"Men's" apartment with the author's ceramics and stained glass in Moscow
The apartment of 74 m2 in the residential complex “Garden Quarters” was conceived as additional housing: the owner lives in the Moscow region, and comes to the city to spend time with friends or, on the contrary, to be alone.
INTERIOR27 MARCH 2019
Ekaterina Kolegova, art director of the Ecole design bureau, undertook this project. The main wish of the customer was to create an unusual space that could surprise him. And in order for Catherine's design idea to develop in the right direction, he suggested thinking in images — for example, being inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni’s films.
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The apartment has large windows, and on beautiful days it is flooded with sunlight. To keep this feeling throughout the apartment, some partitions between rooms were made translucent. This happened, for example, in the bedroom - this room was zoned with a glass partition created according to a sketch by Ekaterina Kolegova. It is a stained glass window with inlays of aged mirrors. In support of her behind the headboard, four stained glass windows were made, through which natural light enters the corridor.
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The entire interior is filled with details created by the designer’s sketches. For example, in the living room, the whole wall is lined with decorative plaster, resembling rusty metal. In contrast with such a “rough” and rough surface, a perfectly smooth kitchen apron, lined from Arch-Skin large-format ceramics, stands.
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The bathroom interior is inspired by the interiors of the Siena Cathedral: Ekaterina Kolegova has developed a unique decorative socket that goes from the floor to the walls. Each segment of this panel symbolizes a specific city in Italy. All components of the mosaic are made of miniature elements of smalt-ceramics, assembled by hand and embedded into Arch-Skin ceramic plates. The Made in the World company is responsible for the art panel and large-format ceramics used on the kitchen apron and in the bathroom - they helped to bring the designer's ideas to life. In the guest bathroom, the walls are lined with dark oak panels, on which giant scarab beetles “perched”. They were created by the ceramist Ksenia Pirvits according to the sketches of Ekaterina Kolegova.
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The situation worked to the smallest detail. The full living room design is balanced by the minimalism of the gray kitchen. By the way, the dining area is another design by Catherine: it is as if molten tin was poured into a crack on a wooden tabletop. At the request of the owner, the table was placed at the same height as the working area. Cabinet furniture as if dissolved in space due to the facades of dark oak.
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The main honeycomb accent of the living room was the No Honey carpet by design by Jürgen Dalmanns: the ocher-colored canvas with giant wasp images became the starting design element of the room. Catherine decided to move the color scheme of the ornament to the entire interior palette: the shades of the carpet were also “quoted” in accessories and textiles.