The Bureau Bakharev and Partners began work on this project in the format of a single-level apartment. When the concept was practically agreed, the family of the owners expanded, and they acquired a second apartment of exactly the same configuration on the floor above. Due to the increase in the total area, it became possible to organize the space more creatively, paying particular attention to the decor. The laconic stylistic decision of the interior is not least due to the urban environment. Located on one of the upper floors of the new building in the “Moscow-City” district, the apartment lets in the city as it were. To create this feeling, the architects planned the lower level of the apartment with the smallest number of partitions. As a result, they managed to maintain a sense of spaciousness and “air” and organize a single space in which the functional zones smoothly transform into each other.

Stylistically, this apartment can be attributed to the best examples of minimalism, adapted to the lives of real people. Such a solution implies first of all a verified planning “backbone” of the dwelling and simplicity of forms, which, in turn, are complemented by interesting textures and non-trivial decorative accents that breathe life into the sleek interior. So, with the seeming simplicity of expressive means in the apartment décor materials are used that are very rich in both visual and tactile terms (in the decoration there are natural stone, wood, leather, glass and steel).

At the same time, the potential of each of the materials is revealed fully, due to the fact that they in turn “solo” in various zones of the interior. Maroon-red sleeves of onyx with contrasting veins attract attention in the hall of the first floor, ideally combining with monochromatic eben-tree boasers. Glass demonstrates itself in different qualities: as the main material for the stairs, it looks powerful and a little brutal, but it seems completely different - light and romantic - as a chandelier material, as if woven from "soap bubbles" that hung in the span between the floors. In the living-dining room space, leather comes to the fore: armchairs of blue, accent color for this zone, white leather sofas and chairs, and silver-colored leather panels on the wall between the living room and the office soften the rigid functionalism of steel and glass structures. Intense shade of blue - an independent color theme, passing through the entire interior of the first floor. The color varies only slightly in intensity: the end wall of the dining room, painted aquamarine, serves as the axis of symmetry and closes the composition of the dining group with a table of soft blue Brazilian granite. The floor in the dining room, living room and office is made of wenge; at the same time, all partitions solved in light colors look more “furniture” than constructive on this dark background. Thanks to such a design move, it is possible to create the illusion of a single continuous space of the entire first level of an apartment.

On the second floor there are private rooms, including the bedrooms of the owners and children, bathrooms and dressing rooms. Here the authors of the project moved away from the aesthetics of pure minimalism and decided to turn to techniques that are more suitable for rooms where coziness and comfort play the main role. “Collected” gives the interior a palette of contiguous shades - from dark beige to truffle gray. Along with the wooden panels, stretch fabric as well as furniture of characteristic forms are used in the decoration. All this together refers us to aesthetics. ar-deko. But such a move does not contradict the internal logic of the interior of the apartment, because ar-deko - This style actually laid the foundation for the emergence of modern minimalism.

Maria Bahareva: “In the house in which this apartment is located, there is a successful constructive basis, and there was little that disturbed us at the planning stage, unless the carrier column located directly opposite the entrance door. We decided to “hide” it in the structure of the dressing room, which is perceived outside as a luminous glass cube. This creates the illusion of the absence of walls and the indivisibility of space. ”

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