Apartment in a historic house, 120 m2
The task of the designer was to preserve the atmosphere of the old Moscow apartment.
INTERIOR4 APRIL 2019TATYANA FILIPPOVA
Maroseyka is one of the few Moscow streets, where not only the old buildings are preserved, but also the old Moscow colors and even life. The lanes are all curved and crooked, the houses are low. And no new buildings.
Customers who bought an apartment in the house of 1905 dreamed of keeping the atmosphere of old Moscow in it, but did not turn it into a museum, so the designers of Aiya Design Studio sustained the basis of the interior in the classics - doors with large panels, massive cornices, floorboard. And added to the old modern furnishings - chairs, tables, dressers.
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Fragment of the living room.
The planning decision divides the apartment into two zones: common, with a kitchen, living room and office, and private, where the bedroom and children's rooms are located. Each of the bedrooms has its own dressing room.
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Armchair, Valentini; floor lamp, Thomas O'Brien; coffee table, Capitol Collection; glass partition, Loffi; the rack was made in “Samkov's Workshop”.
The living room is designed for quiet family evenings - customers spend a lot of time at home, and the designers have tried to provide all evening scenarios. In the chair you can get comfortable with a book on the couch - to watch TV.
The kitchen, where all the households also often gather, unfortunately, remained small, it was impossible to increase it, but all the ways to “move apart” the space were visually used. “Since there is only one window in the room, we decided to unload the space and stop using the upper cabinets,” says Aiya Design studio head, designer Aya Lisova. - In the niche we placed the shelves against the background of an aged mirror, which was extended along the entire wall. It reflects light and gives the room depth. ”
The old brickwork in the kitchen and in the office, connected to the living room by a hinged glass partition, due to which these two rooms are perceived as a single whole, is native. But the arched ceiling, the main decoration of the kitchen, is a modern imitation. As the author of the project explains, due to the laying of communications, the original ceiling could not be preserved, but its constructive and appearance was carefully restored.
The fireplace in the study is decorative, although in a brick niche it looks so natural, as if it was always there. But the collection of tubes on the mantelpiece is not an element of decor, as someone might have thought. Designers made a smoke exhaust system in the office, so that the customer could smoke a pipe or two in the evening without disturbing the home. So the atmosphere of this apartment is made up not only of the old brick walls, but also of the faint smell of cherry tobacco.