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Project Authors:
Mikhail Soloviev-Petko, Olga Motina
Nomination, year, status:
Apartment Interior. Traditions,
2007,
Лауреат
Location:
St.-Petersburg
Total area:
150 m2
Architects:
Mikhail Soloviev-Petko, Olga Motina
Designing: MPStudio
Decor and Design: Authors' painting on the walls. Window blinds — Baumann. Decorative brickwork and stonework. Lampware, false open-work-framed windows. Old-looking doors. Hardwood flooring («smoked oak»). Custom forgeds. Painting (dyptich in the sitting-room, silcscreen and acrylic paints) by Mikhail Soloviev-Petko and Olga Motina
Photographs: taken by Mikhail Soloviev-Petko and Olga Motina and from the designers collection.
Furniture: Grange, Haecker, Paschen, Maggi Massimo, Morelato, Selva, Machalke & Machalke, Starck, Luna.
Antiques: Indonesia
Light: Luceplan, Marbel; sockets — Jung
Equipment: Sanitary Villeroy & Boch, Duravit, Starck, Jorger. Cast-iron fireplace front (Germany) and cast-iron batteries (Spain) — all powder-coated similar to the forgeds
Exclusive Elements: All the forgeds (lampware, columns, beams, barriers, flowerholders, decorative
elements, water heater, etc.) were made according to the authors' drawings
Designing Period: 3 months (2006)
Construction Period: 6 months (2006)
Additional information
The apartment block is on the edge between a housing estate and an old industial area, and this neighborhood gives strong association with a loft in Soho. This association has brought the authors to the idea to turn this apartment into an artist's habitation. Cast-iron fireplace front with a looking-glass in a silvered frame on it seem to be a real hearth. The most important details in this apartment interior are light and wall decoration. In the sitting-room, the kitchen and the study the walls are partially coloured grey to become a neutral shadow for the paintings. In other rooms, the authors used brighter colors. In the bedroom the walls are painted violed-grey, a more complicated colour, and a carved bedhead matches with window gratings playing the role of peculiar stained-glasses.
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