"cooker" of ostojet

Coffee "Bakka" (Moscow) Nika Paradashvili

Passing the gallery

A photo: Mikhail Stepanov

Text: Julia Shaginurova

Architect: Nika Paradashvili

Magazine: H (65) 2002

In the first hall there really are two beautiful old stoves: antiques, discovered by chance after breaking walls in an old Moscow house. The space was shaped and dictated the conditions as new layers were exposed. It seems that the original idea of ​​a cafe in the style of pop art canceled the house itself. It became a pity to close the uneven brickwork, to part with the copper knobs, furnace dampers and a little stupid layout of Moscow housing. Architect-designer Nika Paradashvili decided to use the texture "presented" to him by the city's history. The Pechok interior (26 Ostozhenka St.) is built on a skillful combination of simple materials: stone, glass, forged parts, tiles. However, the main elements here are soft humor and an unmistakable sense of detail. Light corrugated curtains, swings instead of bar stools, aquariums suspended above the tables placed the necessary accents: it turned out to be a warm, very Moscow place where irony and soulful meet where you want to come again to continue the conversation, in which the main thing is not words but intonation.

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