The design of the apartment follows the legend of a Russian immigrant who moved to Paris in the early 20th century. A story was created that a young bohemian, a third-generation descendant of the Russian immigrant, lives in this apartment. His grandfather moved to Paris in the early 20th century and settled in an apartment in the Napoleon III and Baron Osman style, with high ceilings, moldings, a fireplace, and oak parquet flooring. He brought with him a portrait of Nicholas II, family icons, an antique mirror, a bookshelf, and a bed. The current tenant, although he has never been to Russia, tried to create his own perception of it through the prism of irony: he made chandeliers from wire and crystal, depicting ballerinas against the backdrop of Diaghilev's "Russian Seasons" in one of the rooms, and turned Lenin busts into tables.
Area: 80 sq.m.
In reality, the apartment is located in Moscow, and it is inhabited by designers with two school-aged sons.
Right from the entrance, we see tables with bases made from Lenin busts, resembling Christmas ornaments. They were found in a workshop, restored, covered with chrome, colored lacquer, and attached marble caps to them. On one of the tables, there is a sculptural composition "Prepare for Water Procedures" by Tatiana Antoshina, which became one of the winners of the sculpture competition at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. For the "Palace" lamp, we asked a skilled craftsman to weld a frame from simple wire, and the crystal drops were ordered from Italy. On the fireplace, there is an inverted Napoleon by Yuri Khorovsky and "Rocket Caravans" by Antoshina. Her transparent, iridescent squirrel sculpture from the "Steppe Opera," a small model for the sculpture "Pussy" on the desk in the children's room, and a whole series of rubber models from the "Asia" project in the bathroom. During a vacation in Piran, Slovenia, a mannequin was found on the dump, which found its place in the bedroom.
In the kitchen, above the built-in refrigerator, "Youth on a Sphere," "Guardian Angel," and domes from the installation "Flooded Square" by Tatiana Antoshina are placed like on a podium.
Next to the mannequin, there is a vibrant table made according to our sketches - colored plaster balls were put on reinforcement and filled with liquid plastic. On the wall made of aged mirrors, the ghost of Voltaire settled, which Tatiana Antoshina made for an exhibition, but something went wrong when pouring the plastic - Voltaire did not take the desired shape, straightened out, and began to resemble a ghost or a jellyfish. He was rejected and settled in the new apartment, almost like a Domovoy (a house spirit). The bust of Catherine the Great was purchased at an antique market, but its placement on the bedside table has no historical context, it is just a coincidence.
