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It Took Me One Year To Make Unimaginable Bar With My Own Hands
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It Took Me One Year To Make Unimaginable Bar With My Own Hands

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I’m Alexey Steshak and everybody says that I’m a mad decorator. I believe them because I create a really WOW projects with my own hands.

Today I’m going to show you my new project – Black Bar, Altai Republic, Russia.

It took me one year to make it, because I did everything with my own hands. I worked in different areas of art: mosaic, interior design, modelling, furniture design, woodwork, metalwork and others. I created not only the interior, but the bar story too.

We were collecting the legends about this wonderful place little by little, like a mosaic of many people`s memories, and then turned them into this story.

Once upon a time there was a small wood-smelting plant that experienced a great success and was in its heyday when an unexpected catastrophe destroyed it in a few hours. But let`s start from the beginning…
Our story began when Professor Melt, after 25 years of academic pursuits, invented a wood-melting method in 1876, which got him to the Nobel Prize later.

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On the World Science Festival in Paris, where Melt gave a demonstration of his invention, he met a wealthy entrepreneur Gilbert Black.

Black was so impressed by this invention that he immediately suggested Melt to establish a wood-smelting plant.
After a few months of preparations in a small and cozy brick building located in a forest of incredible beauty the venture, that was the only one of its kind, was opened.
The main melt department was fenced off from the rest of the premises by a firm wall behind which big smelt furnaces stood (we turned them into four comfortable sofas).

In the melt department, a smelter-robot supervised the process, because the temperature inside was extremely high and unbearable for a human. Even the ceiling melted and became a part of a mirror frame.

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The second room was a place where orders were taken and where employees worked. There were some desks and a few palm trees; ventilators cooled the air and a gramophone, still very rare at that time, played the music.

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A small storeroom, where chemical elements used for a unique melting mixture were kept, we turned into a men’s room.

Another storeroom was located in the open air and eventually became home for many wild plants with beautiful flowers. Now this is ladies’ room.

In the sink you can see a mixer-robot prototype. We didn’t manage to restore it in its original volume as it was damage greatly by the explosion, but tried to reproduce its exterior basing on the sketches.

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The catastrophe happened late at night so no one was injured. The main bleed air system burnt out because of incorrectly made mixture and this led to the explosion. The firm wall was blown off like it was a feather. The stream of burning hot air burst into the corridor, melting the door and sealing the entrance to the plant forever.

The mixer-robot became a pile of melted metal.
After numerous attempts to open the door, the plant was closed. And many decades later to unseal the premises and find out what had happened here years ago.

We were moving step by step and were founding new mysteries and their solutions.
We found the smelter-robot and linked it up to the life-support system, and if you enter a startup codes, you will have a chance to see how brilliant Professor Melt`s invention was.

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We also found lots of miraculously spared pictures and carefully hung them on the walls of the bar.

The most unique one is the portrait of an unknown woman. As far as we managed to find out from different sources, this is the portrait of Professor`s sweetheart. Unfortunately, her name is seems to be lost in time.

We got into the spirit of this wonderful plant, came to love it and told you its story so that everybody feel the incredible human aspiration to discovery and experiment.

Some pictures of the process. Here’s the handmade ceiling

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Lamps

Process of making wooden mirror frame

Creating birds from plaster

And this was the result

Portrait from ceramic mosaic

Building a robot sink

And here it is!

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Alexey Steshak

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My name is Alexey Steshak. I'm an artist / decorator / interior designer. I'm a designer who thinks up a project and completely accomplishes it by his own hands. I work in different areas of art: mosaic, interior design, modelling, furniture design and others. All my projects are unconventional approach for interior design. I create my interiors as a wonderful, unusual places for living and enjoyment.

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Alexey Steshak

Alexey Steshak

Author, Community member

My name is Alexey Steshak. I'm an artist / decorator / interior designer. I'm a designer who thinks up a project and completely accomplishes it by his own hands. I work in different areas of art: mosaic, interior design, modelling, furniture design and others. All my projects are unconventional approach for interior design. I create my interiors as a wonderful, unusual places for living and enjoyment.

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John L
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now that you have completed this magnificent bar, when do you plan on opening for business, so everyone can come and admire your artistic ingenuity? Just think of the wonderful experiences so many could live.

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John L
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7 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now that you have completed this magnificent bar, when do you plan on opening for business, so everyone can come and admire your artistic ingenuity? Just think of the wonderful experiences so many could live.

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