restaurant "Golden Ostap" (St. Petersburg) Nikolay Ivanov, Tatyana Ivanova Nikolay and Tatyana Ivanov designed the modern interior of the restaurant "Golden Ostap" in modern style

Passing the gallery

Text: Nadezhda Serebryakova

A photo: George Shablovsky

Project author: Nikolay Ivanov, Tatyana Ivanova

Magazine: Na (47) 2001

If, walking from the Griboyedov Canal to the Russian Museum, you did not stumble upon the bronze figure of Ostap Bender, then you simply walked along another street. Meanwhile, in the house N 3 on Italian recently opened a new restaurant "Golden Ostap", the interior of which unexpectedly began to attract gourmands ... from architecture. Among the many attempts to recreate the modern style of the modern style, it is difficult to find its exact replica, basically only "motives and analogies" are guessed. Here - not so. The authors of the project took seriously the wishes of the customer, offering him a modern interpretation of the old style. Of course, it would be foolish to look for historical prototypes. The genre of this interior is a free interpretation, in which, nevertheless, all the main elements of shaping are observed. Applied not only decorative techniques of modern, but also his favorite materials, in particular, a textbook combination of oak carving and ceramic tiles of deep blue and green colors. By the way, it was the color that became the main "identifying mark" of the four halls of the restaurant - blue, blue, green and gold (banquet), in the interior of which, along with gilding, a dark green tile was used. Wall paintings, whose virtuosity is worthy of easel painting, became an indisputable interior decoration. Tiny pop music contributes to the creation of the atmosphere of the beginning of the century. And when the pianist lifts the lid of the old piano (it seems that at the beginning of the century the word “piano” was not yet in use), the evening sounds of the megalopolis fade away, and the prefix St.