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Plastika apartment dining area framed by a pale kitchen and sculptural pendant light

Name of the project

Plastika

Main character

Private client

Setting

Saint Petersburg

Plastika

Overview

Plastika is an interior built on a subtle balance of form, light, and material. Broad calm planes, soft lines, and precise architectural accents define the space. A pale palette, warm timber, restrained contrasts, and the fluid geometry of the furniture create an environment that feels coherent, quiet, and natural.

The project is driven not by decorative density, but by the expressive power of form. The main living area relies on substantial volumes, a clean composition, and one continuous spatial gesture that connects the rooms in a shared rhythm. The result is restrained without becoming neutral: character emerges through proportion, silhouette, tactile materials, and precision of line.

  1. Dining table and pale kitchen beneath a dark sculptural pendant
  2. Pale timber kitchen volume and dining group in the open living area
  3. Soft modular sofa beneath a linear pendant in the light-filled living room
  4. Living room with white volumes, dark timber storage, and warm oak flooring
  5. Bedroom with a low grey bed and a dark timber headboard wall
  6. Quiet bedroom corner with a slim mirror, stool, and full-height glazing
  7. Side view of the bedroom with pale walls and integrated dark timber joinery
  8. Bedroom threshold with a lightweight white chair and dark wardrobe wall
  9. Walk-in wardrobe concealed behind black slatted sliding screens
  10. Illuminated dark timber wardrobe with carefully organised storage
  11. Minimal vanity with a floating black stone basin and angular mirror
  12. Amber glass bath set against a softly textured bathroom wall
  13. Freestanding amber bath centred beneath a linear wall light
  14. Black stone vanity and angular mirror beside the amber bath
  15. Amber bath and wall-mounted fixtures in the pale bathroom

In the private rooms, this language becomes softer and quieter. The space is cleared of distraction, shifting attention towards atmosphere, light, and composure. Even the more contrasting elements are introduced not as effects, but as measured accents that preserve the whole.

The material palette is concise and precise: engineered timber flooring, high-durability wall paint, microcement in the bathrooms, integrated volumes, and isolated natural textures. Engineering is embedded within the architecture. The apartment has independent supply-and-extract ventilation, ducted air conditioning, and a unified control system. Lighting is local and integrated, with low-glare sources. When required, the kitchen can be closed completely behind pocketing pivot-slide fronts.

Here, plasticity is not a stylistic device, but an inner quality of the space — form does not seek attention; it creates a calm, exact, and natural setting for life.

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The name Zariza

Engraving of historic Tsaritsyn by Adam Olearius, 1636

In 1663, a book by Adam Olearius, a German scholar and secretary to the Holstein embassy to Russia and Persia, included a plate with six engraved views of Russian cities.

Tetus, Samara, Soratof, Zariza, Tzornogar, Kusmamedianski. Olearius passed Tsaritsyn on 6 September 1636.

Partners and clients sometimes jokingly associate our name with royalty. We do not mind, although for us it is rooted above all in the history of a place.

The city’s name is associated with the Tsaritsa River. One explanation traces it to the Turkic “sary-su”, meaning “yellow river”; another links it to “yellow sand”.

The fortress in the engraving stands at a meeting of currents: goods and embassies travelled along the river, and routes crossed here. This image resonates with us. Design and implementation also form a system of many factors, whose parts need to work together.

The studio’s name is tied to the history of Tsaritsyn, a city at the confluence of the Volga and Tsaritsa rivers. Our first office opened here, near the Architecture University. The studio began work on 21 December 2012, the day a 5,125-year cycle of the Maya calendar came to a close.

“Art” was added later, when we registered the domain. The name retains our connection to our place of origin, while the studio’s work has long reached beyond its geography.

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