The apartment is located in St. Petersburg, in the house of pre-revolutionary construction. The configuration of the living rooms seemed unsuccessful to the architects, and they made the main decision, which ultimately influenced the concept of the project - to combine the hallway, living room, kitchen and dining room into a multifunctional room, and combine the bedroom with the office. So formed guest and private zones. However, the separation of this, as the authors note, is very conditional. “Having started spatial integration and abandoning corridors and interior partitions, we tried to preserve as much useful space as possible,” says one of the project’s authors. she Tsebruk. - Guest area is really universal in terms of planning. The bathroom we have designed as a separate volume. Thus, it turned out the passage from the hallway into the kitchen and further into the living-dining room. ” This parallelepiped is a key detail of the interior space-planning solution. As a matter of fact, the whole spatial intrigue twists around this multifunctional zoning volume. The entrance to it is located on the side of the hallway, that is, it is actually hidden. At the same time, the walls of the bathroom do not fit close to the ceiling, but abut against a glass insert-transom, which at night can be used as a lamp. Black and white gamma allows you to emphasize the shape of objects, the texture of vertical and horizontal planes, the direction of the lines. Thanks to a restrained palette, attention is concentrated on a high light ceiling decorated with real stucco, a graphically clear line of spotlights, the line between dark wood and clear glass.

The authors used in the decoration of the apartment a variety of materials. Partitions are built of plaster blocks, the floor is decorated with solid oak. In addition, floor and wall tiles made of porcelain stoneware, mosaic, plain glass and mirror glass, hand-made TOMITA wallpaper made of traditional Japanese paper are used. The drama of the inner space is supported by the use of bright colored objects. They resemble artistic strokes that are on the canvas that adorns the living room. It is not by chance that in the title of the design work - “The Museum of One Picture” - there is a mention of a painting. After all, the main functional task of the museum space is to reveal and emphasize the advantages of the exhibits. In the “Museum of One Picture,” the interior recedes into the background, freeing the proscenium for the main character - the person.

she Tsebruk: “I associate the interior with a small precious casket - a gift to wonderful people for whom we created it. However, this space, if we continue the analogy, is not a container of knick-knacks. Most architectural and design solutions were aimed at ensuring the functionality and utility of square meters. ”