The Artform bureau team shows what a real honest loft can be in Moscow conditions.
The kitchen island is made to order in the Art_mobiliere workshop; sink and faucets, Kohler; extractor hood and refrigerator, Sub-Zero & Wolf / La Cornue; other appliances, Gaggenau; chairs, Archzavod.Photo: Mikhail Loskutov
The cooperation of Nina Target and Dmitry Rozov was formed brick by brick. The reason for the first acquaintance was the building of the former Kadashevsky baths on Bolshaya Ordynka, converted into lofts a few years ago. A married couple with grown-up children bought an apartment on the attic floor here and began looking for architects who would put it in order. Mutual acquaintances brought them together with Dmitry, who was working in France at the time, and he, in search of a Moscow bureau with which to pull such a project, came to Nina and her “Artform”. Since then they have been working together; this apartment is their first, but not their only project. It’s just that the work here was so painstaking that it took several years.
Living room. Slate table, Joris Van Apers; sofa, Baxter; carpet, CC Tapis. The owner of the house plays the Steinway grand piano. The partitions are made according to the design of Dmitry Rozov in the company Art_mobiliere and painted by him personally.
Photo: Mikhail Loskutov
Tseleva shows photos of the premises in her phone before the renovation — the chipped walls look like after a massive shelling. “It’s a sauna – temperature, humidity. The brick is being destroyed”” explains Dmitry. A graduate of the Department of Restoration in Delft, he was at first horrified by how they usually work with old masonry in Moscow, but pretty quickly fate sent him and Nina a dream master. “There was a man named Koss, very unusual – he looks like a hermit, bearded and always in black,” the authors of the project say. — He bought an old brick, cut “veneers” from it and put them on lime mortar where it was necessary to “heal” the wall. For about two months there was a red torch over the Kadashas – dust from grinding and cutting bricks””
A fragment of the living room. The library of antique materials is made to order, Joris Van Apers; armchairs, De Padova. Koss Mishin was engaged in the restoration of the brickwork. The window offers a view of the Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “Joy To All The Mourners.”
Photo: Mikhail Loskutov
Armchair, La Redoute Interieurs, 61,299 rubles.
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A fragment of the living room. Staircase and railing, Archzavod; antique lamp from Berlin.
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The space of the apartment is very unusual – not only thanks to the initial data, but also through the efforts of architects. “Two hundred and twenty—five meters, two floors, one bedroom,” Dmitry lists. “The height from seven meters in the ridge to ninety centimeters under the roof slopes is about forty square meters here, where you can’t stand up to your full height.” No attempts to “save” meters by making built-in wardrobes in this dead zone — the interior is harsh, but airy. The first floor is conventionally divided into “inside” (kitchen and dining room) and “outside” (living room with a porch leading to the second level, and tall plants in tubs, and really giving this space a resemblance to a garden).
The kitchen island is made to order in the Art_mobiliere workshop; sink and faucets, Kohler; extractor hood and refrigerator, Sub-Zero & Wolf / La Cornue; other appliances, Gaggenau; chairs, Archzavod.
Photo: Mikhail Loskutov
Screw stool, La Redoute Interieurs, 21,564 rubles.
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In the study there is an antique showcase from Amsterdam; the table is made to order, Joris Van Apers; lamp, Lampe Gras; carpet, De Padova.
Photo: Mikhail Loskutov
“This is the rare case when the loft is fully justified,” says Nina. — I often look at some projects: an apartment building, and it has a brick wall, which historically should not be there. It seems to me that this is an outrage – the interior should be appropriate”” The customers, as the authors say, gave them carte blanche in terms of the ideological side of the project, but immersed themselves in the details no less than the architects themselves. ”We started by going to Amsterdam with them to see what lofts should look like,” Dmitry recalls. Then there was a trip to Belgium, from where they eventually brought antique wood for the ceiling (boards for maturing cheeses from some farm that preserved traces of cheese heads), and Florence, where Rozov and the customer bought doors for cabinets in the hallway. The slate coffee table was made in Belgium, together with customers marking the shape of the table top with chalk. Such a degree of involvement requires emotional investments on both sides, but the result is excellent: the customer immersed in the project understands why the mirrors in the bookcase should be antique, and the imperfect nodes need to be redone, although the imperfection is noticeable only to professionals.
Bedroom with a view of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Kadashi. Bed, Baxter; bedside tables, Joris Van Apers; lamps, Lumina.
Photo: Mikhail Loskutov
The bedroom and bathroom are designed as a single space, separated only by transparent partitions, Archzavod; armchairs, Gervasoni.
Photo: Mikhail Loskutov
Bathtub, Drummonds, with mixer tap, Margot Robinetterie; floor and ceiling are made of antique board, Joris Van Apers; decorative coatings and brickwork restoration were performed by master Koss Mishin. The round window appeared during the renovation — before that, there was just a hole in the wall in its place.
Photo: Mikhail Loskutov
In the bathroom there is an antique mirror made of Amsterdam; sconces, Karman; sink and faucets, Kohler; lighting, De Padova.
Photo: Mikhail Loskutov
Nina Tseleva says that when she began posting photos of the project to her Instagram, many wrote in the comments: “How not to Moscow”. “It seems to be a compliment, but I felt a little offended — it turns out that if it’s well done, it means it’s not in Moscow,” she says. This project really borrowed the best foreign practices — in terms of materials and generally honest attitude to the quality of work. But the views from the windows will not let you make a mistake: we are in the heart of Moscow. “For many, a loft is a welded structure with a square cross section and glowing letters. There’s none of that here, but it’s also a loft. We wanted to show that it can be made elegant, beautiful and expensive”” concludes Dmitry.
In the hallway antique floor, Joris Van Apers; metal structures, Archzavod; on the right antique doors from Florence; mirror, Porro.
Photo: Mikhail Loskutov
Shortly before shooting the interior, the owner’s cat of the Kuril Bobtail breed brought kittens. In the background you can see part of the closet, Joris Van Apers; stairs, Archzavod.
Photo: Mikhail Loskutov
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