Moscow apartment with a total area of ​​207 m2 Mad Aliyev

Passing the gallery

A photo: Sergey Morgunov, Ekaterina Morgunov

Text: Julia Sakharova

Stylist: Evgenia Shuer

Project author: Мэдиев

Designer: Milena Pirova, Vadim Barabonin

Magazine: N1 (79) 2004

"Я не архитектор, я декоратор, точнее - художник по интерьерам", - обычно подчеркивает Мэдиев. И к этой квартире он относится как к художественному произведению... Не потому ли ее пространство получилось легким и одухотворенным This interior story, it seems, from the very beginning was shaped as a story of the artist's quivering relationships and his "thing." Judge for yourself: Mad Aliyev and Milena Pirova are going to St. Petersburg, where customers live, planning to move to Moscow. At their invitation, the decorators remain in St. Petersburg for some time and in close contact they learn a lot about the lives of these people in general (which, you see, is more serious than the usual discussion of interior preferences). “As a result, we just understood what to do,” explains the artist. A new apartment in a prestigious house overlooking the Patriarch's Ponds, Med Aliyev and Vadim Barabonin, "saw" a bright, cheerful, classical, status without pathos. (“No golden stucco!”) By mood it turned out similar to Versailles (or the residence in Strelna), but only more intimate, more touching. And very intelligent. In fact, it is possible to get into the public zone from the hall - the ceremonial hall with Doric columns and niches in the wall - only by passing through the library in the corridor. Books are also stored in the room adjacent to the living room - an office with an impressive walnut library from FOrmichi, where the owner likes to relax. “Just to rest, not to work - to distract from the outside world, to plunge into yourself ...” - specifies Vadim Barabonin. This explains the not quite traditional location of the office - in the middle of a public zone. Private chambers, as usual, are removed from the representative part of the apartment and decorated a little more vividly and romanticly. Furniture, fabrics, table lamps and graphics are reminiscent of the gallant French era. Now the artist "puts the final strokes": for example, picks up antique prints for the collection and statues. The interior is lively, light, aristocratic: a real family nest in a modern version.Мэдиев: “I wanted the“ classic ”not to look either ponderous or too“ gilded. ”We had a truly representative interior suitable for secular receptions. But at the same time, it has a certain chamber character, which will move here soon, will be calm, measured, happy. "