Article source: Nowadays Office

A double-leveled café and bar ‘Iskra’ (‘Sparkle’), serving grilled chicken and a variety of sparkling wines, is located in one of the most authentic neighbourhoods in Moscow. Kitai-Gorod is a part of the old city, once hidden behind the vallum that adjoined the Kremlin. Pokrovka 38A is a classicist building constructed in the late XVIII century that used to be the private residence of a noble Moscow family. After the building was nationalised by the Soviet government, a light and spacious bedroom with a vaulted ceiling — taking up 35 sq m of the ground floor — was turned into a local dairy shop. This space is now Iskra’s upper level café with a secret bar (ironically called ‘Public Bar’) occupying the basement beneath.

Image Courtesy © Yuri Palmin

• Architects: Nowadays Office
• Project: ISKRA cafe
• Location: 38A Pokrovka str., Moscow, Russian Federation
• Photography: Yuri Palmin
• Design: Nowadays Office
• Design Team: Ksenia Vasilieva, Natalia Mastalerzh, Ilona Povilenayte, Daria Sutormina, Nata Tatunashvili
• Area: 120 m2
• Year: 2015

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