apartment with a total area of ​​136 m2 Marina Zaynetdinova, Ekaterina Khardikova Apartment interior, executed in the style of Art Nouveau. The abundance of unique, original parts and accessories

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A photo: Dmitry Livshits, Zinon Razutdinov

Text: Dmitry Kopylov

Project author: Marina Zainetdinov

Architect: Ekaterina Khardikova

Metal Works: Alexander Demin

Textile: Margarita Gordeeva

Painter: Andrey Khodakov

Magazine: N11 (56) 2001

Marina Zainetdinova was exceptionally lucky. First of all, the customer had already heard about the work of this studio and had the opportunity to see for themselves its skill. Secondly, the apartment is “ideal” for work: in a new, newly built house. This architectural "purity" is always a welcome material for the creator. Therefore, there was no trouble with redevelopment, in the free void it is easy to determine the zoning of the space. In this small (136 sq. M.) Room, in addition to the obligatory living room, kitchen and bedroom, there should also have been a children's room and an office. A kind of "fragmentation" of planning became a kind of starting point in the search for style solutions. The interior is made in the style of Art Nouveau, the hallmark of which is the abundance of unique, original parts and accessories. Stylized niches for high curved, resembling torches, lamps in the corridor, mosaic panels, an unusual closet in the living room - these are all the "signs" of Art Nouveau. The center of the interior composition of the apartment was a column with rays radiating in all directions, accentuated by lamps. But the main thing in this apartment is still not a style, and not even a combination of styles, but light and color. Now it does not matter whether it was included in the creative plans of the authors or not, but the result, as usual, is much more than the plan. The color scale reminds more likely not private apartments, but something from the category of tactile sensations. The three main colors - cream, honey and chocolate - in abundance will provide the visitor with these associations. Matte-cream furniture with simple, moderately grooved surfaces, of course, is nothing like a buffet. Otherwise, it is difficult to perceive. Cozy milky-white flannel, which is wrapped with chairs in the dining room, continues this imaginative row. The base of the wall is made in golden - red tones.Marina Zainetdinov: The “art nouveau” manner is light, playful, ironic and at the same time intelligent. This design direction is unique because it requires the artist to pay attention to any “little things.” Art nouveau does not allow the architect to be even a talented copyist, must remain a creator. "