This apartment in St. Petersburg is more like a country house. The two-light living room space, an impressive turn of the stairs, a fireplace, a feeling of free space, air volume, and most importantly - thoroughness, a special slowness, which seems to be more characteristic of suburban life (and suburban interiors in particular).

If we look at the plans of the two levels of the apartment, we see that they resemble a fragment of a clock mechanism in a greatly enlarged form, the circumference and semicircle provide the course of this interior mechanism. And in a sense, the way it is: a feeling of irregular, free space arises just from here, from a spatial game of rounded, streamlined architectural forms, somewhere additionally accentuated with the help of furniture - a round table with chairs or, for example, a sofa in the form of an irregular oval . Of course, it is impossible to call this architecture bionic, but it is possible to speak of some hints of bionic architecture techniques. So, the stairs, like a climbing plant, spiraling up, "hugging" the dining area. And then, going up to the second level, there is an oval cut-out of the ceiling and a chandelier coming down from this cut-out.

I ask Andrei Galushko how the idea of ​​such an unusual staircase was born. “It grew out of a rather prosaic task,” the architect recalls. “It was necessary to make a staircase in a strictly defined place, taking into account the design features of two apartments located one above the other (and initially these were exactly two apartments). We came up with four different options, including the staircase in high-tech style, but this option - in ethnic style - turned out to be the best, and we settled on it. " The ladder was made of thick plywood glued in several layers, primed, polished, tinted and covered with a matte varnish, so that it looks nobly like an array of wood. But her constructive qualities are completely different than those of a solid wood. What is worth only the fact that the staircase fence serves as a supporting structure! Although, looking at his openwork ornament, it is difficult to believe.

“We applied the drawing to the finished staircase,” says Andrew, “without any computer technology, manually, and then cut out. The motive was ethnic, and the ethnic was perfectly combined with ar-deko - The style that we used in the interior. Historically, this style loves the exotic. "In this sense, the perfect example is wooden skul-ptura brought by the owners from the journey. Now it decorates one of the living room walls - home theater. Or the wall painting of the cabinet is an exact copy of an old Afghan fresco, but performed in a complex modern relief technique. Or take the example of an “exotic” of a completely different kind - from the technical field. A lift is installed in the kitchen, a kind of mini-elevator delivering drinks and food directly to the home theater is located This is in addition to the stairs, another link between the two levels. The first level has an entrance hall, a kitchen and a dining room, as well as children's rooms. (There are four children and the whole floor is given to them.) The second is the parents' apartments. In addition to the living room - home cinema there are the master bedroom, bathroom and dressing room, as well as the study, the one with the "Afghan" painting, which also serves as a guest room.

Andrei Galushko: "We made a two-level apartment for a large family. Entrance is from the lower level. There is a kitchen, a dining room and children's rooms. On the second level there is a living room with a home cinema, an office and a bedroom. the style is close to customers who travel a lot and are particularly partial to Southeast Asia. "