Sofas, which do not care where "live", so much their influence on space

Passing the gallery

Text: Vasily Lifanov

A photo: Dmitry Revnivtsev

Magazine: N6 (40) 2000

In the beginning was the Word - the word of the Customer. It took a sofa: a) separating from the room fireplace and television area; b) beating the already constructed podium; c) hiding drawers and d) at a distance of 1.74 meters from the TV screen and 2.30 meters from the fireplace. The architect Sergey Erofeev and the decorator Oleg Fedorov wanted to make an object, which in principle doesn’t care where it is to "live", so much its influence on space will be. And indeed: the single line of the silhouette “is broadcast” from the sofa to the walls and ceiling, going and returning and following it, our eyes constantly “float” around the sofa, “plunging” into it and “emerging”, BURNING ... like a big animal, good-naturedly offering everyone to sit on its flexible back. What, according to the author, is also a landmark. The sofa in the kitchen is the "sister" of the sofa in the living room. On "her" tight forms five people easily fit, and they sit at a table in a row, without ranks and hierarchies. They like it so much that nobody wants to move to individual chairs. Therefore, the chairs in the kitchen nema!