Right steering!

квартира (170 м2) в Санкт-Петербурге Andrey Kabanov, Radik Yunusov

Passing the gallery

A photo: Zinon Rasudinov

Text: Olga Gvozdeva

Stylists: Tatyana Bakanova, Yulia Korzhova

Project author: Andrey Kabanov, Radik Yunusov

Magazine: N4 (104) 2006

The style of this apartment was influenced by the view from the window. The proximity of the Neva and the river port is a sufficient reason to play the ship theme in the interior.

Architects admit that before the start of work on the interior of the apartment in the list of hobbies of the owner there were no ships or yachts. But, being a man of excitement, he readily accepted the rules of the game and recently even bought a real steering wheel - now the bay window with a view of the Neva resembles a captain’s bridge. However, the authors of the project refrained from directly quoting the ship's topic and preferred to restrict themselves to an associative “subtext”.

The inner space was formed by the merger of standard apartments in the new house - two-and three-bedroom. Significant changes have touched the central room, which combines the living room and kitchen-dining room. A large role in changing the geometry of the interior was played by two three-dimensional structures: a fireplace was built into one, and a part of kitchen cabinets and household appliances into the other. A rectangular niche specially built for them separates the public zone from the corridor. On the side of the living room, a streamlined, extended upward wooden column with an ellipsoid base, on which shelves are “strung”, adjoins its side wall. The wooden facade of the fireplace also has rounded edges and is slightly turned towards the dining room. In the same plane with it are three columns, behind which is located a small library. A glass stove covered with small craquelures is reinforced above the fireplace hearth.

On the one hand, a home cinema adjoins the living room, a separate room is allocated for it. The entrance to it is decorated in the form of a giant window that hides behind sliding doors.

The colors of the interior are dominated by natural colors, which is determined by the choice of finishing materials. Their list is limited - it is oak, stone, plaster, imitating sandstone, and a little metal, which is fully consistent with a given thematic program. But despite the stinginess of the techniques used by the architects, they managed to create a self-contained interior, made in the marina genre.

Andrey Kabanov: "The image of the interior was born spontaneously, as soon as we first arrived at the facility, became acquainted with the layout and appreciated the view from the windows. to work".

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