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WHO is she?
Anna Agapova is the creative director of the Oleg Klodt Architecture & Design Studio, where she leads the design department.
Tell us about some of your projects and name the one that you are most proud of.
I have two projects that come to mind. The first is our project at Bor’by Square (http://www.olegklodt.com/portfolio/project/49). This project is very dear to me because it was the first time that I saw the results of my work with my very own eyes. It was the first project of this scale which Oleg and I completed from start to finish. It was a very emotional moment when I went on-site and saw the first interior project that I had completed.
In addition to that, I like the style of the project: a kind of Belgian-French classic, with calm relief on the walls and beautiful oak herring-bone patterned floors. A spiritual and intelligent atmosphere. It’s the kind of interior I could happily live in myself, and I’d like my own home to be like that.
The second project would be our project on Rublevka (http://www.olegklodt.com/portfolio/project/83). The client was a truly amazing individual and someone with whom I’d studied Constructivist architecture. I would say that this project promoted my work and established it on an entirely new level. I discovered a great number of new things as I worked on the Rublevka Residence. It gave me a new vision of interior design, a direction which can be seen in my work today.
Are you currently involved with any project?
Of course! We have 60 staff in our team and we are involved in dozens of projects at the same time. I set the design concept for all of our ongoing projects and supervise the work of all our designers.
Describe your design style.
That’s a very tough question! In today’s world, the definition of style has become somewhat mixed. I don’t like to be pigeon-holed, and I couldn’t say that I work in one specific style or another. All of our interiors are very different and they often allude to historic styles. For example, we really like Art Deco, yet there isn’t one of our interiors which has been done in that style. We create contemporary, sophisticated and intelligent interiors and spaces which are comfortable to live in. Everything is reborn and evolves - styles are changing. Who can say now what name will be given in the future to the work that we are doing right now?
Where are you most creative?
I love to analyze and to discover design items. I’m involved in a continuous and ongoing search for new brands because it’s something I find fascinating. My other passion is light fittings. I create custom-made decorative lighting for our projects.
What does home mean to you?
Everyone has their own personal idea of what home means. It’s a place where nothing disturbs you, where you feel safe and comfortable.
What will be the next big design trend?
The main trend is “technologicity” and it won’t be going away soon. Technology and functionality are now the two key elements. We take styles which have been developed over centuries, and whose emergence has needed a huge amount of time, but time is in desperately short supply in our modern world. We transform styles using the latest technological trends, and this is how design is developing.
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