
Two bedroom apartment of 70 square meters. m is located in a building built in 1929. Customers - connoisseurs of constructivism, were looking for an apartment in such a house in the Krasnaya Presnya district. They wanted to get a concise, bright, but not fresh interior. Tells the author, designer Irina Krasheninnikova.
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“Customers are a family of three: thirty-year-old parents and a three-year-old baby. Dad practiced rugby for many years, now he is keen on squash. Mom is busy promoting children's reading, participates in a book club. Positive, hospitable, friendly people.

The hostess loves to cook, so the kitchen required a spacious, separate from the reception area. Customers asked to pay special attention to the bathroom, they specifically searched for an apartment with a window in the bathroom. Since the family has a large library, it took a lot of space to store books and with a good margin for their growth.

The advantage of this apartment were windows on two sides and the presence of a French balcony in the bathroom. The disadvantage is the lack of storage space and “air”: despite the large windows, the apartment gave the impression of being low and stuffy. I wanted to develop a project that meets the lifestyle of this family - just as open. During the redevelopment did not change the boundaries of the bathroom and kitchen, but designed wardrobe rooms and connected the kitchen and living room with a spacious hall.











The style in which it is made, I call the "Russian-Scandinavian." I love the Scandinavian style for its restraint, environmental friendliness, optimism, convenience. It is relevant because it is a large-scale modern lifestyle and architecture in which the majority of the population of our country lives. But "my" Scandinavian style is always very Russian. I never create completely white or dark gray interiors, as they do in Sweden or Denmark. It looks great in them, but we have a different mentality and a different color of air in Russia. This project is an example of the adaptation of the Scandinavian style for the Russian conditions.

Color The interior is complex, emotional. Neutral colors of large surfaces (walls, floor, ceiling) are complemented with accents of rich natural colors: plum, turquoise, grass green, honey yellow, cobalt blue, purple, tangerine - everything in this set forms a rich mix of colors and emotions.

I rarely use such a number of additional and accent colors in the interior. However, the key to the success of this project were works of art that became not only bright accents, but also the basis for the development of its palette. The basis of the collection of paintings consisted of works by artists of two Moscow galleries: 11.12 and Osnova.



Я использовала предметы скандинавских марок (Louis Poulsen, &tradition, BoConcept) в сочетании с испанскими, а также вещи российских дизайнерских брендов (Archpole, «Дом культа», Doodywoodydom). Дорогие соседствуют с демократичными. Заказчики – люди интеллектуального европейского склада, их больше интересовали смыслы, а не бренды. Так, хозяйка квартиры очень хотела видеть в своем интерьере светильник Artichoke Поула Хеннингсена. Чтобы уложиться в заявленный бюджет, мы решили использовать недорогие систему хранения для книг и кухню, но выделить средства на Artichoke.



Under the Artichoke lamp, I found textiles from the Finnish factory Valilla in a pop art style called “Artichokes and pomegranates”. From it we sewed curtains for the bathroom. And then she brought from Bodrum a sculpture “Pomegranate” by Turkish ceramics artist Tevfik Tyuren Karagozoglu, which perfectly matches the color of the selected ceramic tile. It turned out that it was not by chance that pomegranate was the favorite fruit of the owner of this interior. I called the project “Pomegranate Color”. True, in our case it is turquoise. ”
