Красивые квартиры №70 2 Contents The Sun, stone and sand . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Solar sand-colored interior is penetrated with light emotions. In its basis there are warm natural colors and materials. The architect used various light scenarios: from easy pre-dawn mist to bright midday sunshine. Due to that fact the apartment’s owners enjoy the natural harmony sensation all year round. Tableau vivant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 This apartment’s style is impressionistic, as Matisse or Van Gogh’s pictures. It can be described as a bright and cheerful interior with smooth natural forms and picturesque color «stains» has. Such design, where colors symbolise happiness, calmness, pleasure and sunshine, influences nicely on apartment owners’ mood and health. Elegant luxury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Calmness and balance reign in that interior, penetrating each picturesque corner of the house. To achieve such a sensation, the interior’s author used an advantage of a pleasant natural palette and well-known styles: here you may find a little bit of classics, modernist style and unostentatious art deco elements. «The apartment reflects space construction and decoration principles, which could be often met in modern European interiors. Refined simplicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 This apartment, located in one of Moscow’s elite living complexes, belongs to a young girl who wished a light, cosy and hospitable home for herself. The design’s authors embodied all her wishes, having decorated that interior in a very up-to-date style. Modern minimalism’s clear lines, ageless classics’s smooth forms, warm light tones and non-standard decorative ideas are combined here according to an author’s plan. Black gloss with pearls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Light and spacious interior, reflecting owner’s personality, — it was a starting point for this object’s creation. Various junctions of grey, silvery, black, and also interesting and sated difficult blackberry color could be seen in all the interiors, except a nursery. The space is filled with internal harmony and cosiness by a combination of relief ceiling’s smooth bends and various use of spotlight illumination. Fusion styled interior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Creation of each design-project which perfectly meets the owner’s requirements, is always not easy process. However it is even more difficult to design an apartment for rent. In this case the interior should be comprehensible to customers with different tastes and habits, so, it must not have many expressive features. At the same time mass design can also push a potential customer away. In this case the fusion styled design leaves open space for creativity. Noblesse oblige. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 In the centre of Florence, in a building built at the end of XIII century and located very close to the wellknown cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore, there is an apartment where the interior recreates a decor of the Florentine homes in the period of transition from late Gothic to the Renaissance. The best cabinetmakers, artists, stained-glass windows and furniture craftsmen worked on it. The idea was to not just repeat the XIV–XV centuries interiors, but also to create a space, which would be comfortable for modern living. African safari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Elena Lenskaya, fashion designer, has a fine appreciation of color, texture, form; it is the reason of her success in fashion business. Besides that Elena is also a successful interior designer. Renovation, makeover, design and decoration works are not less creative and grasping for her. «Construction is tremendous pastime», she says. Sensations’ clearness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Designer Anna Pavlova, the head of ANIMA design studio, does not love grandiosity, modern sharp angles, multilayered ceilings and specially bent walls. Interiors from her are known for adherence to rational soft ecological minimalism. They allow you to fell comfort for reading, watching art house movies, talking about lofty matters. Compact vastitude. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 This apartment’s project is a perfect example of the small area’s smart planning. The planning is designed in order to use all the useful areas as much as possible, for people not to feel any discomfort of a small space. Modern comfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 The spacious apartment’s interior is designed for the hospitable owners, who often welcomes many friends and relatives. Natural materials are used all over interior. Authors of the project managed to create very homy, sincere and rather cosy elegant classical interior. Classics, art deco elements in combination to modern decoration materials make this apartment’s interior a unique one. Easy breath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 This apartment has easy breath, a real freedom lives here. Deep interior design smartness and meaningfulness can easily be felt here, behind its seeming simplicity. It was necessary to re-design an internal space. The architect used both his architectural ingenuity and design wit, which was capable to create a desirable ease of life. Minimalism for a single person . . . . . . . . 98 The apartment interior can be defined as minimalism. Contrast decorative inserts within the floor, ceiling lines, decorative wall in a living room —all that have accurately expressed geometrical forms. Neutral tones’ and natural materials’ (wood, marble, ceramic tiles) use in decoration forms representation about that style. Lament to classics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 For creation of light, thin and extraordinary graceful interior expensive, but not mannered materials were used. Authors managed to create the space filled with light; where even fine details serve the general idea. All in this apartment is smartly thought over to trifles. Sunny circles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 This apartment is designed for a family of four persons — a husband, a wife and two sons (a 14 y.o. boy and a baby). Because of the big age difference separate rooms are necessary to each child. So the architect designed two equivalent rooms for children, and devided the third one into a drawing room and a parents’ bedroom. The customer would like to have a place for all the family and visitors. Mixed motives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 This space’s planning idea is inspired by two apartments’ unification and its division into two zones — public and private ones. The public zone includes a hall, a kitchen, a dining-room, a living room and is designed in the French Provence style. The private zone is separated from a living room by a corridor and includes guest, children’s and sleeping zones. The bedroom concept is inspired by the Moroccan motives; all the furniture is a custom-made product of the African craftsmen. Floor secrets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 How should a floor look like in epoques of neobaroque, neomodernism and total interior Renaissance? Certainly, fine! Fine, graceful, sometimes even deliberately magnificent. Florid curls and bright gilding will never get along with boring laminate or fur-treedesigned parquet. Only shine and shimmer must be here — only shine, and no compromise! Mosaico bolognese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114 At the beginning of October, 2008 in Bologna the next International salon of ceramics and sanitary equipment — Cersaie — took place. The experts named Cersaie «a week of a high ceramic fashion» due to the huge exhibition space and authoritativeness in new terends creation. «Beautiful apartments» magazine represents top exhibition trends and highlights in this article. Task for adults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 A nursery is a place where a child, creating his own world, develops, forms his personality day by day. And the adults’ task is to make this world as cosy and useful as possible. 82 114 56 122 № (70)’2009 Содержание 2
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