Красивые квартиры №83 4 Contents Walking circle-wise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20 One of the main owner’s wishes was to merge some of the rooms. The studio space includes a living-room, a kitchen and a small dining-room. The additional design problem was to use round lines and shapes. This solution allowed a little smoothing of the apartment’s lay-out with its big prominent angle, making the planning more centered and visually completed, providing a real roundabout. All the levels of elegance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26 This modern interior’s elegant lines are added with stunning Oriental and African motives, private decorative collections and avant-garde pictures. Ethnic notes are also complemented with the combination of dark wood, fur and leather. Various lighting schemes of this two-level apartment allow highlighting the beauty of the construction lines and shapes. In the circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36 It is really hard to find just one right angle in this 100 sq. m three-room Moscow apartment: the smooth sophisticated lines and plastic organic forms prevail here, softly flowing one into another. Due to that fact the living space has turned out very interesting, difficult and multidimensional. Creation this interior, the author of the project was inspired by wildlife images where there are no straight geometrical lines. There’s no an orthogonal coordinates system in the apartment, so the room space is being constantly changed in different perspectives, and it seems bigger than it actually is. Exquisite idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An idea to use the rounded inter-room partitions in that interior is belonged to the apartment owners. In the apartment’s design the laconic modern style prevails. Simple forms of the furniture allowed focusing the attention on colour combinations and highlighting the beauty of textures. The plastic space is based both on smooth wall lines and wide niches; they are partly used as racks. This apartment’s furnishing features a special attention to comfort. Oval as a character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52 During this interior’s designing the main problem appeared to be the need for a considerable number of rooms in a lowspace apartment. At the same time the designer would like to personalize every room, to make it looking different from each other. The successful solution was contributed by the «game» with sculpturesque forms, the use of pendant and tension ceilings, floor levels, additional shelves and lightened niches. The small space is constructed around an oval livingroom being the apartment centre. Featured club design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 A complete dismantling of old inter-room partitions together with a change of the main design idea allowed to make a dynamical club design in the apartment, having used a set of distinctive materials for that: tile of the sated shades, dark wood, metal and black glass. The original ideas allowed rejecting some traditional furnishing elements. Living in waterfall sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68 The round living room became the centre of the apartment’s lay-out, and all the lines in that interior are anyhow connected with its walls’ shapes. This design solution does not look excessively simple: the use of natural materials and classical ideas softens its «sharpness». A home waterfall influences also very calming. The light color scale of the furnishing materials is added by the intensive orange colour, and smooth glossy surfaces neighbour to the rough ones. The approach to that apartment’s design is absolutely modern, though initially the authors tried not to follow any certain style. Meditative ethnics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74 Actress Oksana Stashenko, starring in such popular TV-series as «Mukhtar returns», «Place in the sun», «Love’s not what it seems», and others, is a sociable and very «sunny» person. That’s why her apartment is a real present oasis of harmony where Indian motives reign, with their rich colours, quiet mantra sounds and relaxing aromas. Dreams in fusion style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82 Mark Tishman is a graduate of both the Moscow State University’s Faculty of foreign languages and the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS)’s Faculty of the musical theatre, a 7th season of «Star academy»’s participant, a singer, an actor, a TV presenter, says that he’s fond of travelling and he doesn’t aim to get a house of his own in the nearest future. But that does not mean at all that he is at the same time indifferent to interior around. He has his own point of view, and he shares it with «Beautiful apartments». Moments of life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90 Ekaterina Fedorchenko’s childhood dreams were to become either a singer or a set dresser in theatre and film production. But after graduating the Institute of foreign languages Ekaterina surprisingly found herself addicted to the interior design, and she started with a home of her own. Later on, her new activity brought her to the launch of her own design bureau — a cozy workshop in the centre of Moscow with twenty five employees, ready to bring to life any of her most sophisticated projects. Antiquarian horoscope. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98 The world of antique furniture today consists of the timeless and beautiful styles such as Roman, Gothic, Renaissance, unknown to many before. Sometimes you may not even get at once, what you would admire. Vladimir Tchikin, the expert of the antiquarian gallery «Heritage of centuries» considers that from the psychological point of view furniture styles are similar to horoscopes: either it yours or it’s absolutely not. In a modern style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106 The author of the project had a task to design a modern interior including the ethnic elements for the creation of luxurious and noble atmosphere. The customers had a perfect idea what elements their future house’s interiors should feature. Cozy weightlessness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108 The main owners’ wish was to create a light and cozy interior, not overloaded with details. In order to bring to life this «cozy weightlessness», the designer applied his favorite methods: the common colour scale uses light tones; stained-glass windows create atmosphere of the open space; roundish forms prevail in the planning. Flower of the winds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 In this apartment every room was formed basing on its functional intents, the owners’ wishes and the designer’s mood. The living room’s main accent appeared to be two sophisticatedly shaped niches with a bright flower painting on their back walls. They can be easily seen both from a hall and from a kitchen. For the owner’s main hobby — home plants’ cultivation — the special two-level podium with an additional lighting is constructed, it was successfully mounted in one of the room’s corners. Logical design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 A designer meets the merging of two apartments often enough. In the given object the wall separating the apartments was not bearing, and that fact allowed getting rid of the blocking lay-out, making a spacious kitchen-and-dining room, placing the corridors in the right place. Reserved glamour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 The basic space consists of a hall with a niche painted with lines, a living-room featuring the wall as its central element, with a black-and-white ornament in the silvered frame, and a kitchen separated from a lunch zone by a bar rack. With a total area of 89 sq. m and the ceilings of 2.6 m high, the space needed to be visually increased. So that’s the way a number of smooth surfaces on ceilings and walls came, and one of them is added with a stunning waterfall. Lariche noche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 The quality of a living space depends on its smart planning, but not on its sizes. The author of the project managed to transform a symbiosis of architecture and decor of the sixroom apartment for a young couple with two small children into a cozy home with perfect harmony, perfectly following a modern lifestyle. Smart functionality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 The project of 86 sq. m apartment is designed for a young couple with a child. The owner’s main wish is a creation of a spacious living room, a study and a small room for the daughter, for every family’s member has his personal space. As a result, the designer offered a lay-out meeting all the listed requirements. There was a place for the study, for the nursery, and also for a bar zone and a wardrobe. Thus the nursery is not as small as it may seem, — it occupies 13 sq. m. Graceful simplicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120 The designers met an uneasy problem — a standard Moscow apartment should get an appeal, a personality and a functionality, and feature maximum of open space. The floor space is as much. Art deco elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .122 This apartment is located in the central part of Moscow. In the mid-eighties of the last century a building was reconstructed — and all the wooden floor structures were replaced with the iron concrete ones. The customers — modern and creative people — wished to get a classical styled interior. But the classics should be not grandiose, but refined. The owner had haunted London, therefore he asked to bring some elements of an English pub into the interior. English charm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124 The style concept of a 110 sq. m apartment was based on the customer’s wishes — the refined classics with the English style’s elements. The merged spaces of a kitchen, a dining room and a hall became this interior’s distinctive feature. Farewell to wardrobe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132 The wardrobe room as functional and ergonomic space. Healing shower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144 Everyday enjoyment in a tropical shower is now possible due to modern originally designed shower heads. 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