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Entwurf • Design Harry Nurjev/Crosby Studios
Bauherr • Client Lika Luin Group
Standort • Location Krasnopresnenskaya, RU-Moskau
Nutzfläche • Floor space 166 m 2
Fotos • Photos Mikhail Loskutov
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More infos on page 174

RESTAURANT

PINK MAMA IN MOSKAU

Russian Harry Nuriev is regarded as one of the most in-
fluential avant-gardists of the former Soviet bloc. In
2014, he founded Crosby Studios directly at the Mos-
cow Architecture Institute, where he also studied. In
2016, he opened another architectural office in Willi-
amsburg. It is said that he likes to compare his passion
for colour with a relationship: sometime sour.

H is work was "a mixture of Bauhaus, Art déco of the 1980s and
Scandinavian Art déco of the middle of the century, a style that
the New York Times calls ‘global minimalism’", wrote The Guardian
about Harry Nuriev. The Russian architect and interior designer is
said to have preferred a delicate Cadillac pink for a long time before
switching to a blue "halfway between Picasso and Yves Klein". Last
year, he created a series of ultraviolet furniture for the opening ce-
remony of a New York boutique and has been working on red ever
since. The colour concept in the Pink Mama restaurant with its red,
faded pink, industrial green, and a big star decorating the bar is re-
miniscent of the Stalinist era. The analogy is intentional: the buil-
ding itself dates from Stalin’s days, and the office workers of the go-
vernment authorities in this part of town are children of that time.
The Pink Mama with a floor area of 166 square metres is divided
into two areas that take up the zoning existing before the conver-
sion. A distinctive bar with a counter and small tables clad in cop-
per sheeting, whose delicate rosé harmonises with deep red bar
stools, chairs, and benches in front of an identically coloured wall,
invites guests to enjoy an aperitif in a warm atmosphere. Cool ele-
gance, however, awaits the guest in the actual seating area, an airy
restaurant hall with high windows. Circular, upholstered dining
areas with industrial green velvet covers in front of the windows are
complemented by small tables finished in oak veneer and upholste-
red chairs with velvet covers in rose and light grey, which zone the
centre of the room. An all-round, half-height wall cladding made of
printed glass elements, framed with fine copper profiles, features an
exciting colour gradient from dark green (at the top) to transparent
(at the bottom), which gradually reveals the raw wall structure be-
hind and bathes the lower part of the wall in a powdery rosé by
means of the recurring profiles in the reflection of the glass. In front
of the windows, the wall elements are split up into sliding screens
Grundriss • Floor plan that allow an individual play with daylight.

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