A Quirky Apartment Full of Color + Pattern

Daria Vasilkova, of the Artwork Group, alongside Oksana Zavarzina and Evgeny Schevchenko, of LakeandWalls, has given life to a unusual, colourful house that stands because the epitome of her distinctive type. Situated on Kutuzovsky Avenue within the coronary heart of Moscow, the house boasts a daring colour palette, a mixture of design aesthetics, a mixture of supplies, and a playful array of ceramic tiles, which Vasilkova designed herself.

Every room makes a design assertion, particularly with the in depth use of ceramic tiles, most from her personal tile firm referred to as Reda. Russia, on the whole, hasn’t grown to understand using tiles, leading to Vasilkova to launch her personal firm that produces tiles with unique designs. She likes to make use of them in sudden methods, like adorning partitions in lieu of wallpaper, on window slopes, and furnishings facades.

The centerpiece of the kitchen is the higher financial institution of heat wooden cupboards with wavy fronts. Flanking the middle cupboards are two built-in wall cupboards in white with pink accents. A shiny kitchen faucet provides one other pink ingredient. The eating space, which shares the identical gradient blue tile flooring, pops with Mullit and Magnum chairs by Sancal in several variations of inexperienced, pink, and blue round a easy desk. Trying like two eyes hanging above, two Miami pendants by Il Fanale cling as a ultimate sudden contact.

A customized steel bookcase in the lounge, which holds a mixture of books, objects, and crops, is mounted onto black and white patterned Reda tiles.

The pink continues all through the lounge protecting the baseboard molding and a customized mirror.

A cobalt blue cupboard clad in Reda’s Sport 60’s tiles lives below a sculptural mirror by Elisaveta Solonitsyna, additionally manufactured from ceramics by Reda.

Even the bedrooms have sudden but intelligent particulars, like this tradition, perfortated wall that doubles as a headboard in one of many youngster’s rooms.

A few of the tiles have been impressed by Russian fairytales, just like the blue and white ones framing the window within the above bed room on the left. Aptly named “Goals,” this tile assortment offers nod to the heroes present in these tales.

Images by Mikhail Loskutov.

Caroline Williamson is Editor-in-Chief of Design Milk. She has a BFA in pictures from SCAD and may often be discovered looking for classic wares, doing New York Instances crossword puzzles in pen, or transforming playlists on Spotify.