Photo: Kirill Ovchinnikov.
Small studio apartmentQuestion «Who's in the houseowner?» It's not worth it in this interior. Just look under your feet in the hallway. On a granite star in a brass frame, exactly like on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is written TIMATI. The same inscription, only in English, flaunts on the black grand piano in the living room. This grand piano, by the way, is not a simple one. Its glass lid is bordered by wooden extensions thirty centimeters wide. This miracle construction was made to order in the musical restoration association "Izmailovo". Firstly, for beauty. And secondly, so that the owner could use it as a dining table with a bar counter. Such a non-standard solution is explained quite simply. The total area of the apartment is only seventy meters. So it was possible to place a grand piano in it only on the condition that it would take on additional functions. The musical kitchen instrument has another bonus - a built-in "drunken disk" system, with which even a baby can play the First Concerto by P. I. Tchaikovsky. To do this, just press the secret button. In a moment, the first chords will be heard, and the keys will start "running" as if under the fingers of an invisible pianist. To amaze guests with the mastery of the game, the owner just needs to swing smoothly, move his hands along the keyboard and throw his head back during the culminating moments. Usually the trick is impressive. However, Timati can play the piano without technical support, as a child he regularly attended classes at a music school (though in the violin class).
Timati (aka Timur Yunusov)
The hallway became like the Hollywood Walk of Fame.The star of "Timati" made of granite with brass edging is built into the floor of black slate, ArdesiaThis entire show in the interior was planned and staged by the architect Ekaterina Grigorieva and decorator Irina Andreeva from the bureau "Stolitsa & Usadba". "From the outside it may seem that our client is seriously infected with star fever. But I assure you, this is not true at all. And although the peak of his baseball cap is certainly turned to the side, and a large diamond cross hangs around his neck, Tim's head is in place," laughs Irina. "His life is one continuous show. He loves to play tricks on the public and is literally gushing with ideas." At the request of the owner, the decorators installed a two-sided mirror with a "secret" in the wall between the guest toilet and the living room. If the lights are on in both rooms, nothing special happens. However, if you turn off the lights in the living room, the mirror turns into a transparent window. S-u-r-p-r-i-z!!! (For this case, the toilet has blinds for its visitors.) "Luckily, we managed to dissuade Timati from making a toilet in the form of an electric chair and buying a real throne from an old French castle, into which he planned to install a potty," the designers recall with horror. "That would have been too much.
The kitchen was made to order. Here Timati hung photos of his grandfather - the director of the music school
The living room has a leather sofa with skin insertszebras, Van Den Berg (South Africa). Floor lamp, Carella Carving. Horsehair curtain, CrinWe had a blast working on this project, – Irina continues. – Actually, our bureau specializes in country mansions in a classic style. Kitsch and ethnic motifs appeared in the apartment in response to what Timati does. The music he performs, – comes from black ghettos». «I have been close to African culture since childhood, – the owner confirms. – Hip-hop is in my blood» As for the scenery for this reality show, there is not a hint of props in it. Everything here is real. Zebra skin is zebra skin, not a dyed cow. The zebrawood is zebrawood, not stained oak. The 18th-century Buddha statue is made of white marble, not plaster. The African paintings and furniture are also authentic. The bed, for example, was brought from Cape Town. Irina bought the ebony sculpture of elephants walking among the vines from the Shona tribe during her trip to Zimbabwe. The gold plates, made using the dry varnish technique, are from Myanmar (former Burma). In the rays of the backlight, they sparkled like two suns and became the main decoration of the hallway.
African spirit bedroom gave hipped roof of zebrano and paintings by Mark Buku
The bedroom has a bed and mirror from Carella Carving.The crystal chandelier was bought at a flea market in France. The young rapper has no bad habits (they are not fashionable now). But he has useful ones. One of them, for example, is standing under a stream of water for forty minutes a day. In order to indulge in pleasure with comfort, he asked to make a large bathroom. In addition to a traditional shower cabin, it is equipped with a Turkish hammam. Thanks to powerful speakers built into the ceiling, you can enjoy water procedures with music.
The XVIII century Buddha sits on a pedestal lined with Chinese mosaic, Golden Glass, it also trimmed the ceiling
The walls of the bathroom are lined with slate in the color"African Autumn". Leather armchair, Van Den BergThe apartment is small, so the decorators tried not to overload it with details and achieve maximum effect with minimal means. "We covered the entire bathroom with slate. It is both a minimalist and very decorative material," comments Irina. "The most important element of the bedroom is the hipped ceiling. It does not press or compress the space, but looks very impressive. The height difference is only thirty centimeters, but due to the active zebrano pattern it seems deeper. We also tried not to overdo it with color. For example, we selected the kitchen fronts to match the walls exactly, thanks to which the bulky cabinets dissolve in space. The interior decorated in this way looks integral and not boring." Timati does not plan to change anything in his apartment. At least in the near future. "He is so rarely at home that he doesn't have time to get his fill of it all," explains Irina. "It happens that, having arrived in Moscow, he rushes from Sheremetyevo straight to Domodedovo with the same bag. So our show has every chance of becoming a "long-running" show. The apartment, with a total area of 70 sq. m., is located in the "Golden Keys-2" complex.
