Seasons on krestovsky

apartment with a total area of ​​140 m2 on Krestovsky Island (St. Petersburg) Andrey Shmonkin, Olga Gorovaya

Passing the gallery

A photo: Evgeny Luchin

Interview prepared: Nadezhda Nadimova

Stylists: Tatyana Bakanova, Yulia Korzhova

Project author: Andrey Shmonkin, Olga Gorovaya

Designer: Dmitry Fedorov

Magazine: N4 (104) 2006

Urban housing, existing in a non-urban, natural environment, is the specificity of this St. Petersburg apartment, located in a house on Krestovsky Island. The author of the project tells about the conceived image and its embodiment. Andrey Shmonkin

This is a very bright apartment. All its numerous windows are turned to the old Krestovsky park, which, of course, could not but affect the appearance of the space we have designed. This park is variable. Each season of the year transforms it in its own way, and we wanted this diversity of colors to resonate in the apartment interiors ... The theme of the autumn park (and the first time we hit the object in the fall) was expressed in the living room design, where the ceiling and walls are lined with cherry panels golden-red, "autumn" color. Thanks to a multi-layered varnish with the addition of liquid gold, the color of the tree has acquired a special shimmer and depth. It turned out a certain spatial metaphor of the autumn crown, more precisely, a set of intertwined trunks and branches. The selection of the texture also played on the given image: on the wall panels the fibers run vertically (like tree trunks), and on the ceiling they constantly change direction (like cron branches) on the ceiling because of the chess stacking and laying.

The front dining room is spatially connected with the living room - these two rooms form a single public area. But visually, they rather contrast with each other. Unlike the living room, the interior of the minimalist in spirit dining room with its light walls, glass planes of shelves and table tops, with the greenness of home plants looks light, transparent, creating a spring mood. Only blotches of golden cherry in the dining room furniture (its bent, subtle forms resemble tree branches) echo the style of the "autumn" living room.

The interior of the master bedroom is monochrome in winter. White lacquered furniture, light-colored floors and walls, silver-gray carpets ... Here we wanted to neutralize all the bright colors and accents that could distract from the beautiful scenery outside the windows or challenge its primacy. The master bathroom adjacent to the bedroom is lined with white marble with thin veins resembling the graphics of fragile leafless trees in a winter landscape. So the motive of the park manifests itself everywhere. But it does not exist as a decoration, but as a kind of romantic image, perhaps barely readable inside quite functional interiors. "

Andrey Shmonkin: "We wanted the surrounding park to become part of this apartment, so that the border between the external and internal, interior and exterior, man and nature was as less accentuated as possible. It was not an easy task. It required a parallel solution of purely figurative and complex technical, functional problems. "

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