Living Room is a 2,150 sqft apartment on the second floor of a 46-unit boutique residence in the historic center of Moscow, Russia, with the domes of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour visible through its windows, was designed by Tim Veresnovsky Studio for a client who lives alone, rarely cooks, and still asked for a bedroom kept ready for his children’s holiday visits.

The apartment splits into two wings around a central hall. The main section holds the living and dining rooms, with a compact kitchen in patinated stainless steel from Arclinea set apart from the dining area rather than opened into it, a layout the owner preferred given how little he uses it. The left wing holds the master and guest bedrooms.

A longtime traveler drawn to French interiors, the client wanted rooms that read as historically grounded without settling into pastiche. The studio answered with materials that argue with each other across eras. A hand-tiled ceramic fireplace sits within reach of the kitchen’s raw patinated steel. Versailles parquet runs underfoot in the living room, below a plaster ceiling with braided detailing and walls finished in warm white. A rare 1950s Michel Ducaroy 459 chair, sourced through Demisch Danant, sits against custom sofas upholstered in Pierre Frey’s Georges Chamois fabric and a green Yeti wool.

The master bedroom is finished almost entirely in brown, from a chocolate silk wallpaper by Dedar to a custom bed upholstered in gray pleated leather from Holland and Sherry, under a dark wood-paneled ceiling that closes the room in rather than opening it up. Its bathroom takes the opposite approach, clad floor to ceiling in veined Tufo marble left as the only material in the space.

That restraint breaks in the children’s bedroom, painted in a saturated teal plaster with no equivalent elsewhere in the apartment. A ceramic wall panel of overlapping eyes hangs above the bed, and raffia-fringed lamps from LGS Studio sit on the nightstands. The room emerged during the design process rather than from a specific brief, one of several decisions the client left to the studio once the initial sketches had won his trust.