restaurant "Shuvalov" in St. Petersburg Lyudmila Ivanova, Konstantin Pimenov

Passing the gallery

Text: Olga Gvozdeva

Leading headings: Nina Farizova

A photo: Yury Prygov, Svetlana Prygova

Project author: Konstantin Pimenov, Lyudmila Ivanova

Magazine: N5 (83) 2004

Petersburg restaurant "Shuvalov" was "doomed" to its name. It was here, in the house on the corner of Malaya Sadovaya and Italianskaya, that Count Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, the founder of the Academy of Arts and Moscow University, lived. The historical canvas, usually serving as a "dessert" when it comes to a new project, here is the "main course". The architects sought to preserve the spirit of antiquity, which was under the low arches, but not exaggerating, but only helping it to appear as a print on photo paper. Antique patinated brick is appropriately complemented by an oak baguette. As a sign of the present, glass is present in the interior - as if dissolving in space, it demonstrates the connection and plasticity of time, without interfering with their interpenetration.