Four Designers Explain Why Ukrainian Carpets and Crafts Could Be the Next Big Thing
Learn about the lizhniky, a Hutsul blanket, and why the legendary Prada store architect Roberto Baciocchi just bought 19 of them!
Ukraine’s design scene opened its doors to a group of journalists and design experts for the very first time in an expedition organized by Victoria Yakusha of FAINA collection. Yakusha invited Roberto Baciocchi, legendary architect for Prada’s stores and an interior designer and art curator; Anna Lina Leno of Annaleena Studio; Madeline Asplund of Asplund Klingsted Interior; and Laura Snood of ICON Magazine, to experience the unique technologies used to make crafts in the Ukrainian countryside.
Ukraine Design Expedition
“While talking to my European colleagues at professional exhibitions in Milan, Paris, London and Stockholm, I realized how little they know about Ukraine and absolutely do not understand who we are. At the same time, I heard many times about the interest in booming Ukrainian contemporary design, as of something new that could soon set global trends,” Yakusha said. Yakusha worried that these techniques were not being passed down, and were further being threatened by new, modern ways of production. Through the expedition, she wanted to present what Ukraine has to offer before it is too late.
“Many of these crafts are endangered, so interest in them from foreign designers and the media will also help to attract the attention of the internal audience,” she said.
Ukrainian blankets
The grou...
Ukraine’s design scene opened its doors to a group of journalists and design experts for the very first time in an expedition organized by Victoria Yakusha of FAINA collection. Yakusha invited Roberto Baciocchi, legendary architect for Prada’s stores and an interior designer and art curator; Anna Lina Leno of Annaleena Studio; Madeline Asplund of Asplund Klingsted Interior; and Laura Snood of ICON Magazine, to experience the unique technologies used to make crafts in the Ukrainian countryside.
Ukraine Design Expedition
“While talking to my European colleagues at professional exhibitions in Milan, Paris, London and Stockholm, I realized how little they know about Ukraine and absolutely do not understand who we are. At the same time, I heard many times about the interest in booming Ukrainian contemporary design, as of something new that could soon set global trends,” Yakusha said. Yakusha worried that these techniques were not being passed down, and were further being threatened by new, modern ways of production. Through the expedition, she wanted to present what Ukraine has to offer before it is too late.
“Many of these crafts are endangered, so interest in them from foreign designers and the media will also help to attract the attention of the internal audience,” she said.
Ukrainian blankets
The grou...
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