Designer Natalia Popandopulo tells how this bright interior was created, filled with art objects and antique details from the owners’ collection

Living room. Chairs, vintage. Chandelier, IKEA. The vase and sculptures are the property of the owners.

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Nikita Korostelev. Style: Diana Remizova

The customers are the owners of a large antique gallery in Moscow with museum—level exhibits. They are educated, delicate, funny, with a wonderful sense of humor. Throughout the renovation, the owners themselves were my main inspirers.

Sofa, Divan.ru . The painting is the property of the customers.

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Nikita Korostelev. Style: Diana Remizova

All the TK came down to the task of comfortably accommodating six people on an area of 65 sq.m. The apartment initially had a pretty good layout, it was only necessary to improve it a little. The changes most affected the hallway, which before the reconstruction was similar to a trapeze. The irregular shape was hidden with the help of a roomy storage system that combined a wardrobe and a pantry. The facades of the cabinets are painted in the color of the walls and look more like wall panels. The entrance area was separated from the rest of the space by an island partition. It is lined on the living room side with an aged mirror that reflects the scenery outside the window and doubles the amount of light.

The kitchen set and wall panels are made to order. Tile, Ape Souk. Table, SK Design. Viennese chairs and a display case for dishes were found on Avito. Hanging lamps, antiques.

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Nikita Korostelev. Style: Diana Remizova

Floor lamp, IKEA. Decorative plates are the property of the owners.

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Nikita Korostelev. Style: Diana Remizova

View of the hallway. Cabinets are made to order. The console was found on Avito.

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Nikita Korostelev. Style: Diana Remizova

The kitchen-dining room is located at the back of the room and is separated from the living room area by the volume of the bedroom. To let natural light into the space, we made a long transom window in the wall adjacent to the kitchen.

The bedrooms are as far away from each other as possible and are located on different sides of the main space. We moved the entrances to the rooms closer to the window line so that when the doors are open they can be viewed from the living room. So the apartment seems more spacious, and you can freely admire the view of the embankment and the domes of St. Nicholas Cathedral.

Bed, Divan.ru . Bedside tables are made to order. Sconces, IKEA.

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Nikita Korostelev. Style: Diana Remizova

Another important task was to visually increase the height of the ceiling. To do this, we painted it in the color of the walls, picked up rather low furniture and decorated the doors with high painted portals, which are framed with delicately shining brass stripes.

Chest of drawers, vintage.

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Nikita Korostelev. Style: Diana Remizova

Bed, Divan.ru . Lamps, vintage.

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Nikita Korostelev. Style: Diana Remizova

The main characters of the interior were items from the owners’ collection. At the very beginning of the project, the customer sent me photos of several “exhibits” with a modest question: “Can you use something in the interior?”. These were stunning antique lamps, an old Japanese porcelain vase, a sculpture by Rodin, decorative plates with hand-painted, Picasso lithographs, several incredible paintings by the St. Petersburg artist Liana El Safadi. I answered: “Can I have everything?”. And suddenly such different things came together like a puzzle into a single composition.

Wall tiles, Ape Souk. Floor tiles, Marazzi Italy. Plumbing, Grohe.

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Nikita Korostelev. Style: Diana Remizova

The authors of the project: designers Natalia and Konstantin Popandopulo, [email protected], Grohe.

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Nikita Korostelev. Style: Diana Remizova

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