A room with a bed, a couch, and a book shelf.

April 21, 2026

Words: Rebecca Dalzell

Photography: Vera Deblik

Inside A Contemporary Duplex Drenched In Orange Hues

Rustem Urazmetov, founder of Moscow architecture studio UR  Bureau, likes to experiment. He’s developed a style he calls “digital aesthetics” that uses the language of pixels, gradients, glyphs, and RGB color models to create bold  interiors. “It’s not for everyone,” Urazmetov admits. “99 percent  of people prefer something more natural. My concepts are for those who want something new.”

Count a local couple among that  1 percent. Two dentists with three sons and a daughter, they had pre­viously hired UR for their house and their dental clinic. When the family moved to a 2,500-square-foot duplex apartment, the pair tapped Urazmetov again to create a home with his signature flair but this time warm, comfortable.

UR Bureau Creates A Home With The Firm’s Signature Flair

A living room with a purple couch and green pillows.
Sacha Lakic’s Bubble sofas meet a Sismic coffee table by Cédric Ragot and custom gradient wallcovering in the living area, backed by the kitchen’s undulating oak-veneered wall, inspired by parametric architecture.
A bathroom with colorful tiles on the walls.
Also pixel-like is the guest bathroom’s ceramic wall and sink mosaics.

The apartment has a U-shape plan with living/dining areas on one side, three children’s bedrooms on the other, and the main suite upstairs. Urazmetov’s usual geometric forms and saturated colors—orange, green, blue, purple—define each space, but softened with fluid lines, natural elements, and custom rugs. In the living area, for example, a sculptural staircase rises above  a greenery-filled planter, its angular balustrade in white stonelike Corian, the treads, risers, and interior balustrade veneered in oak, and the floor planks below it engineered oak.

A living room with a couch and a table.
The daughter’s drawings became the basis for the custom sofa upholstery in her bedroom.
A living room with a purple couch and a white coffee table.
At the entry, flooring is porcelain tile and engineered oak, while the faceted staircase is Corian and oak veneer.

Opposite, a curved wall made of CNC-cut MDF finished in more oak veneer undulates like a thicket of trees. “The idea was that the strict rectangular form of the entrance hall transforms into a flowing shape that finally breaks into pixel-like blocks,” Urazmetov explains. These decorative square and rectangular boxes punctuate the high wall above the kitchen.

A bedroom with a bed and a desk.
In the youngest son’s room, the bed and shelving are custom.
A room with a bed, a couch, and a book shelf.
In the four-bedroom duplex apartment, the client’s two teenage boys share a bedroom with matte enamel–finished, custom MDF shelving exemplifying firm founder Rustem Urazmetov’s “digital aesthetics,” inspired by, among other things, 3D pixels, called voxels.
A bedroom with a bed and a television.
Recalling static, a black-and-white dot pattern upholsters a custom bedframe.

Also resembling pixels are the mosaics in the guest bathroom,  cubic bookshelves in the boys’ bedrooms, and the bulbous living-area sofas in violet and emerald, colors that reappear in the gradient wallcovering behind them. “Large color blocks highlight the main zones  in each room. It’s challenging to  achieve because the same color is applied to different materials,” adds Urazmetov. For instance, orange marks the sleeping areas in the teenage sons’ room: Bedding, shelving, and paint all match. The daughter’s bedroom gets fuchsia, with custom upholstery on the sofa: Urazmetov turned one of her youthful drawings into a swirling zigzag print.

It’s a surprisingly analog reference for the computer-inspired home. Yet Urazmetov is in fact devoted to pen and paper: “It frees me from the limitations of digital tools,” he says. Nearly all his interventions, like the curved oak wall, start with an old-fashioned sketch.

A bathroom with a green wall and a white toilet.
Colors, like the green in the laundry room, which is also a full bathroom, define functional zones.
A bed with a blue headboard and a white rug.
In the main bedroom, the rug, bed, and glossy enamel side table are custom.


FROM FRONT: ROCHE BOBOIS: SOFAS, TABLE (LIVING AREA). ONPRINT: CUSTOM WALLCOVERING. MOSAIC LAND: MOSAICS (BATHROOM). SANTEHNIKA ONLINE: SINKS (BATHROOM, LAUNDRY ROOM). DUPONT: CORIAN (STAIR). VITRA: TOILET (LAUNDRY ROOM). THROUGHOUT LE KOVËR: CUSTOM RUGS. CENTRSVET: LIGHT FIXTURES. PARQUET SALE: ENGINEERED-WOOD FLOORING. LUXURY PLITKA: FLOOR TILE. BENJAMIN MOORE & CO.: PAINT

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