We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Maxim Kashin about their original and creative Interior Space design work. Maxim Kashin is an award-winning architectural designer, that makes our world a better place with their original interior space works.
Maxim Kashin ("MK") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Golden Mile Interior Space. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
MK : Inspired by suprematism, I aimed to create the three dimensional installation, the interior, that is submerging person into the world of endless white space, color and geometry. The main idea of suprematism (from Latin supremes highest) is based on the superiority of pure geometry and colour over the existing perception of forms and space.
MK : Suprematism has three steps of black, colour, and white. The first one – a square and basic shapes: circle, line, cross. Second – complicated suprematist compositions. The third one is white on white. The following works of Kazemir Malevich are clear examples of these steps – Black Square, Supremus№56, The White Cross. In the interior concept I wanted to connect these three stages of the 20th century’s popular Russian avant-garde art movement development by creating the three-dimensional installation, the interior, that is submerging one’s into the world of the endless white space, colour and geometry.
MK : The evaluation of the international jury is very important for me and my team, and this will help us move forward in our direction of interior design.
MK : It took about six months to design from the idea to the release of working drawings.
MK : This is an apartment interior design, that is created in a way providing an immersive experience for the owner and their guests. Its meaning is conceptual and emotional.
MK : This design is made within the framework of my ideology of the new suprematism of the interior. And I plan to develop this direction in the field of interior design.
MK : Avant-garde art - suprematism is close to me in its ideological part, in particular, the influence of geometry and color on the human perception of space. I am also fond of creativity and ideology of ascetic minimalism and French modernism in architecture. At the institute, I studied all these areas in literature, then traveled around France and studied the work and architectural heritage of Le Corbusse.
MK : I like the direction of the avant-garde of the beginning of the last century, in particular - Siprematism. The work of Kazemir Malevich gives me food for creation. I also like the architecture and design of a Japanese architect - TADAO ANDO and the architecture of a Spanish architect - Santiago Calatrava.
MK : Creative people who are willing to invest in the development and future of interior design.
MK : White color, the color of endless space in the supremacist paintings, has evolved in the interior, creating a geometric volume of the whole space. It is self sufficient and also is a background for the interior s main elements geometric dominating sculptures. Thus, this interior is a white background for the linear geometric metal sculptures, consisting of the simple geometry planes, connecting in the three-dimensional monumental compositions.
MK : The "Golden Mile" is by far the largest and most prestigious area of private mansions and elite new buildings. The most expensive real estate in Moscow and the most interesting buildings built by modern architects are located here.
MK : Basically our main tool is 3d modeling. First I draw sketches by hand, I make diagrams of the idea, and then we start building this idea in 3D to see this idea in volume. The link in which we work is AutoCAD+3dsMax, Revit+Lumion.
MK : The style of interior design in which I work belongs to functional minimalism, in my last works I promote the ideology of new Suprematism. This ideology fills the interior space with pure geometry. I am not creating a box with a set of furniture and decor items, but a space where the walls are an interior item, and where every kink and turn is due to a geometric reading of the space.
MK : In this project, we worked with the production and cutting of metal according to 3D models. We made complex patterns, which were cut in production with a hydraulic cutter, and then highly professional welders assembled on-site 3d sculptures from very heavy sheets of steel. The thickness of the metal sheets was about 10 mm and each part weighed at least 100-120 kg, which made installation difficult.
MK : The role of 3D modeling in this project is one of the key ones, it allowed us to realize the developed idea and create a unique interior space.
MK : In this project, I conducted an analytical study of the ideology of Suprematism, the impact of geometry and color on human perception of space.
MK : The creative challenge was in installing the metallic construction in the ceiling of the apartment. Its weight is 250 kg. Firstly we created a model on the computer and then produced the steel sheets, the most challenging was to find a way how to install it securely into the ceiling. We succeeded by going really deep into the floor of an upstairs apartment and attaching it to a reinforced concrete floor.
MK : This project has been published in many European and American social media. And in 2021 this project was placed on the cover of the printed edition of the American magazine - INTERIOR DESIGN Homes, spring 2021.
MK : I gained experience in creating an interior in my own developed style and my own ideology of new suprematism.
