apartment in St. Petersburg with a total area of ​​280 m2 Vladimir Chuvashev senior

Passing the gallery

A photo: Evgeny Luchin

Text: Olga Gvozdeva

Stylist: Tatyana Bakanova, Yulia Korzhova

Project author: Vladimir Anatolyevich Chuvashev, Vladimir Vladimirovich Chuvashev

Painting, graphics: Ivan Govorkov, Elena Gubanova, Mikhail Shemyakin

Encaustic: Evgeny Stepantsev

Magazine: N (98) 2005

Architect Vladimir Chuvashev designed the interior, built on two primary colors - red and black. It is curious that he really chose the famous novel by Stendhal as a visual image. The comparison seems appropriate: in the interior as well as in the book, the life of the protagonist is described, the role of which is played by the customer (young man, student). Only the place of action is not the fictional city of Verrier, but the real St. Petersburg It must be admitted that the architect, having resorted to the literary image, did not dissemble. He endowed his project with all the features of a literary work, including language, plot and structure. Reading the interior carefully directed. At first glance, the apartment shows its openness. The entire guest area is looped out: from the hall you can go into the living room, and from there through the dining room and kitchen again get into the hall, making a circle. The private zone, on the contrary, is closed to outsiders. Two bedrooms, a study and a bathroom - the sovereign territory of the owner. However, the premises in both zones correspond to the stated color theme. The only exception was the guest bedroom. They made it black and white, in case the red-and-black “dish” seems too spicy to the guest. Yet the main emphasis in the interior falls on the guest area. Having attached a glazed loggia to the living rooms, they obtained a geometrically correct balanced space. The central part of the living room is occupied by a large L-shaped sofa, the wall opposite it is painted in graphite color. There is a complex lighting system. Light pours from everywhere: from niches, the slopes of which are trimmed with silver metal; from under the wooden eaves, bordering the room around the perimeter. And yet the most stylish (and at the same time cozy) light comes from the famous Arco floor lamp, the immortal creation of the Castiglioni brothers. And it becomes obvious that in fact the interior of the living room is almost monochromatic, more precisely, its color is close to sepia. "Where is the red here?" - you ask. Well, firstly, there are a lot of it in the dining room (the chairs around the dining table are covered in scarlet leather). And secondly, something else is important: it turns out that the interior can only accept black or red objects as additions. Add a yellow flower here, and there will be no trace of harmony. The whole interior scenario is built on this fragile color balance. But the roles in it are described in such detail that there simply was no room left for improvisation.Vladimir Chuvashev: "I wanted to make a modern apartment in a bright, memorable way. It has two dominant colors - red and black, which are slightly diluted with white metal."