The apartment is designed for living, mainly for one person - a young girl. This is the reason for such a free layout.
There is also a cat among the tenants, and special attention is paid to it, there is a place for a feeding trough with a drinker, as well as a place for a camera, through which you can monitor the serviceability of the ‘cat’ equipment.
We can say that we were lucky with the original layout, it was a single space without partitions.
In this interior we used the concept of flowing spaces. The rooms are connected to each other and have only conventional boundaries.
The entrance hall, kitchen, living room, winter garden (where the bar and reading area are located) are one space.
The lounge area, where the bar and reading area are located, is separated only by translucent plant shelves.
There is a sliding door at the entrance to the bedroom, and when it is pushed into the wall, it looks like there is no door at all, because it slides flush with the wall and is floor to ceiling high.
Entering the bedroom, there are no hard boundaries between the master bathroom and the bedroom, they are separated only by a partition which is located across the entire width of the room and runs from floor to ceiling.
At the entrance to the dressing room are sliding doors made of frosted glass through which light from the window penetrates, so we can close the doors to the dressing room, but the light from the window will penetrate into the dark part of the flat. When the doors are open, the dressing room becomes one with the entrance hall and the adjoining rooms.
There are no windows in the hallway area, so we decided to make a floor-to-ceiling mirror on one of the walls, with a width of almost the entire wall.
The mirror in the hallway is located opposite the panoramic window of the conservatory and reflects it, so we have a window in the hallway.
In the process of work there were many tasks, but the unifying idea was to create a whole space, not cluttered with a lot of partitions and walls, not only comfortable for living but also one in which you would constantly discover something new.
As finishing materials we used oak parquet flooring, large-format porcelain stoneware 2780x1200 mm, wall panels from MDF.
A separate difficult task for us was to lift all the ordered large-format porcelain stoneware to the 13th floor. It did not fit in the freight lift, it was not possible to lift it by crane and bring it through the window, so it was lifted manually by a whole team of builders up the stairs to the 13th floor. They lifted it piecemeal, intermittently, but in the end not a single tile was broken.
On the walls used only paint except for two walls in the dressing room, where we used wallpaper imitating wall fabric panels.
The interior is made in black and white, with bright colour accents, it is orange in the bathrooms and bedroom, and blue chairs in the kitchen. Almost all the walls are white in colour, which creates an effect of airiness.
We tried to maintain this effect even in small things, for example, the dining table has only one glass support.
The custom-made furniture is as functional as possible and does not stand out in colour. At the same time, we added bright accents in the kitchen area and in the bedroom.
In freestanding furniture we favoured Italian manufacturers, while in custom-made furniture we worked with Russian manufacturers.
In the dressing room the dressing table was made to order, a separate wish from the customer was a request to make a backlit mirror, but at the same time we did not want to pull a wire from it, and therefore we made the lighting for the mirror from a battery, which can be easily charged from the nearby in-floor socket.
A coffee table designed by us according to individual sketches was successfully integrated into the winter garden area.
In the course of our work, we used quite a few technological solutions.
The partition separating the bedroom from the bathroom is made of smart glass, which can be made transparent or frosted at will, and when the transparency mode is switched on, the bedroom and the master bathroom visually become one room. This keeps the overall idea of an open and uncluttered space. And if you need privacy in the master bathroom, you can switch on the frosted glass mode and the space will look like a separate room.
In the bathrooms and in the kitchen area we used hidden ventilation grilles, so they do not attract unnecessary attention, but at the same time fulfil their direct function.
We had a similar approach in lighting design, yes, we have chandeliers and pendant lights in the project, but we also made the main lights built-in without unnecessary frames and framing.
In the kitchen island, for example, we didn't really want to make ordinary sockets with frames that would stand out a lot, so we developed special integrated sockets especially for the kitchen island.
Built-in curtain rods with an electric motor are a rare surprise nowadays, but in this space with large panoramic glazing, they add extra comfort.
We also paid special attention to the TVs; we chose the TV in the living room so that it would look equally good from both sides, and the TV in the bedroom was chosen to be as flat as possible, imitating a picture when switched off.
Also in the bathroom of the bedroom we have provided an additional water filter so that you can wash your face with filtered water.
We managed to realise all the ideas in the project and in some cases even improved them.
It is interesting now to remember the process of realising the interior at the final stage, when the furniture was already being finished and at that moment the owner's cat was brought in and left to live there. It was a separate task for us to make sure that during the final delivery and assembly process no one touched him, he did not run away and that he was not very stressed by what was happening.