Co-owner of the sports club "BOBO" Dasha Kosareva in her living room
We are launching a new category “Room”, dedicated place in which a person spends most of his time. It can be absolutely any space: a huge kitchen in which the hero works and rests, an art gallery that has become the second home of its owner, or just a living room in a one-room apartment, which is at the same time an office, a bedroom and a secret place. The space in which a person is able to concentrate on himself and his affairs and not feel himself a participant in the eternal race of a big city. In our first issue, Daria Kosareva, co-owner of the BOBO sports club and author of the recently revived blog It's So Last Season, and her living room in the house on Krasnaya Presnya.
I love my house and this room in particular. I moved here six years ago, and at first everything looked different here. After the repair, for a long time I could not find some kind of optimal environment, so I periodically arranged rearrangements, and I also had to change the furniture a bit. In the end, of course, it still looks completely imperfect, but it seems to me that it turned out quite comfortable.
Here I spend a lot of time: I do not need to go to the office every day, I can follow the affairs in an institution under my control from home. Recently, I decided to revive the fashion blog It's So Last Season, which once ran through the Poster site. Because of this, even more time was spent at the computer, lounging on the couch. This, of course, is not the most useful position for posture, but the purchase of a writing desk is not yet exactly listed in the plans - it simply has nowhere to put it.
Sometimes not all guests have enough seating around the table and some have to sit on the floor, or rather, on the carpet come from my childhood: once it hung on the wall in my grandmother's bedroom. But it seems that no one is offended.
About plants
I can not imagine how people live without home plants. The rooms without greenery and flowers seem soulless and uncomfortable: that is why I can admire Japanese minimalism only as a spectator, it would be rather difficult for me to live in such Spartan conditions. I was lucky with the microclimate of the apartment, the plants grow by themselves, I do not make any effort at all, well, except, of course, regular watering. Another thing is that in Moscow a big problem with beautiful flower pots. I am thinking about how to paint ordinary IKDs on my own, but I cannot get my hands on it.
About furniture
I am a fan of mid-century design: it seems to me that mankind has not yet come up with anything more perfect in interior design. I am trying to introduce elements of this style into a dwelling with the help of my own fragmentary knowledge and visual representations. It turns out how it turns out: for example, I got an elegant dressing table from my grandmother. It unfolds, I keep some stuff and non-essentials cosmetics in it. I bought a roundtable coffee table in Mobeledom, chairs and a sofa are, unfortunately, replicas bought in shops on Artplay.
During the book shopping all the time you have to limit yourself. Storage space is becoming less, especially since books are crowded with a collection of magazines from Apartamento to The Gentlewoman, which generally have to be put on the floor. I decided to focus on art albums and some important editions for me, such as Amy Poehler’s “Yes Please” autobiography — I'm a devoted fan of comedy shows and stand-ups — and you can read everything else electronically.
About the little things
Suppose that on these shelves you cannot keep a large number of books, but with their help it is easy to fit into the interior a lot of nice little things. For example, notebooks with neat grandfather's notes: he was a Sinologist and the pages, dotted with hieroglyphs, look like real works of calligraphic art. Or reminders from the past "fashionable" life: a couple of years I worked as an editor in Vogue and Glamor and went to fashion weeks, since then I keep funny decorated invitations to shows. A lot of little women's stuff left from the grandmother: hairpins for hats, perfume "Red Moscow", a handbag made of crocodile skin.
I drink all the time: either water or tea, or some homemade lemonade. Therefore, the Seletti cup is always on hand. I fell in love with her as soon as I saw. She is a little crazy, as if she was glued together from fragments of two completely different cups.
Since I spend a lot of time at home, comfortable, but at the same time beautiful homewear is one of the most important elements of self-discipline for me. It is important for me that all the little things from a bathrobe to slippers correspond to my ideas of beauty.
