Coming out: the apartment of designers Lena Solovyova and Ilya Klimov

The new apartment of Lena Solovieva and Ilya Klimov, the founders of Art Bureau 1/1, is located in a model house of Moscow Art Nouveau. Having started the interior design, the designers decided to take the difficult path of restoring the historical decor and layout, but beat them in a new way

Living room. Chandelier 2109, designed by Gino Sarfatti, Astep. Photopanno Look At the works of Anatoly Zhuravlev, 2008. Chest of drawers 7IT8, Italy, 1960s, Repeat Story. Armchairs, Pierre Jeanneret, 1953, Mirra Gallery Moscow. Round coffee table and chair, Sollos. Art objects: sculpture No. 2 by Ivan Belyaev from the series "New Dissolution", 2021; vase No. 25 by Masha Kolosovskaya from the series "108", 2019; object No. 2 by Alyona Mukhina, all — Art Human Design Gallery. Co-vert, Lila Valadan, Interior Showroom Krassky.

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Ilya Klimov and Lena Solovyova are the owners of the apartment, the founders of the Art Bureau 1/1 design studio.

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Alexey Dunaev

The walls are off-white, milky-white lamps, a light whiff of boiling white linen on the curtains, whitewashed parquet. This is how Lena Solovyova and Ilya Klimov's new apartment looks "white-white" — designers whose projects we used to recognize by bold experiments with color. "And that's us too!  Lena smiles. — Precisely because at work we are dealing with a complex color palette, separate for each of the projects, at home we need a reboot. Our interior is a kind of white sheet, a clean volume with good proportions and without unnecessary details, where the eye focuses only on our favorite art objects. We have a lot of artist friends, and we are constantly adding to the collection. For example, one of the latest acquisitions is a sculpture by Andrey Krasulin. As for the selection of furniture for ourselves, we treat it quite easily, we often change it, try to find a new dialogue between the objects and rearrange them."

A fragment of the cabinet. The vase is the work of Alyona Mukhina, Art Human Design Gallery. Table, JNL. Chair, Sollos. Pencil stand, "Art Bureau 1/1". Etching by Natalia Zarovna.

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"We work a lot with color, so at home our interior is like a white sheet, a kind of way to reboot"

Hall. Embryo armchair, designed by Mark Newson, Cappellini, 1988, Mirra Gallery Moscow. Zigzag Table, Holland, 1960s, Repeat Story. Bronze sculpture "Monument" by Andrey Krasulin, 2010. William Broy's painting Unified Fields, 1970s. Etching "III" by Elena Solovyova, 2020.

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The apartment with an area of 135 square meters is located in the quiet center of Moscow. The house, an example of Moscow Art Nouveau, was built by architect Vladimir Vlastov in 1901. "We love old houses very much, the volume and height of the ceilings are important to us," says Ilya. — There is also an amazing preservation of the historical front doors and stairs, which is rare for Moscow. At the same time, there are practically no restored and preserved apartments, so we set our goal to restore everything that remains. Even the historical layout has been preserved — by the way, not the most ideal. There are several elongated rooms for which we have been thinking up a purpose for a long time. But in the end, the only thing that was changed was that the former storerooms were adapted for additional bathrooms and laundry rooms."

Kitchen, Schiffini Cucine. Chandelier, vintage, Italy. Zigzag Table, Holland, 1960s, Repeat Story. Andrey Krasulin's sculpture "Monument", 2010. William Broy's painting Unified Fields, 1970s.

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"There are things that you don't want to enhance with unnecessary decoration at all"

View from the kitchen.

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"At the time of our appearance, the apartment had a typical renovation," Lena continues. — Porcelain stoneware on the floor, electrical boxes. The former owners replaced some of the windows with plastic ones. In general, everything looked quite decent, but we chose a difficult path of restoration. And it was very important for us to go through this samurai path from beginning to end. So, the preserved stucco in the kitchen was "washed", and the lost fragments were replenished with details according to our sketches. The parquet was made according to drawings from the time the house was built. And the tiles in the hall were replaced with a self-leveling terrazzo floor, it seemed to us that this was the most suitable option for this story."

Bedroom. Floor lamp, Stilnovo, 1960, Mirra Gallery Moscow. Chest of Drawers, 1960s, Holland, Repeat Story. Table lamp and chair, Sollos. Bed linen, Marki home. Armchair H269, Jindrich Halabala, 1930, Mirra Gallery Moscow. Vase, Driade. Coffee table, Zanotta.

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Hallway. The old doors were carefully restored, and in place of the lost floor, they decided to make a terrazzo coating.

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The architects managed to restore almost all the doors and windows. The missing ones were found in old houses and also put in order. "In search of antique doors, handles and cremons, I became a regular Avito, now the main thing is to stop," Ilya laughs. "In general, this apartment did not require any additional decorative solutions, since its architecture itself has a natural play of light and shadow," says Lena. — It is created, for example, by unique arches in the hall. Their thickness and imperfection of shape give the space a unique charm. Such things do not want to strengthen them with unnecessary decoration. It's enough just to paint it in a warm white color."

Lena Solovyova and Ilya Klimov, Art Bureau 1/1, www.oneoverone.ru , @_oneoveroneThe bathroom is located on the site of the former pantry.

The arched shape of the mirror was born in response to the historical arches in the hall. Sconce, Bocci. Sink, Boffi. The Atrio New mixer from Grohe.

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