The apartment is located in a house built in 1953 by the design of the architect Fromsel for the academic elite of Leningrad. The high status of the building was found in everything: in the location on the fashionable Kamennoostrovsky Prospect, in the expressive powerful facade in the style of Stalin's Empire, and even in the layout, not at all typical of that era. The apartment had two entrances, front and black, spacious living room with bay window, framed by two Tuscan columns, and even a room for servants. But she was not long. After the “downsizing” directive from luxury apartments, it turned into a banal communal apartment. This is what the current owners saw in the mid-90s.

Before the authors of the project was a difficult task. First of all, it was necessary to free the space from the late "cultural layer" in the form of corridors and partitions in order to get closer to the concept of Victor Fromsel. Next, it was necessary to take into account its stylistic "matrix". In addition, the owners to the beginning of work on the interior have already acquired several items (in particular, antique empire chandelier), which should be used in the new project. The stylistic tone was set, it remains only to strike a balance between the past and the present. The apartment was returned to its former high status, and in terms of the set of functions, it fully corresponds to the ideas of today. For example, the new owners were not enough one front hallway. "She was, rather, a theatrical mise-en-scene, once built by an architect," says Tatyana Magzumova. Поэтому появился просторный холл, который принято называть рабочим, но выглядит он весьма торжественно. Причем columns, украшающие его интерьер, несут не только декоративную, но и функциональную нагрузку, поддерживая перекрытия. Исторические columns in the living room were saved, but became slimmer and acquired order clarity thanks to the new capital. On both sides of bay window two deep ones were revealed niches, conceived once by the architect Fromsel, which gave the space a composite completeness.