"Adam's rib": apartment in a house of the beginning of the XX century 95 m2
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12 Dec 2022
Designer Anna Korol created a harmonious interior for her mother and her daughter in an apartment house of the Art Nouveau era. Once it was half of an old St. Petersburg apartment, now it is a modern space with vintage furniture and orginal design solutions. We give the floor to the author of the project
Kitchen-living room. Dining table, vintage, Denmark, 1960's. Chairs, vintage, Denmark, 1950's. Pendant lamp, vintage, Vereinigte Werkstätten, 1960. Floor lamp, vintage, Sweden, 1960's. Tea set from the family collection.
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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich
GENERAL PARAMETERS
Property type: apartment in the old foundation
Where is located: St. Petersburg, the apartment house of merchant Polezhaev (architect Yakovlev I.I. 1913-1915)
Square footage: 97 m2
Style: Eclectic
The main idea of the project is to create a harmonious interior for three women of different generations, each of whom has its own taste and style
Color scheme: the main color is light gray (the color of the sky of St. Petersburg) with bright accents: swamp green, lingonberry red, muted blue, purple, rich turquoise
Author of the project: designer Anna Korol, T. +7 (921) 302-81-81, www.anylopa.ru
Kitchen-living room, fragment. Dining table, vintage, Denmark, 1960s. Chairs, vintage, Denmark 1950s. Pendant lamp, Vereinigte Werkstätten, 1960. Tea set from the family collection.
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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich
The author of the project is Anna Korol, founder and owner of the Vintage_anylopa service for the search and selection of vintage furniture and light at European auctions.
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Ivan Sorokin
The apartment before the revolution had an area of 180 square meters. In Soviet times, it was divided into two and completely rebuilt according to the standards of that time, so there are practically no historical decorative elements left in it. I completely dismantled all the partitions, removed the old Soviet decoration, but kept the pre-revolutionary decorative pilasters in the kitchen, which was once part of the main hall. And also preserved and restored the historic entrance doors.
Initially, the good parameters of the apartment — the right contours, high ceilings and large windows facing a beautiful wide street — allowed me to design the space along the axes. I divided the apartment into private and public areas, organized a large kitchen-living room, three separate bedrooms, a large bathroom with a bathtub and shower, a separate utility room and built-in storage systems.
Kitchen-living room, fragment.
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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich
The interior has a lot of vintage furniture and light. Basically, these are items of Scandinavian designers that I have been buying at European auctions for two years. This collection is my pride, and I am glad that I managed to find harmony between vintage and modern items. The art in the interior — most of the paintings, decorative items, vintage tableware — comes from a family collection.
Kitchen-living room, fragment. A female portrait by an unknown author was bought at a flea market in St. Petersburg and suggested the color scheme of the entire interior. The marsh-green color was an accent in the kitchen, the main one in the bathroom and a complementary shade in the hallway.
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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich
The common area is divided into three parts: working, dining, living room. There are deliberately no upper cabinets in the kitchen, so as not to overload the space. The illumination of the work surface also has a decorative function: the glare from the lamps falls on the dark green wall, creating a beautiful decorative light.
On the sides of the module of two columns with a built—in refrigerator, oven and microwave there are showcases, one of which, on the kitchen side, is designed to accommodate dishes, and the other, on the living area side, is a bookcase.
The accent in the living room is a red sofa, above which is the painting "Nudist" by Anna Korol.
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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich
Kitchen-living room, fragment. Armchair, vintage, Sweden, 1930s. Cabinet, vintage, "Tatra", Czech Republic, 1960. Painting "Parrot" by Lucy Voronova, Abramova Gallery. Candle holder, vintage from the family collection.
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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich
I designed this apartment for my family: my mother and an adult 18-year-old daughter, a future doctor. And it wasn't easy. Each of them put forward their peremptory demands. It was not easy to create harmony in the interior when one client is over 80 and the other is 18.
The grandmother's room turned out to be in the "grandmother's style", but in a modern interpretation.
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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich
Mom and daughter independently determined the accent color of their bedrooms, besides, I had my own color preferences. As a result, the apartment turned out to be bright and diverse in color and style. Mom's room is such a "grandmother's style" in a modern interpretation.
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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich
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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich
In my daughter's bedroom, I deliberately walked away from symmetry, I can say I broke the pattern. The room of a young lady, in my opinion, should be with a hooligan accent, which is why my author's collage appeared on the wall — a portrait of Benedict Cumberbatch with the eye of Michelangelo's David. Above the desk, framed notes from 1888.
Daughter's room with a photo collage created by the author of the project.
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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich
Daughter's room. There are old sheet music in frames above the desk. On the right is a vintage mahogany secretary.
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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich
Daughter's room.
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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich
My bedroom has a rather elongated shape, it is a corner room with four windows. I used color to zone the space. In the part of the room where the bed is located, I painted the walls and ceiling in a dark emerald color. The window frame, window sill and Roman velvet curtain have the same color. It turned out to be a kind of alcove with a private area. This technique allowed the elongated room to be visually shortened. To the right of the bed, a closet hides behind a secret door.
Anna Korol's room, bedroom area.
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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich
An orange vintage armchair from the 1970s turned out to be in my bedroom by accident. I bought it at a European auction for my clients, but we decided not to take it on that project, and the chair remained to live in my apartment. Initially, I didn't even want to use it in the shooting, but the decorator Anna Krutolevich found a decent company for him — a picture and a vintage floor lamp with fringe, and even my slippers with fur turned out to be very useful. It so happened that a random thing became the main character of the interior.
Anna Korol's room, fragment.
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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich
The bathroom has a spacious shower room with a bench for the convenience of an elderly person, and a bathtub. I wanted to show that this is, first of all, a room, and not just a bathroom — cozy, with decorative items and its own atmosphere — and, in my opinion, I succeeded.
Bathroom. The cabinet under the sink and the table next to it in the bathroom are vintage.
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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich
Bathroom, fragment.
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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich
