Usually, Olga Budennaya and Roman Leonidov – an architectural as well as a family duo – design houses in a modernist style. For their friends, however, they made an exception. The clients of this house are very open-minded people, who are into fine arts and theater. The mistress of the house is also a very creative person in love with Art Nouveau. The style of the house was chosen at the client’s request; she took part in the design process as the decorating coauthor, and, taking into account all of these constructive and creative solutions, the architects finally decided to “play Art Nouveau”, and this is how they defined their creative task. The house does not have any verbatim quotes in it, but it does have a lot of recognizable motifs: arched windows, stained glass windows with characteristic “flattened” tops, a bent roof, and decorative ceramic elements of the facade. Another interesting fact is that alongside the figured stained glass windows the architects also use simple rectangular windows with grid glazing pattern in the spirit of modernist factory architecture. A combination of red brick and white stucco details is not the most frequent technique to be encountered in historical Art Nouveau buildings, yet it does pop up here and there in Riga and Kharkov; or in Shekhtel Mansion in the Ermolaevsky Lane. In other words, when the architects were creating the image for the new house, Art Nouveau was not a dogma for them, but rather a starting point.