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designers
‘Happy design projects
are made in heaven’
Mike Shilov is a successful designer whose projects are the prototypes that are
copied, and whose master-classes are so unfailingly popular that he became one
of the teachers for the MosBuild School. His workshop ‘Bathroom Design: How
to Avoid Mistakes’ takes place on 17 April 2013 in Expocentre.
M
ike Shilov’s design style features a whole
range of unique interior design solutions
with examples and principles of construction,
which he will share with participants at the
MosBuild School.
Any of the designer’s projects begins with planning.
The most important is to ‘think about the convenience
of the transition – and then to create beauty.’
For example, in apartments with two sides with an
entrance in the centre planning was divided into two
sections: living room on the right-hand side, private
area on the left-hand side. Both zones are separated
from the lobby by moveable glass doors, providing
excellent sound insulation.
In contract to the modern trends to combine incongruous
elements Mike Shilov chooses subjects for the
interior ‘that resemble philosophy.’ His favourite colour
solution is light grey tones, smoky and cool tints. As a
result this is Shilov’s individual style, which can be referred
to as expensive minimalism.
For example, in one design-project on one wall is hung
a mixed media design in white varnish and frosted
glass on an ebony decorative carving, and on the other,
a Toncelli kitchen made of ebony with a varnished,
glossy facade. In different parts of the apartment one
encounters marble tiles, mosaics and slabs, but it is all
the same type of marble which does not disrupt the
harmony of the interior.
Michael Shilov also adds that it’s time to tackle the
situation of a lack of light. So on some “gloomy”
apartment walls the decision has been taken to cover
them with a metallic pigment, similar to old gold: ‘It
twinkles, but there is no direct shine’ he explains.
It is completely appropriate to fill an expensively conceived
interior with the right technical equipment. In
Mike Shilov’s ‘intelligent projects’ lights, the entrance
bell alarm and even the window blinds can be controlled
from the same panel.
The ‘coral’ apartments in the centre of Moscow became
one of his well-known interiors. Coral-coloured
metallic window frames where the starting point of
the project, as they could not be dismantled in case
the facade of the old building suffered. As a result the
whole colour range of the interior consisted of warm,
luminous tints. Coral and the colour of elephant hide
are completed by warm nutty tones, the golden shimmer
of South-American oak, muffled by the tones of
hide and textiles. Stylised objects in the interior took
shape among the palette that came into being. The
Nanimarquina felt carpet, reflecting each shade of the
interior from coral to green, became the centre of the
project and its final point. The author believes in the
intentions of Divine powers that the carpets would
be used in these apartments, as, like Mike Shilov says:
‘happy design projects, like happy marriages, are made
in heaven – at least that’s what I think!’
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