The ground floor of the building ¹27 on Bolshaya Morskaya, 27, has been, practically, the deserted space for nearly 2 years, left by its previous owner, the administration of the restaurant "Admiralteisky". The state of facades and general inner space was considered unsatisfactory and demanding the complex cosmetic reconstruction.. the lead-ing idea of the project was defined as creating a sort of the space plenty of atmosphere of the silent contemplation for any visitor who wished to browse through the special romantic associations and mysterious images of the far distant sea voyages.

      The interior of the restaurant is developed around the bar of the ship form, which composes three halls of the restaurant into the one existence. The bar desk is composed, therefore, according to the certain laws of the shipment mastering in a shape of the sailing vessel of the Columbus time. All decorative elements of the interior, as the sail itself, and others widespread over the restaurant, are composed of oak, pine-tree with the effect of aging, then of brass, bronze (sculpture elements), hempen ropes, sailcloth. The sails rolled up under the ceiling in the large hall are fastened on the yards passing from the masts of the sailer through the front wall ending by the special brackets with lanterns on the street facade of the restaurant. The floor is composed of travertine repeating the lines of the ship board in the shape of radial arcs leading apart to the corners of the hall. The large hall and the neighboring cloakroom are separated by the partition with a big aquarium window and a seamaid in the shape of a caryatid in the embrasure between the halls. In the same embrasure between the cloakroom and the billiard hall one can observe the after-part of the ship with the bowsprit towering above the passage. Over all the tree halls for visitors one can find the delicately spread tables with individual lightning, and in the large hall the dinner places are composed in the very front wall and in the window niches either.

      The whole interior is projected in a way that people sitting in the halls around the sailer could deliberately contemplate garcons-sailors or girls-sailors scurrying in the halls or the passers-by outdoors. In the "Christofor" every visitor is regarded not as a tired participant, but only the deliberate spectator of the show performed around him. He is bearing in mind his own world of emotions and associations that he carries from outdoors into the mysteriously soft atmosphere of the restaurant.