Moscow restaurant "Sumosan" Alexander Volkov

Passing the gallery

A photo: Evgeny Luchin

Text: Nadezhda Serebryakova

Project author: Alexander Volkov

Architect: Gerhard Frieder, Thomas Behir

Magazine: (37) 2000

Lovers of Eastern aesthetics, revealing the soul of nature, showing the world in all its vastness and variability, it makes sense to visit the restaurant "Sumosan" (Berezhkovskaya Embankment, 2). In its interior landscape architecture and landscape painting are thoughtfully combined. Which is quite logical, because in Oriental art they have long become different forms of expressing common ideas about the world. The design of the restaurant attracts the breadth of spatial solutions. The bridge, as if composed of elements of pavilions of oriental monasteries, is elegantly curved over an artificial pond and leads us from one hall to another. In the second hall, the boundaries of space are expanded by wall paintings. Her motifs are characteristic of the East, where mountains and waters have always been worshiped as shrines. Another pond is directly associated with painting. In fact, it also represents a landscape composition, only in a different, volumetric version. Three-tiered lamps on the ceiling resemble pagodas and are very skillfully included in the complex structure of the interior.