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Classicism Meets Minimalism in a Gracious St Petersburg Studio

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Architect and interior designer Natalia Ozerova uses thick slabs of bas relief work to shape an elegant space.

Lovely bas relief work in faux stone is used throughout each room.

The extremely modulated colour palette surrounding the ecru bas relief has a calming effect.

The same severely restricted colour palette is used throughout.

A mirror doubles the tiny space in a continuation of the ecru and blue-gray of the bedroom.

The St Petersburg apartment gracefully blends classicism and minimalism.

Even in a tiny toilet, classicism breathes its sense of perspective.

Miraculously a gracious space is created from a very tiny apartment.

The vertical lines of a bookcase emphasise the apartment’s one gracious proportion in the entry.

There is barely room for a fireplace.

Yet as you step out of the bedroom, a calming sight greets you.

And turning and looking back at the bedroom wall, a shiny black TV and classical sculpture is flanked on each side by a pair of mirrored doors that reflect the few windows, with no hint of the bedroom beyond.

Blending modernity and a classical aesthetic, even the stark black of TV screens acquires an ancient elegance!