Movies, wine and rock and roll, and all this - in a studio apartment!

The first wish of the customers for the future interior sounded like this: "We definitely need a wine refrigerator." At that moment, designer Anna Korol recalls, the project acquired its own features and name

Kitchen. Refrigerator, Smeg. Interior doors are manufactured at the Doors Brothers manufactory.

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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich

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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich

GENERAL PARAMETERS

Property type: apartment-new building

Where is located: Saint Petersburg, residential complex "Botany"

Square footage: 56 m2

Style: Color expression

The main idea of the project: to create a bright, dynamic interior for an active married couple

Color scheme: terracotta, deep blue, green, red and yellow

Author of the project: designer Anyuta Korol, T. +7 (921) 302-81-81, www.anylopa.ru

Kitchen, fragment. In the kitchen, it was decided to abandon the bulky upper cabinets in favor of open shelves.

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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich

"The first wish of the customers for the future interior sounded like this: "We definitely need a wine cooler." Here I realized that we would definitely work together," says the designer. — In addition, they needed a huge TV — to watch good movies, a built—in multimedia system — to listen to good music and a bookcase built into the entire wall - to read good books. For me, this project instantly acquired its features and its name: "Cinema, wine and rock and Roll"."

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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich

My clients — an adult married couple — permanently reside in another city beyond the Arctic Circle, and this place for them now is a weekend apartment, a kind of refuge where you can relax from the harsh gray northern weekdays, relax and enjoy life during a long weekend or vacation. Here they plan to meet their old age in the future without boredom.

Kitchen-living room. Kitchen, "Dryad". Suspensions, Superliving. Laminate flooring, Alloc Original.

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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich

In the corner of the room there was a place for an antique chest of drawers of the XIX century.

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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich

The apartment is one-room, only 56 sq.m., and I had a difficult task to organize an isolated bedroom with a work area, a separate dressing room, an island in the kitchen, a folding sofa for guests in the living room area, and in a small bathroom, in addition to a washing machine and dryer, a separate bathroom on legs and a shower area were needed. To be honest, it was not easy to organize all this in such a small space. I had to break down the walls.

We started working on the project a few months before we received the keys to the apartment. The plans of the customers were very ambitious, but on 56 square meters, six of which are occupied by a loggia, I could not accommodate everything I wanted. More precisely, the clients insisted not to touch the partitions, and I understood that we could not do without combining the loggia with the kitchen and increasing the bathroom. To prove this to them, I had to go to a trick — I came to the developer as a potential client to see a similar apartment at the construction stage, shoot a video and convince clients of my rightness.

Antique chest of drawers, England, late XIX century, Vintage_anylopa. The painting "The Posing model", by Vladimir Khakho, "Abramova Gallery".

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Kitchen-living room, fragment. Buffet, Soviet vintage of the 1950s, bought at Avito.

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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich

The kitchen is divided into two zones. The living room area is made in English style — a green leather sofa "Chester" is made to order in the company Sofas & Decor, and an English mahogany chest of drawers of the late XIX century I bought for clients at an auction in England.

Living room area. The sofa is made to order, Sofas & Decor. Painting "Earth and Sky", artist Alexander Volkov, "Abramova Gallery". The table was found in the interior salon "Objects".

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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich

The dominant of the kitchen is an island, the countertop of which is made of wood (walnut), as well as accent items: a red Smeg refrigerator and a Soviet buffet from the 1950s, bought at Avito. The buffet was restored, repainted yellow and artificially aged.

The Soviet buffet of the 1950s, bought at Avito, acquired its canary-yellow color during the restoration process.

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The dominant feature of the bedroom is a massive chandelier with turquoise glass pendants. This color connects the blue shelving and green oak shutters. The customers have a large collection of books, and during the work on the project we called the "Lenin Library" among ourselves.

Bedroom. Bed linen, Lissoy, France.

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Bedroom, fragment.

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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich

"Harmony of color, light and textures is the main idea of this interior"

Bedroom, fragment. Vintage lamp, Sweden, 1960s, Vintage_anylopa. Electro Blues painting, artist Alexander Volkov, "Abramova Gallery".

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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich

Bedroom, fragment. Cast-iron battery in retro style Reading 350, Retrostyle.

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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich

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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich

One of the wishes of the customers was decorative plaster on the walls. Initially, I didn't really approve of this idea, but still we found the right texture and color. The whole interior is built on a combination of juicy shades. Harmony of color, light and textures is the main idea of this interior. As a result, the space turned out to be dynamic, very active, but at the same time cozy and enveloping.

Bedroom, fragment. A huge TV — the dream of the owners of the house — found its place in the bedroom, as well as a wardrobe-library. The table was bought in the interior salon "Objects". Carpet, Carpets.roo.

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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich

The interior of the hallway is absolutely my idea, which was accepted by the customers "with a bang". Together with them we discussed and worked out the space of the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, but they had absolutely no wishes about the hallway. And then I had the idea to design an entrance hall with a reference to the interiors of ancient railway stations — considering that customers come to this apartment from another city, it turned out to be quite appropriate.

There are five doors in the hallway, and almost all of them are different, but, nevertheless, they do not argue with each other. The antique mirror of the Art Nouveau era came into the family by inheritance from the customer's grandmother.

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The wardrobe with a mezzanine and a small oak bench are made according to my sketches — they imitate an old Orient Express car, and the red doors to the dressing room with a glass cover remind us of station doors and partitions. In general, here, in the interior of the hallway, there are many references to Art Nouveau, inspired by the luxurious interiors of railway stations of the late XIX - early XX century.

Hallway, fragment. Furniture, Lucente Desine. Entrance doors, "Volkhovets". Graphics, artist Tundo Pagmalupitans, ArtMaley Gallery.

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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich

"The hallway is a special area, it connects all the rooms into a single concept and unites them"

Hallway, fragment.

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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich

Customers are positive—minded people with a great sense of humor and tremendous patience, who are able to listen and hear. It was a pleasure to work. We argued a lot, discussed, but came to an understanding and the right decision. The whole project we were on the same wavelength and the result of this teamwork makes me very happy.

Bathroom, fragment. Artisan Moss Green wall tile, Equipe. Interior doors, Doors Brothers. Provence print, artist Alexey Lantsev, "Abramova Gallery".

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Ivan Sorokin. Style: Anna Krutolevich

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