The house where the flat is located is connected to the Mosselprom building in the Arbat District of Moscow, which is notable for its painted panels by Alexander Rodchenko and his wife Varvara Stepanova, with slogans written by Vladimir Mayakovskiy.
The main task was to make the flat look more avant-garde and less decorated like it was in the Stalinist era, and more related to late 1920s and early 1930s ideas of modernist design.
It is designed for a family with two children. The space is divided into communal and private areas. The communal areas are the hallway and kitchen which connects to the living room. The private spaces are two children’s rooms and a main bedroom.
A plywood cupboard with a softly curved seat was designed for the hallway to store outerwear and accessories.
All the black doors in the flat lead to the toilets and the white ones to the other rooms.
For the living room, a shelving unit was designed which hides a TV and a fold-out tabletop.
The sitting area is filled with two Jean Prouvé lounge chairs, a Marcel Breuer sofa and a plywood coffee table designed by Barber & Osgerby.
The kitchen area is equipped with a tiled island and Alvar Alto’s K65 high chairs for socialising with family and friends.
One of the children’s rooms is organised around a multifunctional modular unit consisting of a bed, wardrobe, and additional storage space.
It also has a slide-out tabletop, which can be removed, freeing up space for games.
Both children’s rooms are connected by a bathroom with a bath and a shower.
A plywood bed with a wide headboard shelf and a cabinet with sliding doors were designed for the second children’s room.
The bed, with a pop-up TV at the foot, in the main bedroom was devised using the same principle.
Folding doors lead into the main bathroom with a hammam.
The main bedroom also features a white walk-in wardrobe as a backdrop for choosing clothes. A clerestory window has been included here to provide additional daylight.
