two-level apartment with a total area of ​​150 m2 Milena Pirova

Passing the gallery

A photo: Evgeny Luchin

Text: Anna Gedymin

Designer: Vadim Barabonin

Painter: Milena Pirova, Bato Dobuzhieva

Magazine: N4 (38) 2000

And when life became completely unbearable, I wanted peace and happiness. To walk through the insanely beautiful rooms of his apartment, to drink fine wine from beautiful wine glasses, to be buried in an armchair that no one else has in this foul city. To live in a flower. Feel like a bone inside the apricot. This is my world! This is just for me! It's me! The most difficult thing in the world is to be a customer (for example, a customer of your own interior). You pay money and, as far as you can, explain your vague desires to strangers. Of course, they look at you as an idiot and somehow try to cheat - either by realizing your own ambitions at your expense, or by selling home-made stuff, or ... But you have only one life! And you want to live it wrong! After painful searches and doubts, the customer chose the interior designer Milena Pirova. First, her respectable and, as a rule, regular customers said in chorus that she "can do anything." Secondly, the already implemented projects were impressive. The fact that Milena took over this work was amazing. Paradise hulls needed to be organized on the site of two - one above the other - two-bedroom apartments with an area of ​​60 m² each Moreover, 20 meters away immediately went to the staircase and the space adjacent to it. What happened next? The client was called the amount for which he will receive everything - from full decoration to dishes, bed linen and slippers. The uniqueness of all items was guaranteed: they were either custom-made in Italy or supplied from Italian prestigious firms focused on a narrow circle. They also guaranteed that in three months the customer would find his fairy-tale world. So, all the formalities were settled. And then a real nightmare began - a nightmare of the uncompromising struggle of interior creators for the realization of the client’s cherished dream. No concessions to the circumstances, or even strict spatial laws. You say 120 square meters? But no! You will have a huge house! No guest dares to guess the true footage! You will have a luxurious living room, merging in an unforgettable, gentle glow with a captivating kitchen and lounge. For this, they designed an incredible and at the same time extremely calm furniture, with every line of their outlines a deceiving glance - in favor of expanding the space. For this endlessly they picked up color-in-color wood, upholstery, draperies, and marble. And suddenly there is an overlay: the marble obtained from Italy did not quite coincide in tone with the surroundings. What to do? - Like what? Order a new one! Urgently, at exorbitant prices, in Moscow, at the expense of the author of the project. Sometimes it was literally breathtaking. For example, when it turned out that the staircases of a building are too narrow to transport bulky items. After a few minutes of hitch, a crane was called and the furniture was moved by air (and the floor is not one of the first). When literally a few days before the commissioning of the object, the author of the project said that a completely unusual television was needed - not Loewe, but the Grundig of a new generation who had not yet entered production - the customer nearly had a stroke. Yes that she, really! They were just headlong looking for a TV in the nursery - in a yellow and only yellow case ... Maybe it's better as it is, eh? His thoughts were interrupted by the advent of the experimental Grundig model. Such a TV at that time existed only in two copies. And what is nice ... And exactly three months later, one day a day ... You are not expecting anything and do not believe in anything. You unlock the door of your apartment, enter - and freeze. What do you feel? You feel empty. And - happiness. It is finished. You are surrounded by an infinitely dear, dreamy, fostered world, seen a thousand times in dreams. You want to scream from these crazy colors of spring! I want to cry! I want to live! To live only here - “where bird singing doesn’t shut up either at night or during the day, where jasmine does not fade neither in winter nor in summer” ...