It is believed that in our country the fashion for a bright, colorful and luxurious oriental style was first introduced by Grigory Potemkin, who brought a sofa unknown from Russia and the habit of reclining on it from Turkish hikes. After the second Russian-Turkish war, everything Eastern became fashionable again - architect Alexander Bryullov even designed a Moorish-style bathroom in the Winter Palace. Later, court architect Hippolytus Monighetti built a Turkish bath in Tsarskoye Selo, resembling a mosque with a minaret.

Architect Anna Gafiatullina from the architectural bureau at the construction company Guevarius believes that the oriental style is still relevant today: , brought from traveling to exotic places, the fact that this interior is not only easy to complement, but also to change. It is necessary to hang other curtains, change the fabric on the pillows, and the atmosphere will be different. strict rules and restrictions. "

The source of inspiration for the author of the project was the ancient Venetian palazzo. It is known that the Moorish style most fully manifested itself in Spain, but in Venice, this commercial, pirate city-state, where the East met with the West, its influence was also very strong. Perhaps the most Venetian in spirit was a living room on the first floor. Bright, decorated with stucco ceilings made in the Oriental style (such composing ceilings with caissons were borrowed by the Spaniards from the Arabs and were called "artesonado"), but the gilded twisted columns and winged lions on both sides of the fireplace are typical elements of the Venetian style. The kitchen was more restrained than the living room adjacent to it. It also has a purple color, but the decor is much smaller. The entrance to the kitchen is blocked by a wrought iron grill. "In the Venetian palazzo you can often find lattices instead of doors. Once they were needed to defend against suddenly attacking enemies. But now they have become a purely decorative element," says the architect.

The second floor of this house turned out not so much eastern, as European. Here the influence of the English style is clearly felt. "For me, diversity was important in the interior. If you go upstairs, the feeling of the interior will change. You decide that you are in the house of an Englishman who traveled a lot around the world and decided to surround himself with a variety of things he saw Anna.