"everyone dreams of a unique interior"

Interviews with artists from the Beautiful Objects Workshop

Passing the gallery

Interview prepared: Oksana Kashenko

Magazine: Decor N5 (94) 2005

In Russia, the fashion for columns and stucco came at the end of the XVII century. Since then, almost no classic interior can do without them. We talked about the peculiarities of the author's interior elements with Alik Medzmariashvili and Ilya Raykov, working in the “Workshop of beautiful objects”Salon: Today in the minimalist interior you can find stucco on the ceiling and even a gilded cornice. Is this a fad? Alik Medzmariashvili: Of course, to some extent this is fashion. Ten years ago, both cornices, stucco moldings, and columns were used only in classical interiors. We were just starting our joint activities with Ilya. Columns and stucco were at that time the most popular design elements of a classic interior. And in modern interiors ordered, as a rule, only portals fireplaces. Now, little by little, people are coming to understand that practically any author's elements are appropriate in any interior. An example is the interiors of fashionable public institutions. Here you can see the combination of frank hi-tech and rich gilded baroque. People visit these places, look at the interior, are surprised first, and then get used to it. It does not seem to them that this mixture of styles hurt the eyes. They find harmony and logic in it. In Europe, after all, many people live in houses of two hundred or four hundred years old, with stucco or carved ceilings. And these houses are furnished with modern furniture. And they see no contradictions in such an environment.Ilya Raykov: Moreover, it seems to me that such elements as columns, stucco, paintings, enliven the interior. Judge for yourself: in the past, all furniture was original, often made specifically for a specific interior. And now the furniture is made by many thousands, and even multimillion copies. And no matter how beautiful it is, it will be inspired by this technologically conditioned coldness. Just because she was deprived of the warmth of human hands in the production process. We have already got used to using such things, but once someone is in the interior, where there is at least a fireplace portal created by masters with love, you immediately feel a different atmosphere. And remember the famous Shekhtel mansions! There lives and breathes every parquet, every painting, every bend of stucco. Modern interior needs precisely this man-made. Without her, he is gray and sad. Everyone dreams of a unique interior. But the exclusive happens only in a single copy. Our horse - things unique. We invent them together with architects, it is often necessary to develop new textures ourselves to implement our ideas.S: At what point in the work on the interior, in your opinion, is it better to turn to the help of the specialists of the Workshop?A.M .: There were cases when they came to us even after the furniture was arranged. The interior, which looked beautiful in the picture, turned out to be empty and cold in life. And we took up his revival. In such cases, painting on the burnt marble can play a saving role. It looks like a fresco on a piece of wall taken from some Italian palazzo. It was the same, and the fireplaces were arranged in an almost finished interior. But I think that these are all extreme cases.IR: Of course, the ideal situation is when the architect comes to us at the initial design stage, when the style is clear, the layout is also, but the interior has not yet been worked out.

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