"Makikafe" in Moscow Andrei Dmitriev, Elizaveta Vintova, Alexander Tsimailo

Passing the gallery

Leading headings: Nina Farizova

A photo: Vladimir Karchin

Architect: Elizaveta Vintova, Alexander Tsimailo

Decorator: Andrey Dmitriev

Magazine: N11 (89) 2004

Decorator Andrei Dmitriev loves to work with rough textures, balancing them with subtle things. As he himself says, one must always "keep the balance of the brutal and the elegant." The somewhat strange name of the new institution is "Makikafe" (Moscow, Glinischevsky lane. d. 3) - attracts the public rather than scares. The rumor about the design "Petersburg" place, made in conjunction with Moscow architects Elizaveta Vintova and Alexander Tsimailo, began to spread very quickly. From the former restaurant "Moscow-Bombay" not a trace remains. On the three-hundred-meter square "Poppies" - walls peeled up to brick, painted directly over the cement, deliberately exhibited ventilation pipes and hoods, grenades from Indonesia, a glass vinotheque and many more small things. A sort of "Dmitrievsky minimalism" for the capital's beau monde.