квартира общей площадью 161 м2 в Москве Marina Zainetdinov, Oleg Zhuravlev

Passing the gallery

A photo: Mikhail Stepanov

Text: Olga Korotkova

Architect: Oleg Zhuravlev

Workshop Leader: Alexander Demin, Lyubov Orlova

Project Manager: Marina Zainetdinov

Painter: Andrei Khodakov, Leonid Epple

Magazine: N10 (66) 2002

Pink with green is considered to be a risky color combination. Ladies' costume, “built” on such an oxymoron, can afford only the famous fashion designers or desperate tailors. In nature, however, the pink-green gamma refers to the magic thing - everything associated with grapes and grapevine. In this interior, "the love of grapes and wine" played a crucial role The wine cabinet became the main (and, one can say, the only) capital item of the interior solution. Made in Italy to order, the complex "organism" (cold rooms, compartments that take into account different temperature conditions for red and white, sparkling and aged, table and dessert, light and fortified wines, etc.) is clothed in expensive wooden facades, topped with a solemn pediment illuminated and placed in a niche in the wall specially planned for it. This important gentleman determined everything else in the house. The wine theme is supported by another circumstance - the sentimental predilections of the family for Paris. Paris life in a Moscow house responds in an interesting way - it is the white wall of a European house written in the living room with a window and ajar shutters. Which, it seems, you can really shut up: under the painted window - this street balcony, without embarrassment solo in the interior. The elegant balcony, naturally, entails other Europeanisms: columns, glamorous sofas FENDI, forged curls on the backs of the bed, boldly bourgeois legs of the dining table, a heavy patinated cupboard, salon carpets. In the white and blue bathroom, the cast-iron stand under the sink draws attention: it resembles a cabinet from an old sewing machine. The color scheme was not chosen by chance: it is also subject to a theme that the authors and customers jokingly called "the love of viticulture and winemaking": muted, grayish green, tobacco, mustard, the color of corals and rosé wine - natural colors associated with either wine or grapevine. Some risk was to place a modern canvas in the bedroom above the bed - painting in blue and gold. This is perhaps the only discrepancy with the chosen style and the only clear reminder of modernity. The layout of the apartment in the new house (from the window to the opposite wall - 16 meters) limited the possibilities of architects and contributed to the fact that the kitchen inevitably threatened to remain without natural light. This annoyance had to adequately "bypass" and enter the kitchen area in the living room space so that this neighborhood looked logical and thoughtful. The kitchen table is like a bar counter, and it demarcates adjacent rooms, and serves as a stylistic neutrality between the differently decorated parts of the apartment’s ceremonial zone. Hedonism, epicurean frivolity and inescapable carnival irony accompanying the 21st century are the main premises of the authors in this interior. Being expressed for the most part in the "grape" theme, they most clearly find themselves in the design of the guest bathroom: leaves and fruits - "Dutch" painting, Moscow ...Marina Zainetdinov: “The fate of this funny, funny interior is very indicative. At first, the family acquired a high-tech apartment. Now they wished Parisian - frivolous, courtly. It was formed around the wine cabinet. In the literal and figurative sense. for the same people. So different! Now it seems to be possible. "