Moscow Club JVL Art Club Arthur Goga, Irina Mavrodieva, Yuri Minakov

Passing the gallery

A photo: Karen Manko

Text: Valeria Akhmetova

Project author: Irina Mavrodieva, Arthur Gogh

Architect: Yuri Minakov

Magazine: N10 (77) 2003

Jazz is again relevant. The good old twenties reminded themselves of deafening access to the screens of the musical "Chicago", returning to the fashion seductively vulgar dresses with sequins and fishnet tights. You can comfortably feel yourself as a Roxy pupa only in jazz, such as in the new JVL Art Club (Novoslobodskaya St., 14/19, p. 7). A semicircular low stage with a red velvet curtain, the characteristic streamlined shape of the chairs are sent to the salons of huge ocean liners, plying the Atlantic between the two world wars. A frame of neon light animates a collage of distant skyscrapers on a low ceiling and evokes a sigh of delight: "This is Chicago." However, this is Moscow, and the JVL authors had to put a lot of effort into making the former basement think about the golden era of the “chic style” of the Great Depression and become a jazz platform with decent acoustics. For example, the walls in the hall were angled to the stage and sheathed with acoustic panels, which made it possible to use one hundred percent, as they say, one of the most expensive sound sets in the city, which means to make jam sessions truly alive.