Take off!

bowling "Airplane" in Pskov Nikolay Gavrilov

Passing the gallery

Text: Margarita Shitz

A photo: Nikolay Gavrilov

Architect: Nikolay Gavrilov

Painter: Pavel Kuzin, Ilya Semin, Natalia Serysheva, Daria Proskuryakova

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The head of the "Restoration" cooperative at the Pskov Museum, Nikolai Gavrilov, says of himself that he is a master and hereditary master. The Samolet bowling, occupying the entire fourth floor (600 sq. M.) In the building of the former engineering plant on Oktyabrsky Avenue, is his last work in the field of interior design. (After the painting of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in the capital.) Bowling guests are greeted by an aircraft of the future: a time machine with an instrument panel and the wings of authentic planes. The name of the details of the curious can be read on a special plate. On one of the walls is a picturesque panel with a passenger liner taking off, and a model of the first Russian fighter of 1913, full-size, hovers over the game lanes. Aviation leitmotif is present even in common areas. Batteries around the perimeter of the windows hid behind steel panels with cross cuts in the form of airplanes - and this finding also does not look deliberate, but very elegant. The contrast of cold green-blue and warm orange-red tones (walls and furniture) and the cast-iron stormy sky (ceiling) increase a sense of danger. The disturbing play of colors is complemented by fragments of aircraft structures, which are used in all the “shock” moments of design. This brings the interior from the surface of everyday life to a cosmic, timeless level.

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