The apartment is located in the heart of Kiev on the street. Bogdan Khmelnitsky, in a profitable house of 1900 - in a classic for that time building with high ceilings. The apartment had a large front hallway-gallery with windows and arches, a loggia and a balcony.

These inputs became the beginning of the concept - the corridor as a connecting artery runs along the entire apartment, and unites all the zones without looking at individual rooms. We modernized the arches, making them taller and more complex due to the combination of two materials - figured plinth and internal wooden box. We insulated the loggia and attached it to the kitchen, placing there a greenhouse for plants.

On the other side, the object had a lot of visual noise - lots of niches in the walls, differences in floor heights and open old communications.

Already at the stage of dismantling, we realized that we would have to do a reconstruction of the floor, which was wooden and slab concrete, and all windows and openings in the walls should be additionally tightened with a metal frame. Thinking about the future design with the customer, we decided to take elements of the classic style, which in the context of the apartments revealed their potential, and the main emphasis is to make the subject design of the 30s - 70s, which tells its story against the background of classic portals, fireplace and plaster decor.

This is how the vintage Sassina chairs appeared in the living room that we found in Berlin, and some of the pieces, being new to manufacture, are essentially design classics - Pierre Jeanneret chairs, Louis Poulsen, Flos and Vibia lamps, sofas - B&B Italia, bed - Porro.

Metal kitchen is our author's product, where as a basis of form we took a chest of drawers and a buffet - a traditional composition for the dining area, but in a modern interpretation.

Glass partition in the bedroom - separates the wardrobe and is the brightest color palette in the project. The idea was to create an interior that transmits a sense of stability and tranquility, so they preferred materials such as tinted oak, marble, stainless steel and brass, which over time only acquire greater expressiveness.

For example, in the manufacture of terrazzo, we added sand to the mixture as an experiment, and obtained a more complex and natural texture, and on the walls, a mineral plaster based on marble chips and lime.

The design of the apartments is closely related to art in its various manifestations - such as subject design and contemporary Ukrainian art. Culture - Dmitry Grek, diptych in the kitchen - Rostyslav Zavgorodny, painting - Christina Otchych-Chernyak. All this helped create a lively interior, where we dreamed of the mid century theme in its Kiev interpretation.

Despite the fact that the project was started before the war in Ukraine, and implemented it already during air alarms, light outages and missile attacks - we accepted this challenge by implementing all the original ideas without changes, and proved that design and creativity are on time.

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