Movie theater at home

penthouse home cinema on Nevsky Prospect

Passing the gallery

A photo: Peter Lebedev

Stylist: Tatyana Bakanova

Text: Yana Ivanchenko, Dmitry Dmitrokopulo

Project author: Dmitry Sharapov, Alexander Tuchkov

Installation: Vadim Kanevskiy

Magazine: Technological N10 (110) 2006

He protects the world, rescues beauties and rests in his loft on the top floor of the house, in a spacious room with windows to the whole wall. Who is he - a real movie hero or a simple movie buff? He is not the other, but when you are eighteen, life must look like a shot from a stylish film on a home theater screen

Alexander Tuchkov: The overall feeling of this interior is youthful romanticism. After all, our client is 18 years old. So, the large hall of the home cinema has become a real center of his house, where everything should correspond to the youth and club culture.

Dmitry Sharapov: The apartment is located on the last floor of a new elite house on Nevsky Prospect, in a fairly quiet part of it. Immediately from the entrance opens onto a large room with a home cinema. It is made partly according to the principle of public space, because the young man living here is going to spend a lot of time with his friends. The ceilings in the room are almost four meters high (by the way, this allowed us to make an additional level in the bedroom). But in a room with a home theater, the high ceiling and windows created a rather difficult acoustic situation. Therefore, for soundproofing the ceiling had to use special plates of acoustic isover. On the floor tiled with large tiles, a carpet was cast, which, together with a vinyl-covered leather sofa, formed a chill-out zone. The wall with integrated kitchen absorbs sound quite well. But the windows, in order not to tremble at the sound, we closed the Roman curtains with automatic control. They not only hide the daylight, but also drown out the echo. The system of "smart home", which, in particular, controls the mechanism of curtains, also allows you to create several different lighting scenarios. Lighting-columns from ARTEMIDE change their color, creating an additional color accent. Above the glass table - the bar counter, made according to our author's project, the light of fluorescent lamps passes up and down through the mirror squares of the fixtures of the same company. ARTEMIDE. And on the ceiling on the tracks we placed professional spotlights from THEREFORE. They give a real studio light.

Alexander Tuchkov: In the interior, we focused partly on pop art. They took something from the romantic spirit of the spy Bondy - pay attention, for example, to the front door. They added a popular comic theme. We decided to cover even two grotesque baroque chairs and high bar stools with fabric with plots from comics. And, in the end, we offered to give a portrait likeness to the hero, as if taken from the pages of popular comics and captured in the interior of a home theater, with the owner of the house.

SALON: Why speakers were chosen FOLD? This is a rare Swiss acoustics. Do you like the sound of her tape tweeters?

Installer Vadim Kanevskiy: We can not say that the choice was only ours. Initially, the designers set a specific task - to achieve a stylistic unity with the interior, tall and slender acoustic systems were required, preferably in a light body. For these parameters, as well as for the sound quality, they fit perfectly. FOLD in aluminum narrow buildings with black grills and excellent speakers. Ribbon tweeters, of course, play a huge role - clear, clean, natural high frequencies. We have long been engaged in both Hi-Fi and audio testing, so the solution came immediately. Low-frequency speaker support is very worthy of a branded subwoofer.

S: Penthouse is a complex room in terms of sound. Was acoustic correction applied here?

- Yes, a simulation was carried out, and then a rather serious acoustic calculation of the room - this brought good results.

S: Judging by the lamps on the ceiling, there is a lighting control system. The curtains are automatic, but translucent, is the image flare not appearing?

- The control of lighting and curtains was done by another company. As for the illumination, the video projector SANYO The PLC-XF45 has tremendous brightness - with 10,000 ANSI lumens, it shows quite normally even in such conditions, and even the curtains help. In addition, we picked up a DRAPER projection screen with a special Panamax coating that provides optimal image quality even during exposure.

S: One gets the impression that the cinema here is not designed purposefully, but rather as a fashionable element of the interior. On the other hand, the choice of components is clearly nonrandom ...

- Not. Initially, the customer wanted a home theater with a large screen and a powerful projector in order to regularly watch movies and broadcasts of on-air television.

S: Ether? But what about the limited lamp life?

- The resource of the projection lamp in the cinema with this level of technology is not a problem.

Video Projector Sanyo PLC-XF45 Motorized projection screen Draper Targa 198x264Plasma TV Panasonic TH-37PA50 (at the penthouse), Sony KE-61MRX1 (bedroom)DVD player Yamaha DVD-S2500 TiAV receiver Yamaha DSP-Z9Front speakers fold P 5LTDBuilt-in speakers SpeakerCraft AIM 8 Four (bathroom), SpeakerCraft 8.1 (dressing room)Center channel speaker fold P 4CMKIIRear speakers fold P4XS MKIIActive subwoofer fold P S Projector mount SMS TS

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