Perhaps the most interesting items madeyoung Russian designers, were shown at this exhibition. Visitors learned about their creators and were imbued with the spirit of national design. And the things are truly remarkable. The second exhibition “Object. Contemporary Russian Design” was held at the M. N. Ermolova House-Museum with the information support of Roomble. The 18th century mansion was filled with things invented and made by people who were not yet thirty years old. Most of the participants have European exhibitions, publications in prestigious editions, and some even have their own production. Many, like the authors of the idea, the curators of the exhibition Ekaterina Tulupova, Olesya Sitnikova, after studying in Milan, London, Madrid, returned to work in Russia. What do these young and daring offer the world? Let's see together.
1. Pillow Hill
St. Petersburg designer Anna Druzhinina is one ofparticipants of the Izba project, which impressed the sophisticated public of Milan's iSaloni in April of this year, made an original thing. Thanks to the traditional decoration of a Russian village bed - a pile of pillows, like matryoshka dolls, stacked small and small and sewn together - Anna Druzhinina created an original pouf-slide Pillow hill.
2. Table
Ero stand table of the owner of MoscowLeonid Lozbenko's LLLooch company changes the idea of the usual texture of objects. The tabletop made of natural Greek marble Skyros is so thin (4 mm) that it resembles a gramophone record crowning a whimsically broken stainless steel leg. Beauty here not only saves the world, but also serves as a distraction for the USB port built into the table leg for charging any gadgets. A graduate of London's Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Leonid was unable to implement his ideas in third-party companies, so he had to open his own. The union of like-minded people LLLooch successfully "leads" its items from the idea to the consumer, combining style, intelligence and convenience in their gizmos. Leonid Lozbenko, founder of LLLooch: - To achieve a good result in mass production, you need to set absolutely clear goals and follow the plan. Business planning and working with people take up 80 percent of my time. The remaining hours are given to creativity and the actual creation of objects… We do not try to make things in the Russian folk style in any way. There is even a crossed-out matryoshka doll painted on our courier car. I believe that Russia has something to show besides kokoshniks. And the national style in objects manifests itself by itself. Many of our things, for example, are made of Russian birch. LLLooch.ru
3. Lamp
The Light Bean pendant lamp was created byMoscow designer Katya Kopytina thanks to the idea of making the lamp an equal part of the design. She wanted something simple, as clear as possible of details, but with character. Indeed, the bean lamp seems to roll out of an oak socket, willingly demonstrating itself to the world and in no way giving away the presence of a ventilation system inside, which does not allow the socket to heat up. Having received a Master RSP degree from the Milan Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) and having completed an internship in famous European companies, Katya professes the idea as the basis of design. By her own admission, she endlessly modifies everything that surrounds her in her head: trash cans on the streets, benches, bus stops, washing machines or tin cans - everything should be amenable to comprehension and ultimately become objects of design, forming a culture. Light Bean quickly found recognition among design experts and the public. And despite its laconism, it has taken root well in the capital's interiors. Katya Kopytina, designer: — I constantly think about how everything around could be improved: from a garbage dump to entire neighborhoods. It’s not so much about industrial design as about the logic of life, everyday life, and then thoughts. The problem is that the overall level of design grows along with the crowd. That’s why everything moves slowly. But now the number of people who understand the value of this topic is growing rapidly. Design in the broad sense of the word is not just pretty lamps and unusual furniture. Design is planning, understanding. katerinakopytina.com
4. Dreamer
Vladimir Ivanov from Kemerovo believes thatThe designer's main task is to surprise, to offer people something different from what they see in stores. And he succeeds in this quite well. Milan, Florence and Moscow continue to be surprised and praise his works, such as, for example, the Dream two chair with an unexpected centering of the lamp, made for the cafe "Dreamer", and this chair seems to call to tear yourself away from the seat and rush up the stairs. For the exhibition "Object" Vladimir brought a passe-partout - an ordinary at first glance wooden panel that hides an invisible magnet. With the help of other magnets, you can scatter any selfies, vacation photo reports or valuable instructions to loved ones on the surface of the passe-partout. Elegant simplicity without fuss, but with a twist makes it related to IKEA, and Vladimir thinks that it would be cool to become the first Russian to sign a contract with them.
