кафе "Рафинад" в Ростове-на-Дону Alexander Dorokhov, Максим Дейнеко, Владимир Соловьев

Passing the gallery

A photo: Peter Lebedev

Text: Oksana Kashenko

Leading headings: Nina Farizova

Project author: Alexander Dorokhov

Designer: Vladimir Solovyov, Maxim Deineko

Magazine: N (98) 2005

Have you ever been to Russian museums-estates in the off-season, when the museum seems extinct, all the furniture is in linen covers and funny canvas bags are stretched on the chandeliers? The author of the interior of the cafe "Rafinad" (Rostov-on-Don, Pushkinskaya st., 151) Alexander Dorokhov had occasion to see it, it seems, more than once. But he didn’t stop only at the reproduction of such an atmosphere, but went further in his research: the interior gives the impression of a mansion from the end of the 19th century, from which the masters had left a long time ago, and new, sometimes random people are already building their own order. Chairs and chairs are collected from different headsets ... The ceiling is cracked, there are old books in the closets, beds are used instead of sofas. Only the restroom remained unchanged, where so are forgotten toys and ballroom shoes.