Архитекторы Алексей Розенберг и Пётр Костёлов

A small smoking room of a private parlor was designed as a stage setting. However, this environment possesses certain architectural qualities, which change the whole space. For example, the depth of bookshelves grows from bottom to top, reaching its maximum at the junction between the wall and ceiling, while the shelves attached to the ceiling, on the contrary, decrease their depth from the wall to the window. As a result, the library space gets a convex non-rectilinear appearance, as if one looks at it through a fisheye lens. The ideas of absurdity, embedded in this decorative solution (with the shelves hanging from the ceiling and the books falling out of them and hovering in the air) are perceived on a deeper more subtle level, almost subconsciously. The library stairs draw a spatial diagonal, sprouting up right in front of the eyes of an astonished viewer. Speaking about the literature component of the “library”, we may say that it embodies the archetypal image of an old house or, in other words, a haunt- ed house, which drifts from books to cinematography and back.