A younger household with 4 kids just lately approached architect and designer Mihail Kurnosov, of the varsity/studio Artwork Depo Studio, to conceptualize their new 1,300-square-foot condo in Minsk. “Their want was to reorganize the house intelligently,” Kurnosov says. The problem required not simply eradicating a wall right here and there, however rethinking the function of a wall itself.
In lieu of conventional partitions, glass partitions carve the kitchen and dwelling space from the hallway. “It’s made in accordance with my sketches,” he says. “This resolution permits the utmost quantity of pure gentle to enter the hallway.” For the same outcome, he constructed a partition within the youthful youngsters’ bed room with perforations resembling polka-dots. Portholes in an association of latest panels remodel one other little one’s bed room from what he calls an “unlucky trapezoidal form” right into a “descending cascade.” An adjoining closet boasts a big mirror framed with a mosaic smalt gradient, behind which flows an Italian textile curtain to cover storage.
Within the major bed room, a skinny line picks up the colour of the customized pillows atop the customized mattress; it accommodates the overflow of the grey ceiling paint and varieties a form of cap on the room. Kurnosov additionally designed the bulbous bedside tables. “It’s good that I used to be in a position to work out the house intimately, not solely as an inside designer, however an object designer,” he says. He didn’t simply rethink the house intelligently, in the long run—he reorganized it totally.
