Interior design of an apartment, 114 m²

In the designers' long experience, the first impression of a space is formed at the door, so it matters to catch the daylight from the threshold. In the evening the setting sun floods the living room through tall timber blinds, with a view over the city beyond.

Graphite walls, a ribbed panel behind the television and a pale sectional sofa hold the restrained palette, while an orange leather lounge chair and a terracotta throw add warmth. A glass coffee table, a black baluster side table and lit niches with a bar display create the feeling of an evening lounge with a view over the city.

The kitchen and all the cabinetry were made to the studio's drawings: white fronts without handles, a dark marble worktop and splashback, and light above the bar counter arranged as vertical pendants of different lengths. A round table on a metal base and terracotta velvet chairs turn the dining area into an accent of its own within the open space.

A lit bar cabinet with a glass front holds glasses and wine, and a decorative disc on the wall answers the round forms of the lights and the vase. Panoramic windows with horizontal blinds keep the kitchen light all morning, continuing the way daylight moves through the home.

The bedroom was given the dawn: glazing on three sides gives its window a panoramic view of the waking city. A bed with a curved upholstered headboard in graphite fabric holds the centre of the composition, and a terracotta knitted throw and striped cushions add a warm accent against the grey.

Heavy curtains and roller blinds control the morning light, a floor lamp by the armchair creates a reading corner, and a dressing table with a round lit mirror and a low bench makes a separate zone by the window. Warm wall-to-wall carpet completes the sense of a private, quiet space.

The son's room has a bolder palette of its own: graphite fronts, a soft upholstered headboard and an abstract painting in orange and black strokes set up a contrast with the restrained living room. An orange quilted cushion and a fur throw bring colour into the overall graphite scheme.

A Harley-Davidson barrel chair as the accent piece and a modular bedside unit turn the room into a space with character: not a child's bedroom in the classic sense but a proper teenager's room, where his hobby is part of the décor rather than hidden away.

The bathroom keeps to the same graphite logic as the rest of the interior: walls and floor are finished in large-format terrazzo that answers the matt black sanitaryware and taps. A glass shower area, a solid timber vanity unit and a deep black basin set up a graphic contrast.

An oval mirror with a backlit edge and a glass-shaded pendant add softness and depth.

The designers' favourite way of placing accents is bespoke décor: it carries the warmth of the human hand and the sense of owning something rare. For this project the studio made three backlit decorative panels with a wave texture; they lead the eye along the corridor towards the private rooms and work as art objects in their own right rather than as wall decoration.

Gallery A is one of the favourite partners of Chief Designer Nadezhda Guseva and CEO Aleksey Gusev: the display is excellent, and being able to look at a piece in person always matters to a client. In this project the Italian Shape leather bench and the round bronze Surface mirror with a head-shaped planter beneath it set the compositional points in the space, and their quality is made to last. A comfortable floor lamp in the bedroom, under which, as in childhood, you can read for hours, completes the selection.