квртира площадью 142 м2 в Санкт-Петербурге Татьяна Магзумова, Hasan Magzumov

Passing the gallery

Text: Olga Gvozdeva

A photo: Peter Lebedev

Architect: Татьяна Магзумова, Hasan Magzumov

Finishing work: Alexander Belik

Magazine: N10 (66) 2002

Tatiana and Khasan Magzumov are an architectural couple known in St. Petersburg. However, the new work made them speak of them as virtuoso decorators. The interior created by them vividly demonstrates that the fashionable fusion style has taken root on the banks of the Neva, confirming the historical status of St. Petersburg as a “window to Europe” Europe, meanwhile, is tired of purely seasoned styles. For many decades, three geniuses reigned in the hearts of Europeans: Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius. According to the apt expression of the teacher of "Bauhaus" Laszlo Mokhoy-Nadia, "the modern movement in architecture was conceived as a religion with one true prophet from the three patriarchs, who challenged each other the right to grace." In this battle of the titans mere mortality was prepared for only one fate: to believe and worship. Mies van der Rohe's aphorism Less is more turned into a mantra read by more than one generation of designers. What happened in the interior design over the past few years can be compared with the revolution. The style of fusion, or more simply eclecticism, forced to speak of oneself as a serious artistic phenomenon. Probably the next decade we will have to live under the motto Less is bore, until someone offers a decent alternative. The new interior in St. Petersburg fully meets the spirit of the era. It is syncretic, but there is a dominant note in this chord: its prototype was the image of a house in Provence, free from the dogma of any one style. Like a bouquet of Provençal flowers, which French perfumers love so much, it consists of many exquisite shades, and each of them brings its own “fragrance” into the range. Hallway solved in the colonial spirit. It is not just a "buffer" between the outer and inner worlds. It can rather be called a gateway for movement in time and space - from Petersburg to Provence. The living room is traditionally combined with the dining room. This room does not have a pronounced stylistic orientation, but it has clearly classical roots, as evidenced by an irresistible craving for symmetry. The walls are painted in the color of old paper, their task is to play the role of a neutral mat for the surrounding space. All the inevitable modern stuffing - TV, audio system - delicately hidden in the cabinets. Two of them - in the Chinese style - make out the entrance to the kitchen. The ethnic style is not accidental here, from here the hallway is clearly visible, extending its colonial veil to this part of the living room. Moreover, the oriental theme was even exaggerated, placing console and chinoiserie vases over the cabinets. The entrance to the kitchen is decorated with a portal with transparent glass doors. In this room the fusion style reached its climax. The strictly functional BULTHAUP kitchen is adjacent to the ideally authentic GRANGE buffet. The bedroom is a vivid example of such an arrangement, when it seems that the interior is not the fruit of the designer’s painstaking work, but the living environment that has taken shape in the “natural conditions” over the course of several generations. Exquisite colors are built on the finest combination of shades. Furniture seems to be aiming for complete stylistic diffusion. And yet, having a sensitive ear, it is impossible not to “hear” Art Deco here (American furniture BAKER could make the company the masterpieces of the king of art deco - Jacques Emile Ruhlman). Not only space, but also time in the interior, fusion turns into a convention: sometimes it starts to seem like the clock hand is moving in the opposite direction.Hasan Magzumov: "It was important for us, without following a certain style, to create a house in which objects from different eras and styles could be organically combined - both ethnic and classical. The house is rational and romantic at the same time, which would be the soul of more than one generation and could exist in any part of Europe. "