apartment (168 m2) in St. Petersburg Maxim Rymar, Natalia Markova
Passing the galleryA photo: Dmitry Livshits
Text: Olga Gvozdeva
Stylists: Tatyana Bakanova, Yulia Korzhova
Project author: Maxim Rymar, Наталья Маркова
Magazine: N6 (106) 2006
Customers insisted that the interior should not be cold colors. We chose the color of the cherry as the main tone and selected the rest of the palette based on it. Since the cherry has an active, pronounced texture and eventually becomes even brighter, a light beige color and a bit of wenge were added to it as "companions". Moreover, the color range was unevenly distributed in the interior. For example, a hall in which there are no natural sources of light was made white, in the living room the color thickened and reached its maximum saturation in the study.
The interior style is modern, but the definition of “fashionable” does not fit it. The concept of fashion suggests "now, only this season." Here is a balanced symbiosis of modernity and laconic classic replicas, which is ideally suited to the character and status of the owners. Calm, confidence, desire for eternal values - this is a figurative series, which is implemented here by means of design. "The main task was the search for proportions - says
One wall in the living room, adjacent to the office, is painted red-brown, the glossy front panel of the bar counter has the same shade. “The walls in the office are also red-brown in color, but lighter than a half tone. This is how a visual connection is formed between rooms of different styles,” comments Maxim. The owner's office looks very respectable. Designer furniture and panels made of Karelian birch are rather restrained in design, but the material itself refers to the heritage of the imperial past. The hostess also has its own corner - a boudoir in the bedroom. “The children of the owners have already grown up and live separately,” the architect explains. “And we deliberately sought to create" selfish "apartments for two people."