Stars Apartments: Reception at Glucose

Elle Decor: This apartment is not at all like you …

Natasha Ionova: It is not surprising, because her husband was engaged in its design. Now I will cause the envy of thousands of women: Sasha chose absolutely everything, down to tablecloths and curtains. I only voiced my wishes. For example, I wanted a large glass dressing room so that all the outfits were visible, and a separate bathroom, and my husband, together with the architect Dmitry Petrov, was already deciding how to implement this. What did you expect to see? Some cyberdom or spaceship …

Such a dwelling would suit the heroine of my videos, but not me. Especially today, when I changed my image. Have you seen the new video “Dance, Country”? Not yet? Take a look! And then, a lot depends on the place. Petersburg tunes to a special wave… Here you want to live like Catherine the Great or Elizaveta Petrovna, hence the style. But, on the other hand, we do not live in the XNUMXth century, so there are many modern designer items in the interior.

Which for example?

A large black Zenit chandelier designed by Philippe Starck for Baccarat – a gift from friends for our wedding. Or English cuisine, Clive Christian.

Do you cook a lot?

Few. But we come to St. Petersburg for a short time and usually order ready-made food. Much more important than cuisine for us spacious dining room for receiving guests. I always fuss and take care of everyone. Sometimes the husband can’t stand it: “Musya, calm down already, sit with us.” From the dining room, everyone usually smoothly moves to the card table. And although we ourselves do not gamble, we love to relax here, drink coffee or smoke a cigar.

What is your favorite place in the house?

Glazed balcony. We love to have breakfast here. In Moscow, because of the crazy speeds, this does not happen often – we are always in a hurry somewhere. But in St. Petersburg, as in Paris, there is always time for a joint breakfast: aromatic coffee, hot croissants with jam … We comfortably sit in armchairs and admire the view of the city.

There are many Chinese things in the apartment …

This is the last hobby of her husband. There was a funny story recently. Sasha calls: “Now they will bring us two Chinese figurines. Place them on the terrace so that you can’t see it from the house. ” The movers are right there. I go out and see a gardener, green with horror, and two colossus two fifty high, which are not so much from the house – you can see from the neighboring area! The husband is also in shock. It turns out that he only saw them in the photograph in the catalog and did not pay attention to the size. Now we are trying to stick these statues somewhere. Max Fadeev, by the way, is also not indifferent to everything Chinese. This is noticeable in my videos. Have you noticed the samurai in the office? It was sculpted by our great friend, the Buryat sculptor Dashi Namdakov. This is Putin’s favorite master. He does amazingly beautiful things. I even wear a pendant of his work around my neck, look!

Do you have any phobias related to home?

Very low and very high floors scare me alike. We have an apartment on the 23rd floor in Moscow – that’s how my grandmother settled there as a result. I often ask her: “Well, granny, okay?” – “Oh, baby, like in heaven.” I also don’t like natural light. I always hang my windows thick heavy curtains… Everyone is surprised: “Well, how are you sitting in a hole?” And I need it like a burrow. This is probably the flip side of publicity.

Admit it, who maintains order in the house?

I. I was taught to do this from childhood – even in hotel rooms I clean up. When there is a mess around, it is impossible to concentrate. One wise Jewish woman once told me: “If you want to know what kind of mistress is your daughter-in-law, look into her purse.” So, in my bag everything is laid out in compartments. Do you want me to show you ?!

It was about the star’s apartment for receiving guests and short stops in her husband’s hometown. Nobody was going to live here permanently. This untied our hands, and this explains the extreme extremism of the interior. Frankly speaking, we would never have allowed ourselves such a madness with a Chinese accent in Moscow, where the oriental interior has recently acquired a rough restaurant-club character. Petersburg is another matter. Here, completely different associations are born – for example, with the Chinese rooms of the imperial palaces. Plus the color scheme chosen by the customer. Alexander wanted an energetic contrasting interior. China’s characteristic red-black-gold palette has become our medium of expression.

This apartment (213 sq. M.) Is located in an ineptly renovated historic building. As a result, half of the rooms (living room, study, hallway and guest bedroom) have low ceilings – only 2,3 m. We compensated for the vertical understatement with density and saturation horizontally. The filling of the rooms is intense – furniture and accessories are bright, catchy, obliging, it is impossible to tear yourself away from them. The psychological impact of the interior is so strong that it distracts from the overhanging ceiling. If you are tired of intimacy, you can go to the kitchen-dining room, where the ceilings are high enough. It is important to understand that they do not live in an apartment permanently, otherwise this technique would not be justified. The second problem is tiny windows, especially in the elongated living room. We adapted the room for a home theater and card table.

The very function of these zones implies subdued evening lighting. A glazed balcony is attached to the apartment from the side of the kitchen. Despite the fact that its function is to fill the house with the sun, would-be designers have oriented it into a courtyard-well. He literally rests against the wall mastered by pigeons and rains. What can you say here? It is pointless to fight the eternal St. Petersburg dullness, so we exaggerated it by choosing a monochrome scale for the kitchen. A breakfast table was set up in front of the window. The view reveals not only the brickwork and firewall of the house opposite, but also the golden spire of the Engineering Castle soaring into the sky. The view is stunning, it resembles Dobuzhinsky’s 1921 lithographs dedicated to St. Petersburg. It is impossible to express, you can only feel it.