Mikhail Gubakin on the secrets of creating a status interior
Passing the gallery
Interview prepared: Julia Sakharova
A photo: Igor Lyaluk, Gleb Anfilov
Magazine: Decor N9 (164) 2011
Designer Mikhail Gubakin, the head of "MMSALON Interior Turnkey", told our magazine about the secrets of creating a status interior
Mikhail Gubakin: “Our interiors - apartments, boutiques, offices and other objects (some of them were published in the SALON-interior magazine) - could hardly have taken place, and in such a short time, if it were not for its own joinery production in the Moscow region. It was in BOTTEGA ITALIANA that our cabinet makers created unique joinery items for a specific project, specific style - ar-deko, Provence, modern eclecticism and so on. (More on this later, but now I note that in BOTTEGA ITALIANA you can do everything that the imagination of an architect or customer can do - to combine wood with leather or with Korian®, veneer any exotic breeds; cover with patina, gold, wax or gloss varnish - the options are endless.)
For example, the interior designed by Marina Braginskaya and Atelier Interior are eclectic, in which objects of various styles are mixed. In particular, in the open space of the living-dining room was supposed to put a wardrobe in the style of Provence. Moreover, a cabinet of very small depth was needed, only 20 centimeters (since there is a door next to it that opens inwards). This can not be bought. We made it to order - it turned out to be a functional and beautiful thing. This is a very important “trifle”, since in this case the comfort of the interior as a whole depends on it.
Or, for example, an L-shaped partition of frosted glass in solid oak binding in the interior of the bedroom in our Vadim Vyaltsev the project. This unusual shape was set by the layout: right - the entrance to the bathroom, on the left - to the dressing room. A bedroom in a soft classic style, so the materials were chosen suitable - frosted glass and stained oak. However, in our projects we also met more spectacular variants of partitions, for example, a 2.5 x 3 meter construction that separates the bedroom and, when necessary, retracts into the wall. The material from which it is made is a maple root with an interesting “curled” texture, resembling something like Karelian birch. In the same tree we finished the bearing column in open space - and we got a spectacular architectural detail, zoning the space and declaring the status of the owners.
By the way, about the status. This is a very important feature of the interior. Sometimes very strange (for the ordinary look) things can tell about his status. So, in an apartment with a column of maple root - a small kitchen. This was done intentionally by us: on the last floor of the house there is a fashionable hotel complex, and it was assumed that the owner would order food there. Similarly, the interior, made by hand to order: they do not shout about themselves, but are clear and undoubted signs of status.