personal account of a Moscow businessman design bureau Papillon

Passing the gallery

A photo: Vitaly Nefedov

Text: Dilara Muradova

Workshop Leader: Victor Antipov

Magazine: N6 (73) 2003

The starting point for the author of this interior, Viktor Antipov, was the pyramid-shaped ceiling - a volume resembling futuristic buildings in the spirit of Zamyatinsky "We". This workspace is not an office in the usual sense, but one of the private offices of a Moscow businessman, intended for business meetings. Therefore, there are no familiar computers, telephone stations and storage systems, but there is a whole arsenal of decorating techniques. The architect proposed replacing the traditional classic for the head office with a spectacular solution in a futuristic spirit. The modern Moscow landscape is closed with light translucent curtains. Inside - the interior of the era of victorious surrealism, fantasy on the theme "Salvador Dali. Three hundred years later." The only quote is artificially aged frescoes, reproductions of the first and last Dali paintings on triangles of the ceiling. The rest of the futuristic volume created purely interior means. The second level is a platform fixed on metal supports with a glass "window" in the floor. Such use of glass creates conditions for manipulation of space: thanks to its widespread use, the interior seems almost illusory, divorced from reality, more precisely, if we follow the logic of its author, elevated above it. The interior interpretation of surrealism turned out to be so convincing that the owner of the office, a staunch lover of the classics, also imbued with it. Not so long ago, at one of the auctions, he purchased a statuette of Salvador Dali and is now looking for the famous “Molten watches” for his collection.