If you still think that perfume, flowers andjewelry is the best gift for every woman, our article will shock you a little. Successful, established young ladies today dream of a screwdriver, a pony, robots and something else. Recently, we interviewed successful, established men and found out that they dream of rather non-trivial and unexpected things that they would like to receive for the New Year. Today we will tell you what successful women who already have almost everything in life that they dreamed of when they were little girls really dream of. And these are far from the things that men usually give!
Katya Ioltukhovskaya wants a fireplace set
Ekaterina Ioltukhovskaya was very successfulbusinesswoman. She received an education as an architect, and today she is an artist and decorator. She lives permanently in France, where she writes books, conducts internships for the French and Russians. Most recently, her watercolor exhibition in the center of Nantes was a success. It was timed to coincide with the festival of Russian culture, lasted three weeks and was dedicated to Solovki, which Ekaterina herself loves dearly. By her own admission, today she brings the richness of Russian culture and art to the French, and as a gift she wants a very warm thing that creates amazing comfort in the house. Katya Ioltukhovskaya, artist, decorator: - Actually, I want to gradually fill my home with French antiques. I will probably even restore these things myself. These could be chests of drawers, sideboards, armchairs from the 17th century - especially since all this is quite affordable in France. But if we are talking about something modern, then I would get a good set for the fireplace.
Ella Abushkevich wants a chair
Ella Abushkevich is a famous Moscow designerclothing, is the creator of the ironic bag with the telling name Popka bag. Today, she produces a clothing line under the ELLA Abushkevich brand. For more than ten years, as a creative director of the PR & Event agency AT Progect, she created projects in the field of art, design, and fashion. She took part in the largest fashion events as an organizer. She created clothes and individual elements for the corporate style of famous city coffee shops, restaurants, and theme parties as a stylist, and also collaborated with leading interior magazines, worked as a personal shopper and image maker in Russia and Italy. She began creating her own brand in 2012. She produces limited clothing collections once a season. Wants to receive stylish things for the home as a gift. Ella Abushkevich, designer: - For the New Year, I would like to receive a Sparkle Chair from one of my favorite designers, Karim Rashid, and an extraordinary Vapor Floor Lamp as a gift. These items would fit perfectly into the interior of my new workshop. ellaabushkevich.com
Diana Serebrova wants a tagine
Diana Serebrova is a jewelry designer at DianaSerebrova». Landscape architect by education. Has been in business for four years now, creating jewelry under her own brand. She really wants to give people beauty, bringing her ideas to life, creating handmade jewelry that has individuality and soul. Diana Serebrova’s vintage brooches quickly won the sympathy of Moscow fashionistas. And all thanks to impeccable handwork and careful selection of precious and semi-precious materials. Diana collects antiques and vintage items. She is inspired by traveling, where she loves to soak up the life of the country she visits. Diana Serebrova, jewelry designer: — I love tasty and healthy food, I won’t hide it, I love to eat a lot and tasty food. For me, cooking is an aesthetic pleasure, you could say — design. It is also important what you cook in, for me, the cookware is the most important factor in cooking. I recently discovered cast iron cookware. It has a history of more than a century and still has not lost its relevance, but the main thing is that it is environmentally friendly. So for me, a cast iron tagine will always be a welcome gift.
Nelly Konstantinova wants a dressing table
Nelly Konstantinova is a traveler,author, blogger and photographer. Was the editor-in-chief of Condé Nast Traveller, editor of Vogue magazine. A big expert of the Time Out restaurant award. Loves everything beautiful, exquisite and unique, and dreams of receiving as a gift something that is almost no longer in demand today. Nelly Konstantinova, traveler, author and photographer: - Of course, I would like to receive a robot for the New Year, a fairy-tale gnome that could sort endless documents and papers into folders, separate paid bills from unpaid ones and keep all this treasure away from my eyes. But until such robots are invented, into which the part of my memory responsible for business papers could be transmitted, I want a dressing table. At the very least, I will be able to put all my perfumes there, and I will quickly find my rings there. I dream of a rococo-style table so that I can hang chains and pendants on its curls.
Inga Azhgirey wants a drill
Inga Azhgirey is a designer and artist.She creates amazing , we really like her. She does interior painting, graphics, painting of interior items. She is engaged in interior design. She develops corporate identity. She dreams of completely atypical, but very necessary things for a designer: a grinding machine and a drill. Inga Azhgirey, designer: - Personally, I would like to receive as a gift a compact grinding machine, a drill with a bunch of small attachments, working from the mains and on a battery. And, of course, I would not refuse new perfume and extra time to read paper books.
Tatyana Vitko wants a meat grinder
Tatyana Vitko is the owner of a chain of boutiques and a websiteviva.ru, and she is also a representative of the legendary jewelry brand Kenneth Jay Lane: this brilliant designer decorated shoes with rock crystal, and his necklaces and earrings were worn by Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Madonna, Sophia Loren, Maya Plisetskaya. Tanya is a mother of four children, a loving and caring wife. And literally a woman of mystery: you will never guess how old she is, just as you will never know what city she will end up in tomorrow - Tanya has friends, it seems, all over the world. By the way, she loves to travel with the whole family. And although Tanya categorically denies that she is a skilled housewife, her wishes for the New Year tell us something completely different: a refrigerated room and a new meat grinder - today this is the limit of her dreams. Tatyana Vitko, businesswoman: - Actually, I would like to receive a subscription to all the premieres of the Bolshoi Theater as a gift, but if we are talking only about a gift for the home, then I have two wishes: one of the most "urgent" - I want a new meat grinder. I often cook cutlets at home, and I really need one, mine was once "advanced" and fashionable, but now I understand that I want something newer, because I often forget what goes where and how it is assembled and disassembled. And one of my long-term plans - I want a refrigeration room, because no matter what kind of refrigerator there is, everything is somehow inconvenient there, either a lemon will fall into the potatoes, or something will spill. Well, people have wardrobes, so why not make a refrigeration room? In general, I dream of one where everything can be conveniently stored there: milk and potatoes.
