Surprised by the luxury of the neighbor’s apartment and rich furnishings? Perhaps they know these...

Do you love the beautiful interior as much as I do? Since I was a kid, I wanted to be a designer and create beauty around me. I probably didn’t know the word “designer” at the time, but I knew exactly how to do it. As time passed, my dream came true: I started working in design.

Over the years, experience has come, and what we saw at various exhibitions, conferences, construction sites, repairs, redevelopments has clearly formed a certain view, style, approach to work. Many things have changed, but one thing has remained unchanged: love. beautiful.

For creative, and any person is very important inspiration. So, I draw it from travel, the main object of contemplation for me is the architecture and interior decoration of houses, especially those in which the breath of history is felt. This is not a facade, and not even a front, but flat-roomPerhaps mutilated by communal life and layers of paint, but not killed by European repairs.





That is why I suggest you to familiarize yourself with an unusual selection of apartments in St. Petersburg. Many of them have preserved their features since pre-revolutionary times, and therefore they are beautiful. But the real interior should be just that – with character and history!

So, all lovers of towers, bells, ancient staircases, fireplaces, wooden parquet, unusual doors, high ceilings and unique views from the windows I invite to view 8 interesting apartments of St. Petersburg. This tour was prepared for you by the editorial board. "Site".

1. And here is the first masterpiece - an amazing mansard room with a residential tower in an old St. Petersburg house. Right from the apartment you can climb to the tower. They say that Gumilev wanted to build an analogue of Ivanov Tower in this apartment. And those who suggested that a wizard lives here have no idea how right they are.
   
   
   
   I got the impression that this study is much cooler than many museums.
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. This is a house of 1905 on the Petrograd side. Spacious hall with bay window and two balconies in a quiet corner of the northern capital.
   
   
   
   
   
   A few years ago it was a communal apartment, and a wall passed right through the stucco. The apartment fell into good hands, and a few years later everything here is exactly as it was when the house was built in 1905. The owner got old plans of apartments of different years and learned that there were times when this hall was divided into three rooms at once.
   
   
   
   
3. A stunning workshop in Buck's house on Kirochnaya Street, which in fact is a living room in a communal apartment.
   
   
   
   
   
   According to the legends of the residents, Lev Bakst himself worked in this workshop. He did live and work in Buck’s house from 1906 to 1910, but what apartment is still a matter of debate.
   
   
   
   
4. I was attracted to the details here. These are the interiors of an apartment in an Egyptian house on Zverinskaya Street, 31.
   
   
   
   The apartment has preserved a rare tiled stove of the Abo plant (model 176), as well as furniture left over from the original owners.
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. The former living room in the apartment of Andrei Petrovich Kiselev, the author of the most popular Russian and Soviet school textbooks on mathematical disciplines. In 1910, he purchased an apartment house on Vasilievsky Island - a sample of laconic northern modernity. He lived in an apartment until his death in 1940.
   
   
   
   
   
   In the postwar years, his apartment became communal and remains in this status to this day.
   
   
   
   
6. I also liked an apartment in the area of Sand with a rare polychrome oven of the early XX century.
   
   This interior is valuable because the German stove of such colors, perhaps the only one in St. Petersburg.
   
   
   
   
   
   
7. Here it is - a storehouse of unusual planning. For example, a light bulb right in one of the rooms of the apartment on the top floor. In St. Petersburg, lights are sometimes found above the stairs, but right in the apartment - a rare case.
   
   
   
   
   
   The lamp consists of a flat window in the ceiling of the apartment, a shaft that borders the attic, and a glass dome in the shape of a triangular prism.
   
   
   
   
8. I also admired the residential tower on the Petrograd side with the preserved historical spiral staircase.
   
   
   
   The current owners did not easily clean it of layers of Soviet paint. It is possible that the staircase was made by the famous factory of San Galli.
   
   
   
   

I also suggest you learn 5 secrets of the perfect interior from the famous French designer Joseph Diran, who drives not only Parisians crazy.



If I was a filmmaker and made a film about pre-revolutionary times, about artists, scientists, doctors and other talented and intelligent people of that time, I would definitely choose a similar apartment to shoot. And also, looking at these interiors, I want to say: “Tender old days, do not disappear!”

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