Optics salon in the Kiev shopping center "Mandarin-Plaza" Elena Dobrovolskaya

Passing the gallery

Text: Julia Shaginurova

A photo: Alexey Reydalov

Architect: Elena Dobrovolskaya

Magazine: H (76) 2003

Star troopers, silver Cadillacs, treacherous blondes hiding their eyes behind glasses in narrow frames, and, of course, Bond - James Bond ... Mandarin-Plaza "(Basseynaya St., 4). Elena Dobrovolskaya, the author of the seventy-meter futuristic capsule, explains her “sixties” simply: “Organic forms are a wide field for self-expression, they are ergonomic and functional. Besides, for glasses and frames that are associated with transparent materials, reflections and reflections, it’s hard to come up with a better background, than the streamlined and immediate design of the sixties. " The cabin space is functionally divided into two parts - the service area, in which the workshop, the staff room and the doctor-ophthalmologist's office are located, and the show-room where glasses and frames are exposed. A relatively small area of ​​the trade zone is played up with the help of mirrors, hidden lights, glass and metal parts, which, reflecting each other, significantly “move apart” the space and create the effect of transparency. Lens-like lenses refract light and infinitely replicate reflections ... So on a silver-gray background in the light of glass flasks this futuristic-nostalgic show is played, in which the decor in the style of space-pop naturally combines with a rough concrete texture and images of stylized advertising handsome men with briolinovy ​​coca.