country house for weekends Maria Silver, Sergey Makushev

Passing the gallery

A photo: Alexey Knyazev

Text: Nadezhda Nadimova

Stylist: Eka Frampol

Project author: Maria Silver, Alla Baranovskaya

Lepnina: Ilya Raykov

Stone Works: Oleg Borisov

Metal works: Oleg Ivlev

Project Manager: Sergey Makushev

Magazine: Download

This house was bought not for permanent residence, but for holidays and festive parties. Initially, his vocation is to entertain, surprise, amaze imagination. Hence his style, invented and developed by the architects of the studio “Dom-A”, is fantasy, eclectic, sometimes built on paradoxical contrasts. The house will strike from the very beginning, when from a small, minimalist key of a decorated hallway you find yourself in a spacious hall with a staircase. Here, two huge (much more than a man’s height) knight-Atlanta, with their heads bowed in silence and their swords lowered, guarding the entrance to the living room. Their mighty stone figures are reflected in a black granite floor polished to a shine (as in an enchanted lake). This impressive medieval decoration sets up a further continuation of the knightly theme, the game of historical styles. But it was not there. In the living room, located behind an arch with stone guards, the real evil high-tech reigns with an abundance of metal, glass, neon light. This is the space for large parties, discos and club life. It includes a home cinema area, a bar (where the bar counter has been turned into an aquarium with river fish) and a dining area in a glass bay window with a huge oval table for 15 people. Glossy black ceiling, columns covered with steel sheets with neon lighting in capitals, black and gray granite floor, resembling a huge chessboard ... This is the interior. In addition to furniture, steel wire chandeliers and abstract paintings, its additional decoration and decoration is used by the equipment: musical equipment (including professional equipment for discos), lamps installed on steel farms, and, finally, the motorcycles standing on the dance floor are the pride of the owner. There are, of course, in the house of a room of another kind, intended for a more relaxing holiday and privacy. To get into them, you need to return to the knight's hall and climb the stairs to the second floor with elegant wrought iron railings. The latter prepares the transition from the high-tech ground floor to a more relaxed chamber style private zone. On the second floor there is a master bedroom, children's rooms and a small living room, where the owner of the house is resting among selected friends. Soft, rounded forms of chairs and sofas form a cozy chill out. The black rectangle of the fireplace stands out against the background of a decorative wall made of square onyx slabs. This glowing stone screen in the evening turns into a huge lantern night light. Its even diffused warm light echoes the flickering of fire in the fireplace. In general, the interior surprisingly brutality (black fireplace) is combined with elegance and even some magic. There are no allusions to the Middle Ages, but nevertheless it seems as if the familiar theme sounds again - the theme of the half-fairy knight's castle, which silent stone vassals are guarding day and night.Sergey Makushev: "Perhaps the style of the house can be defined as fusion. The variety of artistic techniques reflected the addictions of the owner, a young man, energetic. By the way, the owner so liked his house for weekends that he now lives in it permanently."