Boris Dmitriev рассказывает о том, как он прошел путь от модельера до декоратора и почему любит создавать цветные интерьеры

Passing the gallery

A photo: Mikhail Stepanov

Decorator: Boris Dmitriev

Magazine: №8 (229) 2017

There is a lot in common between fashion and interior design, as I tell you as a person who has traveled from the profession of fashion designer to the profession of decorator. In a sense, we also try on the interior as clothes, and it is not known that even “closer to the body” - “our own shirt” or our own interior.

Гостиная в подмосковном доме. Потолок декорирован обоями по эскизам Уильяма Морриса. Автор интерьера — Boris Dmitriev

Гостиная в подмосковном доме. Потолок декорирован обоями по эскизам Уильяма Морриса. Автор интерьера — Boris Dmitriev

At some point in my modeling career (which was just taking off at the time), I realized that the interior is more important to me, that this is a basic, fundamental thing, that this is the sign system with which we can express everything, even the state emotion. For example, happiness or a feeling of joy.

This is what I actually do, and the first, my favorite tool is color. create color interiors, in which there are a lot of different shades, and all of them “live” in harmony. First, as in clothes, you choose one or two primary colors, then you find complementary colors for them, and as a result you can get an interesting, rich palette. So, in one of my works, powder-pink, I set off with a contrasting cobalt-blue, added (in fabrics and accessories) beige, lemon yellow, brighter and colder pink.

Автор интерьера — Boris Dmitriev

Автор интерьера — Boris Dmitriev

There is a carpet on the floor in which all these colors are intertwined on a black background. And black here is not knocked out of the general history, it serves as a kind of unifying frame (like the ivory-colored joinery). By the way, it is possible to go both from textiles and from wallpaper, revealing colors in the interior that are already in their ornament, but - let me emphasize - only if it is a highly artistic thing, like a French antique tapestry or wallpaper according to William Morris's sketch. I love this artist.

Somehow I got the idea to “pull” the colors from the Morris wallpaper, which are produced according to his author's drawings, into the interior. Fortunately, the customers agreed to such an experiment. And when people ask me, where does this blue come from in this house, where does such green, red, brown, beige come from and how does all this polyphony sound harmonious, I say: “Look at the ceiling”. There otgadka. On the ceiling there are just those very wallpapers, from the color palette of which the “blue-gray” doors, an olive chair, a brown table and so on “grew”. And I am happy that I have such a talented "co-author."