The apartment is located in the penthouse of a multi-storey building and occupies two floors. The area is impressive - about 800 square meters. meters Also impressive is the ceiling height - 6 meters - and a huge window, actually a glazed wall. It can be said that this is an apartment with a palace scale, but intended for a modern urban lifestyle, requiring comfort and functionality from the interior. In principle, in this case there was too much space, it was empty and cold. Architect Natalya Babiyevskaya set itself the task of humanizing these almost inhuman scales. The space needed to be thickened, filled with warmth and meaning. In addition, it needed to be structured, to make a logical and simple layout, to turn the emptiness into space. The classical laws of composition were called to help in the implementation of the goals. A large number of rooms in the apartment was not required: the owner lives alone. Therefore, we decided not to shallow the layout, but to leave a few main living areas - the living room, the bedroom, the SPA area, etc.

Each room, although the word "hall" is more appropriate here, is built on the classical principle: there is a clearly defined center in which the axes of space intersect. In the living room, this center is marked symbolically - a large golden ball on a pedestal. It stands on a granite podium decorated with marble mosaic with golden circles. In fact, this is omphalus - a stone that was the center of the world in ancient mythology. If we consider what panorama opens from a giant window in the living room, then such symbolism, in general, is not accidental - here you really feel like in the center of the world. But on the other hand, the story of the appearance of this building was almost like that of Akhmatova: "if you knew from what rubbish ..." somewhat unfortunate architect built. The dome with pillars was originally in the room, the pillars were carrying, but a little out of place. It was impossible to remove all this for technical reasons. It is impossible to remove, but you can turn the flaws into an artistic device, as the author did, by thickening the paint and turning the builders fad into a miracle of decoration.

Natalya used the most luxurious colors and textures - gold, gloss black, and it turned out to be a glamorous installation in the center of a huge living room, almost the main hall. Often, the halls of hotels, and, indeed, many palaces, are similarly decorated. Functional zones are logically located around this installation - a sofa, a dining room, a fireplace. And the walls are lined so as to make the space as saturated as possible, to create a feeling of completeness. For this, four types of veneer were used: rosewood, ebony, ash root, maple root. Such a variety was needed so that the huge walls were not monotonous and overwhelming, so that the decoration would have contrasts that enliven the interior. And in general, the style of the living room resembles the samples of American Art Deco, impressive and expensively decorated.

An association with American art deco interiors also occurs in the bedroom. "I was told that the bedroom looked like presidential suites in some New York hotel," says Natalya Babiyevskaya- that, in general, corresponds to the preferences of the landlord. The bedroom is located directly under the living room, and the same supporting columns continue in it, between which there is the compositional center of the room. To beat them, the author decided to place the bed in the center of the bedroom, and not traditionally - against the wall. It is wonderful that other spaces of the apartment are built on the same principle: in the center of the SPA zone there is a small round pool, in the center of the bathroom there is a shower cabin. And this is an important psychological point. The apartment dweller constantly feels in the center, he is its center and receives the maximum satisfaction from life.

Project author Natalya Babiyevskaya: "The columns were originally in the penthouse, and it was impossible to remove them. We decided to use the principle laid down in the room itself. It was the columns and their relationship with the circular ceiling-roof line that dictated the composition built according to the classical laws"