Victoria fusion

English style country house Vladimir Yurkov

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Text: Maria Kriger

A photo: Sergey Morgunov, Ekaterina Morgunov

Stylist: Alexey Onishchenko

Project author: Vladimir Yurkov

Magazine: Click (right)

The English mansion from the time of Queen Victoria became the prototype for the interior of this spacious country house: strict panels and dark wood pylons, tall French windows with curtains, cozy furniture ... Residents of Albion like no one else know anything about elegant luxury One of the main difficulties of this project was the very impressive size of the mansion (more than 1000 sq. M.). Such a serious scale, which would seem to give a carte blanche for the implementation of any ideas, requires a very thoughtful approach: it is necessary to incorrectly calculate the ratio of volumes and proportions - and the house will at best resemble a respectable hotel. Realizing this very well, the architects paid special attention to the functional distribution and zoning of the premises. The core of the house - the living room of the first floor - is solved as a single open space: the fireplace room, the dining room and the home theater are separated only visually: arches with pylons and a carved balustrade mark the boundaries of each of the zones. The main decorative motif of the interior is a combination of aged wood (walnut, maple and poplar root) and milky white Venetian plaster. The dark tree animates the house, bringing warmth and tranquility to it, while light walls give the interior lightness and a major mood. Thanks to verified proportions and meticulously selected shades, wooden inclusions visually reduce and segment a vast room, while leaving it bright and transparent. On the second floor, in the private part of the house, there is a wooden staircase, borrowed from the novels of Dickens and Golsworthy. The rays of the sun, refracted by stained glass windows, turn this staircase into a real work of art. The spacious master bedroom continues the theme of the front part of the first floor, but the tree here goes into the background, yielding the championship right to the light Venetian. The third, attic, floor of the mansion is made in a lighter genre: the strict Victorian classics are transformed into a peculiar country-style. The attic, as it should be according to its status, is conducive to quiet rest and relaxation: having escaped from the daily rush and inescapable worries, you can watch a favorite movie, sit at a computer or just wrapped in a checkered rug, listen to rain drumming on the roof.Vladimir Yurkov: "The style we chose for this house can be described as a classic fusion: we transcribed the interior of a-la Queen Victoria in our own way, retaining its basic idea and giving it a more relevant, modern sound."

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