Follow Me: New Russian Object Design 

Here at Design Mate we've opened the "Russian season": we'll be talking about how and by what means the contemporary Russian design lives, who it represents and what's so interesting about it, all month long. For this piece, a guest DM editor in August, an art historian, a curator of exhibitions of Russian design, the author of IZBA Project, Tatiana Kudryavtseva chose 7 young Russian designers, who are worth following. We'll tell you about all the cool stuff they've done lately.

Maxim Scherbakov and Supaform

Titems of the "Disused" COLLECTION, Maxim Shcherbakov

The designer has two specialized education diplomas — in art and in architecture. First, together with his colleague Alexey Galkin, Shcherbakov created the Plan-S23 design project, and now the Studio founded Supaform. This year the designer presented his project "Disused" at the Milan design week in the framework of the exhibition Ventura Future in a historic building FuturDome. The line includes a console, a couch and a table made of glass and marble. Graphically the shapes of the objects refer to typical in the ancient architecture columns and brutalism. In the framework of the exhibition the objects were elements color-matched still-lifes and looked in the best traditions of design boards on Pinterest. Among other achievements of the designer is the SightUnseen OFFSITE exhibition in new York.

Katya Tolstykh

Vases "MEME", Katya Tolstykh

Katya Tolstykh is a multidisciplinary designer from St. Petersburg. She comes up with the objects and is involved in interior design, and her main goal is to achieve unity between them, the most harmonious combination. The designer likes the architecture of constructivism, Russian avant-garde, Scandinavian and Japanese minimalism and prefers to work with natural materials — wood and metal. One of the last works of the designer are sculptural vases, inspired by brutalism and park furniture called "MEME". In September Katya will take part in the Maison & Objet fair in Paris, and is still working on the prototype of the new object – Proun chair.

Dmitry Samygin

Table "Croquet" and chair "Stella", Dmitry Samygin

Dmitry Samygin lives and works in Moscow. He is not only a furniture designer but also an artist: since last year, his painting and graphics are shown in Sample gallery, and just recently an exhibition of his gouaches called "the Rhythm of Color" ended in the "Perelyotnyj Kabak" (Migratory tavern) gallery. As for design, since 2018, a French company Roche Bobois produces a collection of tables "Croquet" based on Dmitry's design. In addition, he presented his chair "Stella" at the last design week in Milan.

Maya Prokhorova

Capsule furniture collection "Birch", Maya Prokhorova

Maya was born in Moscow but studied and works in Saint-Petersburg and can design anything from needles to missiles. Last year she took home four awards in the "Conceptual design" category at a large-scale design competition Red Dot Design Award: for concepts of a modular lighting system, a speaker system, a capsule collection of furniture and a backpack. However, she received her first Red Dot two years earlier - for a project of a three-wheeled scooter called Tripod. Now the designer is developing a collection of lamps for brands Bezhko Lighting and Mayaprodesign.

Daria Zinovatnaya

Furniture from the collection of "Itten", Daria Zinovataya

Daria Zinovataya lives and works in Saint-Petersburg. The lady designs both interiors and the furniture, and her first furniture project "Cherokee" was immediately awarded the Red Dot Design Award. Zinovataya's design is an explosion of color and basic geometric shape, in which it's easy to see the influence of avant-garde art and the art of a formation called "Memphis". The latest collection of the designer, "Itten", was named after Johannes Itten, a Swiss artist who professed a philosophy of color close to Daria's.

Yaroslav Misonzhnikov

"Saturn-5" watch, Yaroslav Misonzhnikov

Yaroslav Misezhnikov, a designer from Saint Petersburg, interned at the design Studio of Kiki van Eyck and Joost van Bleiswijk in Eindhoven for three months and took part in the anniversary exhibition 20 Years of Salone Satellite in Milan with his table "Zevaka". Last year he introduced a "Stick" system, which allows one to make a hanging lamp themselves. A wooden module is the first thing that the designer released under his own brand – Misonzhnikov. One of the latest projects of the designer is a clock with marble base for Past Indicator.

Delo Design

Chairs from the collection "NORMS", Delo Design

Delo Design brand is also from St. Petersburg, specializing on the base furniture, especially chairs. "We strive to create objects that are identical to their nature", say the designers. "This identity is in the unity of the structure, functions, geometry, ideological and artistic sense."