Artistic and constructive features of designing fireplaces in a residential interior

The article examines the stylistic and compositional features of fireplace design, identifies their artistic and constructive features in the context of designing the entire interior as a whole. The purpose of the study is to consider the fireplace as a complex functional and artistic object of the interior, which, in addition to its applied function, performs a decorative function and is a dominant stylistic element of the interior. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that the fireplace is considered not only as a kind of decorative and applied art, but also as an object of design creativity, in close connection with all the elements and parameters of the interior, technological and stylistic, taking into account the scale, configuration and proportions of the room. As a result of the study, a classification of all possible designs and stylistic features of fireplaces was carried out, the main compositional schemes acceptable for the residential interior were established, and their technological features were revealed. This is done for the first time in the theory of design and decorative art.