Conciseness and even some severity of artistic solutions, an impressive combination of deaf gray and golden yellow, modern furniture, vintage accessories brought from all over the world, and beautiful examples of modern domestic painting and photography. Add crazy views from the windows — to the New Arbat and the Ukraine Hotel, to the Midsummer’s high-rise and high-rise building on Vosstaniya Square (it’s important that the windows have a full glazing and the 13th floor) ... This spectacular interior did not start easily. Alla Shumeyko recalls that at the time of her acquaintance with her, the owners had already ordered a 3D-project to the designers and, having received it, were disappointed. “I asked to be shown to me, and was forced to agree with the owners: this is not so,” Alla tells. “I was struck by a fresco in the living room — a view of Venice that contrasted badly with the Moscow city landscape outside the windows. The approach to the interior had to be radically changed. I immediately had an image of the future space, and in order to visually show the owners what I offer, in a week I collected almost the entire project in boards. ” (Bord — from the English board — development by the decorator of the project on the plane of the board, using sketches, photographs, and samples of materials.)

The house is new, modern, with windows in the floor. This is a modern type of dwelling, and therefore it was quite logical to assume that in such a house there would look like a “city-style” organically — in other words, an interior in the style of “urban chic” that Alla Shumeiko suggested. For customers, fans of the classics, this was a real change of milestones. However, having made a decision, they already unconditionally trusted the author of the project, only asked not to change anything in the layout: she was completely satisfied with them. The layout actually turned out to be logical and comfortable: from the hallway you find yourself in a spacious hall, to the right — the front part of the apartment (living room and kitchen – dining room separated by an opening), to the left — private (children's rooms, as well as the parents' bedroom, their bathroom and dressing room, designed separate block). “I wanted to combine this interior with the city,” the author of the project recounts. Therefore, the work of Vladimir Klavikho – Telepnev appeared in the hallway — a photo of the main entrance to the Exhibition of Economic Achievements. This is parallel to the city, high-rise windows. I put not granite on the floor, but granite (“street” theme). Both the walls and the ceiling are of the same color — gray, which makes the room look like a casket. Gray color itself looks tough, so I diluted it with gold. It was a fine, balanced combination. ”

Gray is also “about the city”, and it is not without reason that it serves as the basis for the color solution in all the main rooms. However, everywhere he is beaten differently. In the living room, he is made up of golden shades: saffron-yellow armchairs, brass in the border of the tables, gold on the hair of the heroines of the painting by Andrei Remnev. Reflected in a large smoky mirror, these colors acquire a new sound. (It is enough to press the button of the console — and a huge mirror, resembling a fireplace portal, will turn into a television set.) In the dining room, the gray color is significantly diluted with white, and the proportion of white is larger, and this creates a joyful, upbeat mood. And in the private part of the apartment, active, bright colors appear as accents: turquoise (in the office) and coral (in the bedroom).

As a kind of color pole is present in this apartment and completely black bathroom. However, he is just not “completely” black: his wall is decorated with paintings (flowers of wisteria, made by artist Alena Vilyukova in a romantic manner), and on the ceiling is a crystal chandelier MECHINI, illuminated from the outside. The Florentine chandelier, in which among the flowers are dragonflies hiding, and the wisteria blooming in the darkness implicitly, subtly reminiscent of Italy. But not only about her. Also about something bigger.

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