Interior design of apartments and public spaces

Tailored Interiors.
Purposeful Design.

My name is Anna. I am an interior designer from Saint Petersburg with a master’s degree in Interior Design from the Florence Design Academy in Italy. My team of architects, 3D visualisers, engineers and builders works in Dubai, Moscow and Saint Petersburg, in Scandinavian and Modern Art Deco.

Dubai Hills ApartmentDUBAI · 60 SQ M
Country house, PargolovoST PETERSBURG · 200 SQ M
Children’s educational centreMOSCOW · 1,000 SQ M
The Cartel RoomHELSINKI · 75 SQ M
Dubai penthouse dining room by Anna Arsentyeva: smoked glass pendants over a black ribbed table, late light through timber blinds
Dining room / Modern Art Deco Private apartment

Selected works

From sixty square metres to a thousand.

Twenty-one private apartments and houses, and four public spaces: a restaurant, a children’s educational centre in Moscow, an office for an international logistics company, and a cocktail bar in Helsinki. Most of the work has been built in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, and now in Dubai.

Living room of the Pargolovo country house by Anna Arsentyeva: crystal chandelier, built-in oak shelving either side of the fireplace, herringbone floor

Country house, Pargolovo

Private
Pargolovo, Saint Petersburg200 sq mFull design projectAuthor’s supervision

The largest private project on our list. Planning solution first, then room by room visualisation, then the working documentation the builders actually held on site.

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Living room of the Dubai Hills apartment by Anna Arsentyeva: glazed steel-framed partition to the bedroom, boucle chaise, arc floor lamp, balcony over Dubai Hills

Dubai Hills Apartment

Private
Dubai Hills60 sq mFull design project

Sixty square metres, so the planning solution carries everything. Get storage and circulation right in a flat this size and the rest of the design has room to breathe.

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Children’s educational centre

Public
Moscow1,000 sq mPublic spaceFull design project

A thousand square metres for children. Public work under the same rule as the apartments: it has to survive the people who use it every day, and still be somewhere they want to be.

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The Cartel Room

Public
Helsinki75 sq mCocktail bar

A small cocktail bar in Helsinki. Seventy-five square metres hold atmosphere better than a large room does, provided the lighting is drawn properly rather than added at the end.

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Dubai Marina

Private
Dubai Marina110 sq mFull design project

Visualised room by room with the finishes and the furniture already chosen, so the client saw the finished apartment before the first order was placed.

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Colour

Five patches on the wall, and a week of looking at them.

Finishing materials are chosen in the room they will live in, never from a fan deck. We brush the candidates onto the wall at full size, leave them up, and look at them in daylight and again under the lamps before the visualisation is signed off and anything is ordered.

Five beige and cream paint benchmarks brushed onto a white gypsum wall on site, with tins and brushes on the oak floor below
Finish benchmarks brushed on site Read in daylight and under lamps

Clay Ground

#B09C82 · No. 01

Feature walls, where a room needs weight against large glazing.

LRV 34

Quarry Putty

#B4A28D · No. 02

Joinery carcasses, and the inside faces of deep reveals.

LRV 37

Studio Greige

#B8AA97 · No. 03

Our default living room wall. Neutral by day, warm under lamps.

LRV 41

Sand Wash

#E3D6BD · No. 04

Children’s rooms and bedrooms, where the light has to bounce.

LRV 68

Gypsum Cream

#F7E5CC · No. 05

Trim, doors, and ceilings in north facing rooms.

LRV 80

Matt emulsion throughout. The ceiling goes one step lighter than the wall it meets, never plain white, so the plane above a room never reads as a lid.

House styles

ScandinavianPale timber, quiet walls, very little ornament, and daylight treated as the main material in the room.

Modern Art DecoDeeper tones, brass and glass, symmetry held firmly, and one strong gesture allowed per room.

How we work

Four stages, and we stay on site to the end.

We hold the project from the first collage to the last delivery of materials. The team is architects, 3D visualisers, engineers and builders, so the drawings and the build answer to the same people.

01

Preliminary sketch

The stylistic direction of the interior is settled, the technical task is prepared, and we produce planning decisions and collages for every room in the property.

Plans & collages
02

Project visualisation

Detailed visualisation of each room. 3D images built with the interior elements and finishing materials already selected, so what you approve is what gets ordered.

3D images
03

Working documentation

The full set for an interior design project: specifications, and the planning solution with the furniture on it, drawn so a builder can work straight from the sheet.

Specifications
04

Author’s supervision

We monitor the build against the project plan. Our designer and engineer carry out quality control on a regular basis, and we supervise the project and the purchase of materials.

On site

Project blueprints

Drawings a builder can work from.

A design becomes buildable in the working documentation. This is the part clients rarely see and contractors judge you on, so we draw it properly: the planning solution, the furniture on it, and a specification for every room.

Planning solution

Walls, openings, circulation

Where the walls go and how you move between them, agreed before a single finish is discussed. In a small apartment this stage decides everything that follows.

Furniture plan

Every piece drawn to size

Each item set out at its real dimensions on the plan, so a family can see what fits, what blocks a door, and what has to be made rather than bought.

Specifications

Room by room schedules

Finishes, fittings and lighting listed room by room, with the materials we then purchase and check on delivery as part of author’s supervision.

Order a project

Tell us about the space.

Where it is, how big it is, and who is going to live in it. We come back with how we would run the project, stage by stage.