Andreevskaya embankment - a historic place. Today, here, on the Sparrow Hills, near the Moscow River, not far from the Andreevsky Monastery, a small residential complex has been built. One of the authors of the project, Dmitry Korshunov, recalls that it was a two-story space without partitions, with an opening punched for the stairs.

On the top floor, the architects planned all the main living rooms, from the living room to the bedrooms, and on the bottom floor - an office, a guest room and utility rooms. The space of the hall, living room, dining room and kitchen is conceived (and implemented) as open and flowing, and the private rooms — the bedroom and the nursery with bathrooms and dressing rooms — are placed in a separate unit.

Customers worked in the United States and were very keen on the idea of ​​an American loft, so the question about the appearance of future housing did not even stand: the owners immediately decided that this would be a loft. Although our Russian loft is still different. We have not got accustomed to the idea of ​​mastering the former factory spaces by the residential sector. Hence a slightly different aesthetics: there are no huge spaces, there are no brutal factory pipes and beams in the interior, more and more chamberly and ... more bourgeois. The furniture is not only laconic "chopped" forms, but also classical ones - an office sofa, a buffet in Provence style. In the bedroom in the make-up zone there is a mirror dressing table with a large baroque print. Lamps - one of the most stylish, designer, from MOOOI, a symbiosis of a classic crystal chandelier and a modern cylindrical ceiling. Highlighted, the modern dining room group subtly, half-hints, beats up a whole range of historical furniture styles.

The color scheme used is almost monochrome, the so-called natural, with soft transitions from creamy white to brown. From materials - noble woods, marble. All this somewhat softens the rigidity of the typical loft style.

In such a context, both the metal I-beams, the kitchen wall tinted under rusty iron, and the walls lined with bricks deliberately chipped and uneven, and the radiators on the walls look almost like objects of art. By the way, this apartment would not be itself if it were not for the fashionable painting of the modern artist Lucy Popenko.

Dmitry Bykov: "We were very interested in working on this object. We liked, first, the idea proposed by the apartment owners to make a loft in a Moscow apartment. And second, we were lucky with the customers: these are young, energetic, educated, train people around the world, with great taste. So we communicated with pleasure and made an apartment in one breath "

Dmitry Korshunov: "Loft as a large universal space makes it easy to get on with different styles. The light is modern, the furniture is somewhere ar-dekosomewhere modern bourgeois in the spirit of light country music. It seems to us that we have something on this subject "