near Moscow private house with a total area of ​​540 m2 Svetlana Pisarskaya

Passing the gallery

Interview prepared: Dilara Muradova

A photo: Karen Manko

Project author: Svetlana Pisarskaya

Architect: Valeria Lebedeva, Galina Druzhinina

Individual interior elements: Roman Cherkov

Design: Kirill Yakushin

Magazine: N1 (68) 2003

Svetlana Pisarskaya about new architectural trends and their use in her own work: "The house is located in Yusupov Park, which used to belong to the Arkhangelskoye estate. There is a very beautiful forest, old pines .... In the design, I wanted to be even more restrained than usual to to preserve the power of this nature. From here there is a long façade, which is in fact not decorated by anything, except for the texture of the masonry itself. The house is very different even from neighboring buildings. It seems to me that it was not without the influence of Italian architecture. chenny scale goes from somewhere in Venice, as this striped masonry ... "SALON: How would you define the overall design of the project? - The house is located in the Yusupov Park, which used to belong to the Arkhangelskoe estate. There is a very beautiful forest, old pines .... In this project I wanted to be even more restrained than usual, in order to preserve the power of this nature. From here - the long facade, in fact, not decorated by anything, unless the texture of the masonry itself. The house is very different even from neighboring buildings. It seems to me that this was not without the influence of Italian architecture. The exaggerated scale comes from somewhere in Venice, like this striped pattern. I am not very keen on form-making, so I love texture. The walls inside are also not decorated. Somewhere the texture is manifested - they are not everywhere even. It seems to me that the decoration of the structure - for example, the pasting of the walls - is much weaker than the materiality of the things themselves. When one thing is old, rough, another is new, shiny to madness, the third is wool, the fourth is shaggy, the fifth is bald, special sensations appear, and they are necessary in the interior. The interior is designed in the spirit of fusion ideas. It seems to me that this tendency will sometime lead to the formation of some kind of style. What it will be called, I do not know. But the point is that on the basis of some modern forms and modern view of architecture, something will arise that will not follow known directions, but will try to mix them. Style can not come up. Where, say, appeared modern? After all, not Fyodor Shekhtel invented it. He was the last, or the first, or the best, who worked in this style, but the ground was already prepared for him. In “Petrovich,” for example, a certain public gathers who understands what we wanted to do here. So, people are ready to accept the new.S: Do you think fusion is another eclectic option? Fusion is always a mix ... What do you prefer to mix? - No, it's not eclectic. There is absolutely no decoration. And I mix everything that I like. I love to travel, and all fabrics are brought from India. Tortoise furs for fireplaces purchased in Morocco. For two years after visiting Tibet, I have a “red” period - I have never before loved this color - hence the curtain-like curtains and chairs ...S: How do you decide that these items can exist together in the same interior? - It's very simple. So, recently in the house appeared golden antique frame. With deep carving, as from the iconostasis. Totally barbaric. But with the acquisition of this antique frame, the interior too goes into a state of bourgeois abundance, excessive objectivity. This does not at all correspond to my current worldview, and in such cases I buy, for example, such a glass high chair. Then the balance, in my opinion, becomes normal. Yes, this antique frame, but this does not mean that I am going to continue to buy antique frames.S: And would you like to do something completely different, for example, in the spirit of a Russian manor? - The fact is that not far from the house there is a real estate, so any replica on this topic would not withstand any competition. There was no internal doubt, no. It seems to me that there is no other solution here. This is the only one.Svetlana Pisarskaya: "This house is an attempt to work out of style. In a luxurious pine forest there is a naive simple volume in which there is nothing decorated in space. It is filled with objects that are stylistically unrelated. The art, in fact, is to make it all live together. In my opinion, it worked. "