two-level apartment (270 m2) in St. Petersburg Andrey Galushko

Passing the gallery

A photo: Peter Lebedev

Text: Nikolay Fedyanin

Stylist: Tatyana Bakanova

Architect: Andrei Galushko

Magazine: N6 (84) 2004

This Petersburg apartment seems somewhat eclectic. The author of the project, architect Andrei Galushko, does not deny this. He says that he wanted to create a modern apartment in which the spirit of old Petersburg would be felt. Thus, elements of the Dutch and French styles appeared in the interior: a fragment of a painting by Rubens became the background for a minimalist kitchen in the dining room, and a replica of an old fireplace from the times of Louis XIV appeared in the living room Petersburg architect Andrei Galushko faced a difficult task - to create from the attic room with a complex roof and high (5.5 meters in the ridge) ceilings a cozy and stylish two-floor apartment. There were no partitions in this room, so all the walls had to be rebuilt. The ground floor has become an open area: there are a spacious living room, a kitchen-dining room, a two-level children's room and a dressing room. On the second floor there are more private areas. In the living room there are two staircases - one leads to the library above the hallway, the other - to the bedroom and even higher, to the third level, where a small turret equipped an office, from whose windows a wide panoramic view of the city opens. Above the nursery is another room where the child reads and does homework. Most of all the architect gave the living room. A high horse, a weak light penetrating into a room from narrow windows - all this contributes little to creating an atmosphere of coziness and comfort. The architect decided not only to push apart, but also to “straighten” the space a bit: he “pushed” the entrance to the apartment further, towards the staircase, brought window openings to the floor at the door leading to the balcony, hacked opposite the entrance, above the hallway and the library, one additional window and made a horizontal hinged ceiling, which rests on powerful beams. No less spectacular was the bedroom, adjacent to the bathroom. In this apartment the bathroom is decorated as a showcase for an expensive boutique: behind a thick transparent glass, behind a heavy luxurious curtain there is a snow-white beauty bath like a boat on a marble pedestal. A lover of sonorous metaphors would say that this boat continues the theme of the city in the interior, and probably would have remembered about the famous boat of Peter the Great. But perhaps such an elegant architectural solution does not need additional comments.Andrei Galushko: “I wanted the vital here” ... the smell of tobacco and leather ... ”This is an association with Peter (remember the novel“ Petersburg ”by Andrei Bely?), With the birth and development of his city. Therefore, this is Holland, France, Flemish and, of course, Russia - the north, the Neva ... "