Style loft (translated from English - "top floor", attic, attic, pigeon ») was born in New York, Manhattan, closer to the middle of the last century. In the former industrial buildings on the attic floors of the houses began to appear artistic and photo studios and even apartments. Naturally, the spaces were large, unconfined, without a hint of comfort, often with bare brick walls. Soon this kind of housing acquired a stylish status, not only among hipsters and bohemians, but also among the wealthy middle class people. Over time, this style was generally considered elite.
A characteristic spacious living room in the style of Loft. Brick wall, ventilation pipes remain in their original form.
Loft style and high-tech in one bottle. Many, many, many-sided fixtures.
House in an abandoned building of a textile factory. One hundred percent loft style.
Cozy bright living room in loft style. Harmonious combination of masonry brick walls and massive beams.
Interior of a modern house with a decor of a facade wall made of brickwork.
Soft loft style in interior design of a large room. Chandeliers from the designer are a good addition.
In the 70s, this very modern style successfully migrated to Europe. We began to spread it just over 10 years ago.
In this article, read:
- 1 Features of the "mansard" style
- 2 Former and current lofters
- 3 Loftomania in Russia
- 4 Such a many-sided loft style. Video
- 5 Loft style gallery-everything is possible
Features of the "mansard" style
Initially, in studios without partitions and doors, young artists, photographers, poor filmmakers settled. The whole space was common, everyone was in sight. Here things were collected of absolutely different styles and different times. The interior was factory walls, rusty pipes, huge unoccupied windows. Many of these features are inherent in the loft today. Although he became very "sleek", and often - and completely glamorous. In general, it turned into a "beautiful loft."
The loft-style apartment has a minimum of partitions. It is difficult to find a secluded place in it - in the words of the famous American Kurt Vonnegut, "the burrows are wide open". But in this housing a lot of air and light. This is the fundamental principle when creating a room in the "mansard" style. Ceilings should be high, and the windows from the floor itself.
The loft style variant. High ceilings, spacious windows.
Style loft in the interior design of the kitchen and dining area.
A little imagination and the studio room acquires features loft style.
The character of the loft style house chooses the owner himself, or vice versa. Portrait of the owner at the wall.
prevails style loft, implied Empire, modern and just things from the flea market. For the loft style, everything is possible.
Loft style and country twin brothers.
Interior in the loft style necessarily assumes the presence of at least some areas with natural texture of the coatings. It can be a brick wall or a wooden floor. If in the converted industrial buildings such elements were natural, today this is achieved using, for example, a decorative brick or laminate for antique oak. And there are some amazing examples. Swedish designer Karen Mats created a design provocation in the interior of a small apartment.
A tastefully decorated loft-style room always has its owner.
Bar area loft in a spacious studio. The spacious studios are designed for the attic style. Cozy bar area.
A successful combination of classic colors-white, red, black in the interior of the bedroom loft style.
A memorable, not boring interior of the living room in loft style. New friends of the owner of the house will be surprised by a mixture of styles: avant-garde armchair, antediluvian deshovkie sofas, a kitchen from the south of France, a luxurious antique chandelier out of place. And all together looks.
The interior of the room is loft style, or my bedroom is in the baggage car.
Twenty to eighty-modern and loft. Modest studio for fun evening parties.
Zoning space spaces in the style of the loft is not done with piers, arches or columns, but due to the different colors and textures of the floor and wall covering in different parts of the apartment.
The style of the loft in the interior implies the complete absence of any curtains or curtains on the windows.
If it can be tolerated in the daytime, then in the evening, when artificial lighting is switched on, this creates certain inconveniences.
Designers believed that it was impossible to create a loft in a small apartment. Indeed, originally this style arose precisely in the large spaces left by the tenants of the factories. But today the loft in the interior of a small apartment is as possible as in a multi-hundred-meter. Today in Moscow and other Russian cities offer studio apartments in this style area of 35 sq. M (housing for a bachelor).
Former and current lofters
In the period when the youngest design style was born, creative people, people of art gathered in the studios. In the vast majority it was the youth who wanted to breathe in the air of freedom, to reveal themselves in their work. One of them was Andy Warhol - a famous American designer, artist, film producer and writer (1928 - 1987).
Soon the studios turned into galleries, where the most fashionable artists exhibited their works. Also in these premises began to rent a square for workshops far from poor, fashionable and untwisted photographers and artists.
So the refuge of freedom-loving and creative young people has turned into a home for prosperous and eager (and rather vykendrezhu) rich representatives of bohemia or business.
The design of an apartment in the loft style still involves many art paintings on the walls. It is desirable that this was the work of fashionable artists of the twentieth century. Ideas for theaters and concerts of the past will fit in the interior of the studio apartment, but better than the century before last, a collection of beer cans or cigarette packs of the last century and other vintage pieces.
In modern apartments, the interior of which is decorated in the "mansard" style, there is absolutely everything that is necessary for a beautiful and comfortable life.
Loftomania in Russia
A little less, maybe more than 10 years ago, the newest design style, for 40 years already conquered Europe and even reached the most avant-garde Asian countries, finally reached us. And suddenly, like mushrooms after a warm rain, "loft projects" began to appear. First in Moscow and St. Petersburg, then in other, not so large cities - Krasnodar, Belgorod ... It is often not housing, but public studios where various mass events are held, sports are organized or some shows and exhibitions.
The second life of the old repair shops of the new St. Petersburg.
A sharp contrast of styles animates the interior. Brick wall masonry in a large room is always a winning option if the overall interior has a dull "licked" background.
Amazing harmony of the brickwork of the wall under the era of the early 19th century and furniture in the living room.
The Moscow residential complex The Loft Club offers a variety of housing in this style. Prices are impressive. But where did the open space go - the trump card of style? Where the windows are in the floor without curtains. From the style there were only details. For example, a decorative brick with a small impregnation in the wall covering the kitchen.
Sometimes there are ads: "Rent room in the loft style." Although it is difficult to imagine how you can organize a loft in the interior of a small room.
"Everything flows, everything changes," but the name remains.