5. Rocking chair
Crowned, despite his youth,Internationally recognized and awarded St. Petersburg designer Yaroslav Misonzhnikov, the creator of the Izba project, enriched it with two items. One of them is a funny wooden children's rocking chair, which "grew" from a musical rattle.
6. Single candlestick
The second item from Yaroslav in the project isa single candlestick, where the position of the candle stub can be adjusted using a scale and a holder. A glorious mix of Slavophilism and oriental graphics came out. Only recently Yaroslav took part in the London exhibition "Born in the USSR", adding a collective publication in Wallpaper magazine to the solid "printed" list. However, his main dream remains the idea of making a porcelain collection for the St. Petersburg Imperial Factory. Yaroslav is a ceramist by his first education. And a patriot of St. Petersburg, of course.
7. Mermaid & Mermaid
Another character of the Izba project, soThe Milanese public's favorite is the fabric print "Mermaid & Rusal" by Moscow fabric designer Sveta Gerasimova. It refers us to Pushkin's Lukomorye, the Mitki, a mixture of Russian epic poetry and naive, simple-minded art.
8. Vool
Wooden stand for one of the laptopsfounders of the St. Petersburg studio Plan-S23 (furniture design, interior items) Alexey Galkin caresses the eye with the smoothness and completeness of forms, and it is composed of a fairly large number of parts, carved with the help of a computer program. Connected together, they are a patented product and give an excellent effect, providing a comfortable height and distance from the eyes to the window to the Internet.
9. Deltas
Furniture company Field & Rage creates inMoscow region furniture and interior items are exclusively handmade. Such are the Delta mirrors in a triangular oak frame. The slightly tinted mirror surface gives a nostalgic smoky-diffused picture, and as a bonus - a light tan at any time of the year. Triangles are easily composed into any collages, expanding the possibilities of mirror decor to infinity.
10. Cheburashka
Ceramic tableware "Cheburashka" from a graduateIstituto Europeo di Design in Madrid Lera Moiseyeva, her co-author Luca Nichetto and the manufacturer (Suzdal workshop "Dymov Keramika") have already managed to visit Milan Design Week 2014 in April. So now they know about the old Russian method of making black-glazed ceramics - it is molded on a potter's wheel, polished to a shine with a stone and fired twice in a kiln. The dishes not only let air through and perfectly preserve the product, but are also very friendly - the items interact combinatorially, easily fitting into each other. By the way, the name itself - cheburashka - in Rus' meant "fishing float".
The very principle of placing innovative objectsagainst the backdrop of the interior of a noble nest justifies the main idea of the exhibition. Design is the relationship between a person and an object. When they are personal, sincere and meaningful, such objects are organic both in a feast and in the world. Ekaterina Tulupova, curator and author of the idea of the exhibition "Object", co-owner of the design studio "Arch. Object": - The key style in interior design of the last quarter of the century is eclecticism and fusion, a mixture of old and new. The concept of the exhibition - contemporary design in historical interiors - was born from the understanding that a real house is formed gradually, carrying a connection between generations and times. Modern objects in the memorial house-museum, on the one hand, look unexpected, and on the other hand, they harmoniously combine with antique furniture. arch-predmet.com Olesya Sitnikova, co-author of the idea, curator of the exhibition "Object", co-owner of the design studio "Arch. Object": - The time of crisis is very productive for design. Milan became a trendsetter in world design after the Second World War. At such moments, it is important to create something new, as they say, from scratch, based on the conditions of a meager start, to use old materials in a new way or use new economical materials, in a word, to optimize production as much as possible. True design is born from a lack, not from an excess. This exhibition, which we hope will become traditional, was born partly as a reaction to the stress of studying in Milan. We looked around and decided - it's time to unite and declare: Russian designers exist. Yes! They exist! arch-predmet.com
