Unity and struggle

duplex penthouse

Passing the gallery

A photo: Mikhail Stepanov

Text: Julia Sakharova

Project author: Irina Dymova

Architect: Anton Atlas

Magazine: Decor N8 (174) 2012

Decorator Irina Dymova got an interesting space - a two-story penthouse with a sloping roof. On this basis, she created a harmonious interior, which, if you look closely, is made up of very heterogeneous components.

The owners of this apartment, creative and advanced people, invited the decorator to work on the interior. Irina Dymova. It was decided to make a loft: the open space of a two-story penthouse with a roof of a broken-line configuration already defined certain stylistic parameters. From deliberate fabrication and brutality they left, deciding the loft in an elegant manner that brings to mind the avant-garde Russian artists. In the dramaturgy of space one cannot exclude the influence of the early Malevich with his ideas of struggle, overcoming. What is only the dynamics of the broken structures of the second floor, reinforced by bright scarlet rectangles of doors. However, it is balanced by concise lines of the first floor and a neutral gray shade of plaster. Plaster color of concrete is not only a tribute to the theme of the loft, but also an excellent background for works of art, and there are plenty of them. The purity of the lines is also emphasized by the complete absence of the ceiling moldings, the minimalism characteristic of the style.

However, the substantive content of the interior is by no means minimalist: the interior is even quirky in places and everywhere detailed. Here and wall painting in the style of trompe l'oeil - trompe l'oeil, and antique fireplace, and wall consoles in the form of figurines of the Moors, and ancient engravings, and paintings, and graphics, and much more. Most of the furniture belongs to the “pen” of modern design masters, including Holly Hunt (two sofas in the living room) and Родольфо Gonders (bed in the master bedroom). Hunt sofas in velvet upholstery - “Parisian” shade of gray (the color of the stone of ancient Parisian streets), they are created in the style of discreet luxury. Beds authorship Gonders - flax colors. But at the bedside in the bedroom of her daughter a strikingly striking design: the minimalist style headboard is covered with bright scarlet fabric. Color of a headboard successfully emphasizes a motley east cover. This vibrant combination of shades - calm gray and active red - is used in the decoration of the window on the first floor: it is decorated with two pairs of curtains at once - gray and lingonberry. They can be used individually or together - by mood. “Customers thought in the interior in the spirit of dialectics: in their thoughts, he had to calm and excite,” says Irina Dymova. “To summarize, then serve as a background for creativity, and this is a non-linear process.” Equally nonlinearly built interior. The stage settings in the best traditions of the French and Belgian schools of interior design — whitewashed wood, wrought-iron chandelier, accessories from deliberately modest glass — are combined in one interior with pieces of furniture in Ferrari, ironic wall paintings, items from the owners’s collection and a large number of books and art albums ...

The result is a lively, creative interior, where a carelessly thrown thing or a book forgotten on the table will be another artistic fact. Everything is thought out.

Project author Irina Dymova: “Customers are people open to experimentation, collectors and book lovers. "The human factor" had a decisive influence on the interior "

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