Ekaterina Istomina wants a pony
Istomina Ekaterina - golden penluxury journalism, member of the Union of Journalists of Russia, columnist for the Kommersant publishing house. Ekaterina writes always and everywhere, she simply cannot help but write; dozens of apt, ironic and profound observations appear daily on her Facebook page. There is no luxury publication that would not dream of having Katya as an author. She has interviewed and written articles about the most famous people in Russia and the world. She took our request to tell us what Ekaterina dreams of for her home literally and told us what, or rather, who, definitely has no place in the apartment! Ekaterina Istomina, journalist: - For the New Year, I would most like to receive a pony as a gift. Ten years ago, I was into polo, and I even seriously wanted to buy a polo pony, a horse of a special "sport" breed bred in Argentina in the mid-30s of the last century. Now, however, I have given up trying to become a polo player, but my sporting interest in horses remains. So the fierce, shaggy pony is my "New Year's star".
Evgeniya Zhukovskaya wants an air washer
Evgeniya Zhukovskaya is the chief editor of the portal"Parishes". You could say she is a journalist by birth, having started mastering her favorite craft even before she was born, having a journalist mother who did not leave her job almost until she gave birth. Evgenia has been working in the mass media since her last years of school, and did not leave her pen behind during her years of studying at the journalism department of the "Russian Orthodox University". She is currently preparing to defend her dissertation on the sociology of management. However, this is not leaving the profession, because her scientific research is devoted to information processes and media policy. She wants an air washer as a gift (by the way, we recently wrote about them in detail ). Evgenia Zhukovskaya, editor-in-chief of prichod.ru: - New Year is a time for household chores around the family hearth. For me, the New Year and Christmas holidays are associated with the opportunity to relax in the kitchen, bake a pie or two, bake some game, and come up with a new sauce. Unfortunately, most of us live in apartment buildings, where ventilation may not cope with the abundance of "edible" impurities in the air. And if I enjoy the smell of food in red pepper, then the neighbors may not appreciate such aromas. That's why I want an air purifier. Some brands of this unit are called "air washers." It is easy to use. This is an ideal gift for the coming New Year!
Anna Gorbunova wants a Christmas tree
Anya has worked as an editor at SALON-interior since 2005years. And today she is probably the most famous journalist in Moscow, writing about furniture, accessories and fabrics for the interior. She has become an expert in this field, so it is high time for her to give lectures on textile brands and their trends! Anna is one of the organizers of the "Sisters" group on Facebook, where they write about the most interesting things for girls. Anya is also a blogger, and she is just a very bright, cheerful girl with a huge number of friends. If they need to know something or find something in the interior market, they do not hesitate to turn to her for information or advice. Anna Gorbunova, journalist: - New Year is a holiday that allows us to briefly return to childhood, to that wonderful time when a fairy tale and a miracle are something so close and real! The time when Father Frost was your dad, when green bananas ripen on the mezzanine, when grandma bakes pies, and mom teaches you a long poem that you will read at the kindergarten party dressed as a snowflake. It’s a pity that you can’t wish to go back in time and relive all those wonderful moments. But you can create a Christmas fairy tale today, and for this I really need a beautifully decorated tree, just like the one in the picture in a fashion magazine. With toys, garlands, tinsel, artificial snow. That’s the best gift!
Olga Kosyreva wants furniture
Olga Kosyreva is a design critic and historian.design, one of the organizers of the "Olga Kosyreva Design Lectures", a program of author's lectures on the history and current state of design. As an editor and journalist, she participated in the launch of the Russian versions of AD and Interni magazines, was the editor of Vogue magazine and the editor-in-chief of Objekt@Russia and Psychologies Luxe magazines. Olga Kosyreva, critic: - Everything that I love in the house, and everything that makes my everyday life wonderful, I, of course, have: a very comfortable bed, soft bed linen, a spacious wardrobe, a desk, a lot of beautiful dishes, high-class crystal and porcelain, as well as tools and appliances for cooking. But soon I will have to move, and in the new apartment I would like to have things that are not just pleasant, but with memories, with history, things for the soul and admiration. To look at them - and think about people. And I imagine that first of all these will be things by my favorite designers, with whom, ironically, I recently met again in Miami, after which I only strengthened my opinion of their genius, and our mutual feelings with them became even warmer. This is, firstly, Patricia Urquiola - I love everything she does, and her Redondo chairs, or Clarissa Hood for Moroso would be the best gift for me. And secondly - Ninke Tinangel and Job Smets from Studio Job. I will definitely wallpaper one wall with their Archives collection for NLXL. If they don’t give it to me - I will buy it myself!
Anastasia Kachalova wants a blanket
Kachalova Anastasia is the owner of her ownbrand of home and leisure clothing IRLI. Her store offers a wide range of home and leisure clothing - silk and velvet robes, pajamas, nightgowns and much more. In her showroom you can buy what you like, taste wonderful coffee, look through the latest magazines or read one of the interesting books. This year, the most popular gift for men for the New Year was wool pajamas, which are so comfortable to spend weekends at home in. As a gift for herself, she wants a blanket. Anastasia Kachalova, businesswoman: - New Year is a family holiday, so those gifts that are intended for the whole family are doubly good and pleasant. My husband and I already have pajamas, so this year I would like to receive a large, beautiful and very warm blanket. After all, it is so wonderful to spend the holidays at home in a warm blanket, hugging your beloved husband, watching New Year's movies. Snow outside will add a special romance, but, as they say, nature has no bad weather. Especially with a warm blanket.
