Alexey Vyazminov: “Private architecture is 90% of the architect’s communication with the customer. Everything depends on it. If you can look at a future object - a house or apartment - through the client’s eyes, stand up to his point of view, understand it, then he will understand you and be able to look at some things with your eyes, and then the interior will work. When such an understanding is found, then (if you pick up an analogy) the electrical circuit closes and the light comes on. That is, it’s important for me to understand that the customer likes what he likes, what are the circumstances of his well in situ. I will not talk about the game of volumes in the interior of the colors, of styles, because all this in itself has no value. Any reception and any style acquire meaning only if the focus is on the identity of the customer.

For example, an apartment made by us in the style of minimalism. The starting point was the fact that the customer lived in Europe (this is the first), and that he is the owner of a solid collection of Russian avant-garde, painting of the 20s of XX century (this is the second).

And we had the image of a modern, European-style apartment with designer furniture, light and painting of the 20s of the twentieth century. Moreover, we decided to make the surface of the walls white, as in an art gallery, so that the reflexes from the walls do not distort the color of the paintings. The bathroom is a cube trimmed with black marble. It is located in the open space of the living-dining room. And we wanted to create a sense of movement, the illusion that the cube slides. At the first level of perception, superficial, it’s just beautiful, at the second level, deeper, more subtle things are comprehended, for example, an associative connection is built with Malevich’s Black Square.

But also a monochrome apartment, but already classic and completely different. The customer asked to make the interior a la franςaise. We questioned him and found out that France is only one of the landmarks, and in general he likes the Mediterranean, the style of southern Europe. So Italy came to our project: marble floor, frescoes on the walls, furniture SAVIO FIRMINO, OAK, CHELINIMurano glass lamps BANCI FIRENZE. And so it turned out Italian-French in the mood of the interior. A custom-made kitchen stands in the recreation zone, and this is already very Russian: we usually have a kitchen in sight, because it is the pride of the owners. We Russians are generally proud of our home.love it and love to be at home. Why? This is partly a matter of our cold climate, and if we consider the issue comprehensively, this is a topic for a thesis. "