Working in the industry once in your life makes you sensitive to it forever. Speaking of Advertising, I love it, and all the more so when I come across odd posters. The one in the photo hangs (probabl...
St. Trinity Church I try to take regular walks in Vorobyovy Gory, one of my all-time favourite places in Moscow. In fact, I would love to live close enough to be able to go there every other day. This...
I‘m taking part in a photography project by Kirill Kuzmin, Bloggers’ Portraits. This Internet moves in mysterious ways, and I cannot even remember now how I came across Kirill’s blog...
What I definitely liked about this year’s Moscow Design Week is its higher class. Last year’s MDW was a first attempt, clearly done with a bit of scepticism towards its own necessity. The ...
Christ the Saviour Cathedral Christ the Saviour Cathedral I am reading Cursed Days by Ivan Bunin, the Russian 1933 Nobel Laureate in Literature. In the 1917-18 Diary that precedes the narrative...
Although the father-founder of the Moscow Design Week, Alexander Fedotov, has said that the event organisers tried not to restrict “design” to Architecture and Interior Design only, but al...
Ingo Maurer’s project for the 2nd Moscow Design Week (11-16 October 2011) explores the notions of light and fire as applied to the living space. Called ‘the Poet of Light’ by Gilda B...
This could be a joke, unless it was true: in Japan, the scientists and tourism industry pros decided to invite a group of monkeys to a film screening. Assuming that like should be interested in the li...
Chuck & The Dirty Dog, Moscow, July 2011 In Chelyabinsk (that’s a city in Southern Ural in Russia) they are celebrating John Lennon’s 71st birthday on October 10. Paul McCartney is tyi...
… is currently overshadowed by the fact that the central heating in many Moscow buildings is yet to be switched on for winter season. Whereas in my flat I can wear a T-shirt with short sleeves, ...