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apartment with an area of ​​239 m2 in Moscow

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A photo: Sergey Morgunov

Text: Julia Sakharova

Project author: Sergey Makushev, Maria Silver

Architect: Evgenia Orlova

Magazine: N5 (160) 2011

Spectacular flowing space, rich colors, furniture from famous designers ... This interior was created for architects by a successful young man. Maria Silver and Sergey Makushev

The house where this apartment is located is located in one of the green areas of Moscow - in a park, next to it is a reservoir. It is enough to look at the plan of the apartment to see that there is not a single rectangular room in it, as if all the lines tend to converge towards the center. Hence the features of the layout. “In fact, the contour of the apartment is a trapezoidal segment of the ring: all the walls are at different angles to each other,” says Maria Silver. - It is this non-standard form that determined our decision to work with volume. We completely abandoned the corridors, allowing the space to flow from room to room. Due to this, the apartment seems simply gigantic. ”

And in particular this applies to the living room, which took place in the center of the apartment; the rest of the premises are gathered around it - a kitchen-dining room, two bedrooms with bathrooms, an office and a block of technical rooms. The living room really seems much larger than it really is. Here (besides the fact that its space is open to other rooms), its role is played by its irregular, curvilinear shape, and the ceiling of dark color. “If you want the ceiling to look particularly high, make it dark,” advises Maria Silver. In the living room, the ceiling is covered with seven layers of a special finish, each of them has its own color, and a complex dark tone is obtained. With such a ceiling, the space acquires additional volume. And in this case, he also "holds" the space of the living room, gathers it together. Furniture was chosen to match the open space of a complex configuration: a fancifully curved color sofa, armchairs and a coffee table IL LOFT. (This furniture was created by designer Giorgio Saporiti especially for rooms such as studio and loft, which the brand name itself hints at.) Above the table is a chandelier in design Verner Panton, and over the sofa leaning floor lamp design Акandле Кастandльонand, classics of modern design. A group of upholstered furniture is located in the center of the living room opposite the fireplace, right in front of a large plasma panel. “Here you can have a noisy party for friends and spend a quiet evening in front of the fireplace with your girlfriend,” the architect comments on this interior solution.

Other rooms are just as functional: the office has everything to work comfortably at home, in the bedroom - to have a great rest. The bedroom is rather restrained: a solid massive bed and, in contrast to it, light “touches” of draperies in the form of a long fringe, light “mesh” chairs, similar to a revived sketch just released from the designer's pen. It is conceived that the second bedroom, while a guest, can change its purpose and become a children's room. According to the authors of the project, it was very important to make an interior capable of further development, to an independent life without them.

Maria Silver: “The style of this apartment (modern with eclectic elements) is determined by the personality of the owner - a promising young man, energetic and still single. His parents chose the flat for him, and they also advised him to work on an interior project with "House-A"because we have already made more than one object for them and for their eldest son. ”

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