It should be noted that the urban, stylish image of the interior is also a portrait of the owner, his character, hobbies. He is a young, dynamic person who loves sports cars. Working on a project, we always focus on the identity of the customer - only then the living environment will be organic, psychologically comfortable.

S: Living space is subject to the main idea - to open a view of the city. Is the planning decision subject to the same task?

 - Yes. Moreover, the interior was conceived as a variant of a personal hotel, apartments for weekends - the customer lives in another city and occasionally happens in an apartment. He comes here to relax, meet friends, and the interior least of all should have been like a traditional family home. That is why the household components of the interior were maximally camouflaged, hidden. The space is organized in the form of a single viewed studio without any outbuildings and is zoned with only three rounded partitions. The kitchen unit is arranged in the first bend, the second is a bathroom, the third shares a sleeping area and a podium with a built-in hydromassage bath. The only exception is a bathroom - a separate room, but we also tried to make it non-banal. We placed the shell in a stand-alone multifunctional column-cylinder, designed according to our sketches. Its uniqueness is that when it is closed, it resembles an art object rather than something functional. If it is opened, a sink, a mirror with a mini-plasma are found, and the open doors work as a screen separating the shower area.

Arunas Liola: "In the design of this apartment there are only two colors. They did not appear by chance. A panorama of the historic center opens through the glass facade, and from a height 18th floor the city seems to be a living organism that is constantly moving. In the dark, racing cars are perceived as the red and white lights of parking lights and headlights. Thus was born the image of a dynamic, urban apartment, in which red and white are an interior metaphor, our interpretation of the dynamic urban chaos that exists outside the windows. The open layout, zoned only by three curved partitions, emphasizes the main concept of the interior - the most open view of the city, which became part of the interior space of the apartment "