A house without an office is not a house today, any architect will tell you. The English armchair, the green lamp shade, the cigars, the fireplace — everything we dreamed of as a child, honoring Bulgakov and Conan Doyle — is a reality. But the question is: why do we need them now?

Passing the gallery

Leading headings: Dilara Muradova

Magazine: Na (80) 2004

The current cabinet wave could be called the “cabinet revival”, the “triumphal return of the cabinet” or even the “cabinet flood”. A house without an office is not a house today, any architect will tell you. The English armchair, the green lamp shade, the cigars, the fireplace — everything we dreamed of as a child, reading Bulgakov and Conan Doyle, is a reality. But the question is: why do we need them now?E-mail In Juliet 2003 September. "In Verona, where events meet us," in the house of Juliet (the very Juliet!) They show another project. Visitors climb the stairs, view the paintings and furniture, pass through the dining room and stop in the ... office. Here are 4 computers in rusty cases on an eight-table table. In computers everything is fair, including mail and the Internet. It is not excluded that in 20 centuries, when people forget about when a computer was invented, everyone will be sure that this is the real, Juliette one, it looks so plausible. The author of the project, architect Pucci De Rossi (Pucci De Rossi), said that he had aged him on purpose for two reasons: "to match the spirit of the environment" and "to come closer to Shakespeare's era, to reveal the spirit of velvet and swords, rustle of fabrics and metal chime, collision love and death. " Juliet E-mail: [email protected]. Write to. She will answer ... Since the course has been set for universal consolidation in us and universal functionality for them (which, however, both they and we had the same reason - the lack of living space), home offices have practically disappeared . We drew our ideas about them from films and books. So it turned out that by the time when there was more space, and the number of supporters of functionality was smaller, our classrooms turned out to be a literary-cinematic phenomenon. The present situation - depending on the age of the office owner - is determined by Sherlock Holmes and Stirlitz. Future - it is possible that the "Children of Spies-2."Russian Sherlock Holmes did more for English cabinets than Chippendale and Macintosh combined. To him, and only to him, we are obliged to the fact that 90% of the offices in our country are English. How do we get this? Elementary, Watson: the owners keep in them not only English furniture, but also pipes, cigars and even violins. The latter, however, quite rarely. Cabinets in the spirit of "Seventeen Moments of Spring" prefers the older generation, for whom it is - a memory of youth.Architects Andrei Karpenko, Tatiana Gornova, Natalia Danelyuk ("Bureau of Social Engineering"). Cabinets, writing desk, side tables for office equipment are made according to sketches of architects. Lamp, Mariner. Armchairs, Frighetto. Chair at the table, AlivarWork question In Latin, "office" - studio, in English - study, in the Dahl dictionary for 1866 is listed as "a room for solitary writing classes; working". If you want to follow the "spirit" and not the "letter" of the cabinet, you should pay attention to what it has been for the past 70 years. Apart from the apartments of responsible workers and professors (they and their inhabitants are terribly far from the people), its functions were: a) a dining table littered with books, b) a desk filled with books, c) shelves of books and bookcases. The word "books" here is the main thing. In the modern library, in addition to bookshelves, there may also be a carpet, a fireplace, paintings and a laptop - according to your desire. The style of the classics is not limited. There are no models for imitation, although it is worth looking at the offices of the Nobel laureates. Fashion is a temporary phenomenon, books are eternal, so the study library, unlike just the study, has all the prerequisites for survival. The audience - fans of the book "Monday begins on Saturday," who prefer to work at home.Andrei Karpenko about the study library "The office is not the case when you can fill the space with something especially decorative. The office is primarily a library, a table for work, a chair or sofa for a cozy atmosphere. Pictures. In the home office the word" home "is a priority The style depends on what associations the notion of “cabinet" gives the owner. In this case, the customer, a very educated person, preferred modernity. We designed the furniture ourselves. Bookcases centrally located on the perimeter of the room of a complex octagonal shape The desk took its place. The color solution is calm and restrained. "Sigmund Freud's office in his last house in London, where he moved after the capture of Vienna by the Nazis and lived until his death in 1939. The environment is the simplest: a table with a collection of antique and ancient Egyptian figurines (Freud used archeology as a metaphor for psychoanalysis), books and the famous "analytical couch" brought from Vienna. Patients rested on it, while Freud himself, sitting in a green chair, listened to their "free associations."And Lord Byron's portrait English style - the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of the cabinet. No wonder, this is the most cherished thing that we had before the revolution, and the most honorable thing that we have now. In other words, an explosive mixture of comme il faut and classics. With such piety, the British cabinets are still perhaps the Americans. It is possible that for similar reasons. Much is known about the English office, but even more - myths (by the way, one does not cancel the other). We found the most detailed description in Wolfe's "Bonfires of Ambition": a fake fireplace with a copper grate, walls in carved mahogany panels, furniture, sheraton-chippendale, carpets, armchairs with fringe, further on a list that everyone has known for a long time. By the way, the same Wolfe explained the reason why British offices look this way: “If you are at the top in business, you shouldn’t have an ordinary business office that gives a person the look of a changeable part of an enormous mechanism. No, , like the house of an aristocrat, as though he would say for himself: “It’s me, I am the head, the creator and lord of the whole huge organization” (quoted by: Tom Wolfe. Bonfires of ambition. Amphora). Whatever goals you may have It makes sense to get acquainted with the originals on Downing Street.Elena Artemyeva Natalia Levkovskaya on the territory of a strong man "Any man wants to have his own territory in the house, to which everyone else would not have access would be closed. To make it clear that this is a strong man's territory. I think the classic for this purpose is the most suitable and worthy style."The office of Neville Chamberlain, at that time British Foreign Secretary (later, in 1937-1940, the British Prime Minister, who became famous primarily for the Munich Agreement and the policy of appeasing the fascist powers) The office is located in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth in Whitehall, Westminster. Its design is made in the classic style of Sir George Gilbert Scott.The so-called "Prince's Chamber". It is used more as a dressing room than as an office, because here the king (or queen) wears a robe in front of the entrance to the House of Lords. The middle section of the wall is occupied by 28 portraits of the Tudors, under them - 12 bronze bas-reliefs with a plot subject. Some believe that this impracticality will be punished with time: fiction cabinets will go out of fashion just like noble post-perestroika meetings. And in vain: it is fashionable not to work at home now, and not to work most pleasantly in the office.Omer Berber, architect of the project Selva Hotel, about the atmosphere of the office "The office is a place for rest and work, one of the best in the house. It seems to me important to create a dynamic environment here due to strong contrasts: between warm and cold, black and white. But the most important thing in the office is, in my opinion, an intellectual atmosphere built not so much on decorative elements as on a good selection of paintings, sculptures and books. "Mikhail Dautov about the offices in which they do not work “As soon as additional space appears in a house or apartment, the first thing they do is an office, and only then another bedroom and everything else. The office is perceived as a status symbol. This is a kind of manifesto that you say,“ I can imagine allow " , put the sofa. "The office-library in the castle of the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst Hearst Castle (America's Castle) in California. The castle is known for its enormous size (165 rooms, 127 acres of gardens, terraces, pools and paths) and the construction of it took 28 years (1919-1947). The library is like a house - there are 4,000 book titles and the rarest collection of ancient antiquities.