A room cut from stone at Poison Drop in Aviapark
How do you give fine jewelry a department of its own inside a shop where gold, silver and costume jewelry had previously shared the same style of counter? For their 2022 project at Moscow’s Aviapark, the architects at Sinitsa chose a material that could run almost anywhere.
A stone surface that turns corners
Daria Kirpichnikova and Anastasia Kolchina specified stone veneer, a thin layer of real stone applied over another surface. They could use it on the floor as well as the walls and furniture. In the photographs, a counter seems to grow out of the rock behind it. The designers likened the effect to the caves where treasure lies hidden in fairy tales.
The entrance worked on a different scale. A large screen carried a slow-moving image that could be seen from the mall. Inside, a closer look revealed the grain in the stone around each piece of jewelry. See the photographs and the architects’ account of the project.
Visiting Aviapark
Moscow, 4 Khodynsky Boulevard, ground floor.
View on map+7 495 255-15-33 ext. 302
Poison Drop lists its hours as 10:00 to 22:00 Sunday to Thursday and 10:00 to 23:00 on Friday and Saturday.
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