Total Area: 81 sq. m. Location: Kyiv
Project Implementation: commissioned in 2014
Photos by: Andrei Avdeienko
This is the very place for travellers and culture vultures. Eclecticism is when the immergeable is naturally merged: a whole load of furnishings that have been brought from different parts of the world for years such as a set of vintage colour glasses, Ukrainian ceramics, Philippe Starck Chairs and the grand grandma’s favourite chest of drawers. The interior is based on the impressions and stories about the art objects to be told for many nights. Here you can find the exhibits by the favourite designers as well as those from the personal exhibition of Sergei Makhno “A Life of Ideas”. Like an art gallery, a new house of Sergei and Vlada Makhno constantly changes its expositions. It must be a “side” effect of the architect and designer’s job as their routine lies in creating new objects – pictures, sculptures, patterns of furniture and décor. In the bedroom there is a table created long ago by Sergei for his first participation in a furniture design contest where he won a prize. The bed “Vytynianka” from polished stainless steel was made for the last year personal exhibition and a picture of it was published in top Ukrainian magazines on architecture and design just as a collection of ceramics, chairs “Sinusoid”, vases «Invariants» from glass, concrete and wood, the “Book table” and tree-liter lamps “Jar” were. Now they have found their place in the apartment. The author’s chandeliers “Bubenchiki” single out brightly against the black wall in the island-shaped metal kitchen. A creative approach has been also applied to sinks in the bathroom – they are made from a massive industrial pipe. That is how they were thought up, designed and constructed. Ideas must come to live! The apartment used to be the workshop of Sergei Makhno where no further than six months ago a team of architects and designers created and implemented new projects. This place is significant for five years of creative and fruitful work. And now, being redecorated, it has become a new house of the creative couple – the house inhabited with ideas.
