gently club-like. People of the Union of Architects (whose making that is) continue to seem here - at the least monthly, once they come to pay for their account fees. The restaurant of the Home of Architects in Granatny pereulok has from Soviet situations been known for their mixture of exclusiveness and democratic patience - like all eateries in creative unions, incidentally.
When your choice was taken to refurbish it the manufacturers were confronted by two problems. The first was the power of custom, which inspired individuals to respect this as a type of personal team primarily for architects and their friends. The second was the space's unambiguous and rigid structure. The tradition had to be maintained in some way; the architecture, to be left intact. Right away, it absolutely was determined that the large
"main" room, the powerful pseudo-antique columns separating the latter from the tiny "side-chapels", and the tiny cafe ' in the "vestibule" could be preserved. But it's difficult to think that the inside built in the 1970s in a mode reminiscent more of the Soviet Baltic states than of Moscow - more of Jurmala than Palanga, - a strong, obviously intense interior, might be therefore transformed. And developed, moreover, minus the intervention of a professional architect. Leaving the architecture untouched, interior-decorator Albina Nazimova has made the cafe more "feminine", smoother, and - more complex.
A hint of withering, a couple of falls of bourgeoiserie, a faint nostalgia for the vanished Great Empire. The prevailing claret was diluted with gray; the ultramarine was diluted with gray, and the natural, also diluted with grey. The end result is a classy pallor, like everything were covered with a level of memorial dirt - that non-specialists aren't recommend to touch.
Albina Nazimova claims she wanted "the key Kitchen designer scheme and mental color to derive from what Ilya Piganov was doing" ;.The cafe has ten sections by that well-known Moscow artist. Each one is photo-collages noticed through difficult strategy that Piganov developed himself. These performs match neatly to the difficult space. Piganov's items are, on the one hand, complicated and carefully made.
It's possible to look at them permanently just like Persian miniatures or exceptionally patterned picture on a sleepless night. On the other hand, they're hidden and easily disappear into the backdrop when people hope to target on another thing - a significant quality in art which is to be displayed in a community space. Not merely the colors, nevertheless the furniture and lighting are successful. The restaurant
