It is not easy to find a real loft in Moscow, and it is even more difficult to design it, having fully maintained the style. The owners of these apartments managed to cope with the task without the help of professionals

In this project, all the conditions for creating a real loft coincided: the place is “Danilovskaya Manufactory”, the space is large, echoing, with high ceilings, the architecture is old brick walls, Monier arches*, concrete supports sticking out of the wall, huge windows with factory bindings. But the main thing is the situation: not a perfect picture from the catalog, but motley things collected from all over the world — all “lived”, as if they had stood here for ten years and managed to get used to each other. The integrity and harmony of this interior is the merit of the hostess Oksana Schenova. “How did I manage to create a real loft? I just realized my old dream,” she says. Oksana is a lawyer by profession, made a successful career in an investment company, and then left it and began to work as a stylist, design events, come up with corporate gifts. Her dream of a loft arose a long time ago, even before this word came into use in Moscow. A few years ago, Oksana and her husband Marat Bashirov visited friends in a real London loft and immediately realized that they wanted to live this way.

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Evgeny Kulibaba

In the photo: Living room. The peculiarity of the apartments “Danilovskaya Manufactory”: all the inter-apartment partitions are made of old bricks of the XIX century, extracted from buildings that were demolished. At first, they also wanted to make the wall between the living room and the bedroom brick, but the management company resisted: the load on the floors would be too great. As a result, the wall was made of foam blocks and painted gray.

Having accidentally learned about the first Moscow residential loft complex “Danilovskaya Manufactory”, the couple immediately went there. “There was nothing here yet, not even the walls between the apartments,” Oksana recalls. – It was a strange feeling: you stand and see the entire floor as a whole, only the contours of the apartments are outlined in chalk.” Then there were three years of construction.

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Evgeny Kulibaba

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Evgeny Kulibaba

In the photo on the left: The office is located on a glazed veranda. The staircase leads to the mezzanine, where the owners plan to place the library. The floor lamp is made by the owner of the house. In the photo on the right: Living room. Mirror, dining table, chairs, everything – Dialma Brown. Lamps above the table, Leform. The candlesticks, assembled as if from pieces of ice— are the work of the Venetian master Luigi Benzoni.

Architect Valeria Lazareva helped to sort out the layout: she turned out to have a large bright living room with a kitchen recessed into a niche and a private area separated by a partition: a bedroom, a large bathroom, as well as two mezzanines with a dressing room and a library and an office on a glazed veranda. “We are very grateful to Valeria, the layout is really convenient,” says Oksana. — But then we decided to act ourselves: Lera insisted on a more “smoothed” version, we wanted brutality – bricks, rough concrete supports. Otherwise, why bother with the loft at all?” As a result, Oksana took over the interior. “I didn’t specifically look for anything and didn’t invent anything. Things were asking for our hands.” A coffee table made of rough-hewn wood arrived by car from Mezhev, where the couple go skiing in winter. “He traveled with us for a long time in Europe, then he was gathering dust in a warehouse for a long time, but he still waited in the wings.” Oksana saw a chandelier for the living room in the catalog of an American store. Through the Internet, she found a lot of intermediaries delivering things from America, but they all refused to carry a bulky lamp. “I complained about it on my blog, and some girl immediately responded, offering to find the same chandelier and bring it to Russia. Miracles happen!”

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Evgeny Kulibaba

In the photo: Bedroom. A spiral staircase leads to the mezzanine, where the dressing room is located.

There are also things in the interior created by the owners themselves. Oksana’s husband, a top manager of an energy company, makes table lamps at his leisure from figurines bought at flea markets and even old kerosene lamps. The metal console for the TV is also his product: Marat cooked it himself, and for the countertop he ordered boards from old sheds from France. “The wind, the sun and the woodworm bugs have turned these pieces of wood into a real work of art,” he explains. – It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” Really. But not everyone can see such beauty.

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Evgeny Kulibaba

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Evgeny Kulibaba

In the photo on the left: The bathroom is the only room in the house where the brick walls are covered with paint. Posters above the bathroom are reproductions of Banksy’s works from the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

In the photo on the right: The kitchen is located in the niche of the living room. A special pride of the hostess is the Ilve electric stove in vintage style.

Marina Yushkevich

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