apartment of the architect Sergey Rogulev in the center of St. Petersburg Sergey Rogulev

Passing the gallery

A photo: Peter Lebedev

Material prepared: Dmitry Kopylov

Project author: Сергей Рогулев

Magazine: N10 (55) 2001

Psychologists say that things say a lot more about people than words. A prosaic "matter" will accurately inform literally a person everything: gender, age, social status, character and preferences. Even a person who is far from psychology just has to look at the interior of Sergei Rogulev, a famous Petersburg architect, to understand: he is a talented, intelligent, accomplished master. Not a snob, just a confident man, perfectly aware of what he wants from life. - The apartment was quite small and was a "crow suburban" sample of 1996. Its undoubted advantages were high four-meter ceilings and an extremely convenient location - the center of St. Petersburg. To tell you the truth, I was not going to live in it all the time, I just, like any lonely person, wanted to have my own territory, where I myself define the laws of being. I brought it in order between times. I did not have a clear and clearly written project - everything worked out somehow by itself, impromptu. At some stage, I suddenly realized that the best thing for me was the white or black interior. Thanks to the high ceilings, we managed to build something like a mezzanine library, and above the toilet we built a second floor and made a guest nest there. I myself like it very much: my cherished childhood dream came true - to sleep on the mezzanine. I "fraudulently," at the expense of the columns, visually increased the height: this idea came too suddenly, and my guests create a persistent illusion that the apartment was once a two-story building. Surprisingly, in this apartment everything was easy for me, any solution was embodied in the form in which I conceived, I had no problems with anything. As a result, built what he wanted - a stylish bachelor "den". The apartment and the whole situation, frankly, are not cheap, but I really did not make an apartment, as they say, for show - I just really love expensive things. And on the mantelpiece, I keep what I can say sacredly - portraits of relatives, family relics, among which there is even a bust of Houdon work ... Modesty and a bit ascetic, "monastic" archaic of the second floor library in some surprising way in harmony with the harsh stylish black and white "techno" that reigns below. The big round clock in the black wall of a low cabinet attracts attention, but does not absorb it. The meaning of the apartment is “transparent”: it was created by man for himself, here every detail is not accidental, justified and organic to the whole. The most elegant element of Sergei Rogulev's “lair” looks like a fireplace, where "... well, with a friend, sit and drink simple Scotch whiskey together ..."