Shekhtel (built by him in 1903.

The search for lost integrity was proclaimed as the main point of creative programs of all directions in architecture, decorative art and design of the late XIX — early XX centuries, which contrasted themselves with bourgeois eclectic. At first, when such searches were inspired by the artistic ideas of romanticism, and later — “decadence”, the category of unity did not try to take into account in large spatial systems — it contacted the sphere of individual being and was looking for within the building and its property filling. Such islands of harmony in the chaotic world were created according to the method “from the inside — outside”, based on streamlining the internal factors of the organization of the object. Its integrity was ensured to a large extent due to neglect of the connections in the system that this object included (city ensemble). The building turned out to be opposed to its environment and the city as a whole. In Russia at the beginning of the 20th century, a similar closed harmony was created in the mansions of very wealthy customers architect F. Shekhtel (built by him in 1903. Ryabushinsky mansion in Moscow on Malaya Nikitskaya — now the house -museum a. M. Gorky — was perhaps the brightest among buildings of this type within the entire international Art Nouveau style).