restaurant "The Sixth Corner" (St. Petersburg) Gala Filatova, Vlad Isaev, Frol Frolov The extravagant interior of the restaurant "The Sixth Corner", decorated in the spirit of the 70s

Passing the gallery

A photo: George Shablovsky

Text: Olga Gvozdeva

Project author: Vlad Isaev, Gala Filatova, Frol Frolov

Magazine: N6 (51) 2001

Modern interior design is synthetic art. As a diligent student, he takes lessons from elders: from decoration and even from scenography. Working on the project of the restaurant "The Sixth Corner" (St. Petersburg, Razezzhaya St., 3), the authors acted primarily as theater artists. Moreover, it was precisely this profession that they spent a lot of time before seriously getting carried away with interior design. The very name of the restaurant, located in one of the iconic places of the city, popularly called the "Five Corners", set the informal tone for the interior, determined a new starting point. Here everything is mixed up: firstly, the longing for the 70th, which, to one degree or another, is inherent in every member of the active generation, because someone has had a youth for these years, someone has a childhood. Secondly, the good memories of communal apartments and cozy courtyards, covered over the years with a thin pink haze. The dining room of the restaurant is divided into many "mise en scenes", each table for visitors is not just furniture, but a whole story. A person who is not deprived of a sense of humor is given the freedom to choose: “apartment of a railwayman”, “bathhouse”, “room of a rocker”, “family nest” or “salon of an easy-going lady”. If you want to dine in the "fresh air", there is a "table of dominoes", "boat" and even a "roof", from which height it is especially pleasant to contemplate the surroundings. For the most romantic natures, a truly paradise is provided: a table on the terrace overlooking the picturesque street. Most of the items used in the interior are authentic, having lived a long, difficult and often truly communal life. A lot of gizmos were brought from Armenia, all wooden parts (spinning wheels, platbands, etc.) - from villages of the Nizhny Novgorod province. So, with the world on a thread, and the new restaurant on the "Five Corners" - an extravagant interior.