Moscow restaurant "Grilyazh" Roman Malakhov, Vasily Soshnikov

Passing the gallery

Text: Julia Shaginurova

A photo: Elena Koldunova, Roman Shelomentsev

Architect: Roman Malakhov, Vasily Soshnikov

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The first hall of the Moscow restaurant "Grilyazh" is decorated in the style of a la Macintosh, combining austere monumentality with the richness of decor and sensuality. In the second hall, the more ornate Viennese Art Nouveau prevails ... The success of the restaurateur is largely predetermined by the legend with which he surrounds his establishment. The owner of the Griljazh wanted to create a restaurant in the best traditions of the end of the 19th century, allegedly transferred by inheritance from the founder of the trading house Smirnovykh Peter Arsenyevich. To the visitor of the famous house on Pyatnitskaya Street, 1, the “Grilyazh” seemed like the same part of the Moscow cultural and historical landscape as the Eliseevsky shop or the “tea house”. The physical embodiment of the mystery-mystification is an extraordinarily delicate task, in this case the authors work on two levels: they need to observe the accuracy of the historical detail and at the same time take into account the nuances of the cultural ideas of their contemporaries. Having changed the zoning of the store, which was located here earlier, the architects leveled the halls in style and color and began to elaborate the interior. Sketched furniture, lamps, carved details create the image of an old-time restaurant with sophisticated European cuisine. The accents are placed with the help of Australian and South American plants, which hint at the fascination with the colonial style fashionable at the end of the 19th century. A good hoax should be thought out to the smallest detail. Art deco lamps, aged wood, windows, for which the restaurateur lovingly selects antiquarian exhibits, work on the image of an old and at the same time living, developing interior, which it should be in the family institution, inheriting from grandfather to son, and then to grandson.