Do you think loft is out of fashion? Is it too much? Believe me, it is not. This style is still ahead

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Text: Marina Yushkevich

Magazine: №10 (231) 2017

The history of the loft began in America, more precisely, even - in New York during the Great Depression. Then the deserted factories and plants began to fill the bohemian public, using minimal means to inhabit abandoned industrial spaces.

Dumbo Quarter next to the Manhattan Bridge

New York was built at the height of the industrial revolution as a major industrial center and port. Therefore, here the whole blocks are built up with buildings of factories and warehouses. Today these are bohemian areas with residential and creative lofts.

New York was built at the height of the industrial revolution as a major industrial center and port. Therefore, here the whole blocks are built up with buildings of factories and warehouses. Today these are bohemian areas with residential and creative lofts.

Dumbo Quarter next to the Manhattan Bridge

The first lofts - the former empty workshops and warehouses with huge windows, high ceilings, filled with furniture, which was made right there from wallowing pallets, some remnants of machines or brought from flea markets, and numerous modern art that worked right there. Bohemian inhabitants filled the first half-empty spaces with such a tremendous creative life, that a more respectable audience, who fell in love with this atmosphere of carelessness and freedom, stretched into them.

Loft in Paris is always a curiosity, and not because this style is not close to the Parisians, but because there are few historically industrial buildings in the French capital.

An old foundry on Hauteville Street was rebuilt by architect Vincent Echalle in a complex of 17 lofts. One of them Vincent also designed the interior: light, bright, as they like in Paris. But with noticeable industrial traits