Moscow design week

Mos­cou, Russie, Oc­to­ber 2012 — The de­sign­er Ora-Ito is go­ing to vis­it Mos­cow once more so as to pre­pare some­thing spe­cial for MDW again. This year, the de­sign­er will pre­sent the pro­ject Cafe SAVVIN­SKAYA 23 named af­ter the cen­ter of mod­ern de­sign, where it will be lo­cat­ed. Its open­ing is sche­d­uled for Novem­ber 2012. How­ev­er, the vis­i­tors of MDW have a chance to see the pro­to­type of the bar a month ear­li­er. The art ob­ject is fea­tured by flex­i­bil­i­ty of lines and fu­turis­tic shapes, so typ­i­cal for the au­thor. Bright col­or mag­ne­tize a view­er and doesn’t let him off, caus­ing thoughts about ex­trater­re­s­trial civ­i­l­iza­tions and their slow pen­e­tra­tion in­to our re­al­i­ty.

From 11 to 16 of Oc­to­ber Mos­cow De­sign Week 2011 took place in Mos­cow, prov­ing its sta­tus of the most im­por­tant de­sign event in Rus­sia in its widest sense: from graph­ic, in­te­ri­or and fashion de­sign to in­dus­trial and ar­chi­tec­tu­ral de­sign. Al­most 400,000 peo­ple visit­ed over 10 sites of MDW: stu­dents, de­sign­ers, ar­chi­tects, buy­ers, celebri­ties, rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Rus­sian and for­eign press, in­vit­ed guests, those who reg­is­tered at the web­site of Mos­cow De­sign Week, and sim­p­ly who has pas­sion for de­sign. Last year Art Trad­ing Group, an or­ganiz­er of MDW, made a bold ini­tia­tive to hold the first Mos­cow De­sign Week with the aim of estab­lish­ment of cul­tu­r­al and eco­nom­ic plat­form and fa­vor­able en­vi­ron­ment for de­vel­op­ment of de­sign in Rus­sia. Mos­cow De­sign Week 2011 be­came a key even in the world of de­sign tak­ing an hon­ored place on a cal­en­der of in­ter­na­tio­n­al De­sign Weeks, which take place in Paris, Mi­lan, Copen­ha­gen, Eind­hoven, Tokio, Lon­don and other ci­ties of the world. “This year we ma­n­aged to pre­sent a unique con­tent. Per­haps, none of De­sign Week of the world can boast such a ter­ri­to­rial scope and a num­ber of au­thor­i­ta­tive, promi­nent names and re­mark­able in­s­tal­la­tions. Mos­cow De­sign Week is not on­ly the most sig­ni­f­i­cant, but al­so the on­ly cul­tu­r­al and ed­u­ca­tio­n­al event, re­al­ly in­ter­na­tio­n­al fes­ti­val of de­sign” – com­ment­ed Alexan­der Fe­do­tov, the Chair­man of the Board of Di­rec­tors of Art Trad­ing Group and the Presi­dent of or­ganiz­ing com­mit­tee of MDW. “Adopt­ing a scale of thoughts of such great peo­ple like Lui­gi Colani, we start to learn and cog­nize beau­ty in de­sign, and, I dare to hope, we give op­por­tu­ni­ty for learn­ing to those who visit­ed Mos­cow De­sign week this year” – add­ed Alexan­der. This year or­ganiz­ers of Mos­cow De­sign Week pre­sent­ed the fol­low­ing pro­jects: De­sign Su­per­heroes, Mu­tants
Ar­chi­tec­ture & De­sign, Or­gan­ic Dwelling: biomimicry in de­sign & ar­chi­tec­ture by Li Edel­coort, Bio De­sign Codex by Lui­gi Colani, MADE IN ITA­LY by Gi­ulio Cap­pelli­ni, pro­ject of Ele­na Aki­mo­va, Peo­ple of De­sign, and of course, french de­sign­er, Ora-Ito.
For sev­er­al days, Mos­cow turned in­to the cen­ter of world de­sign clus­ter. The cap­i­tal visit­ed in­vit­ed by MDW 2011 pro­fes­sio­n­als Gi­ulio Cap­pelli­ni, Li Edelkoort, In­go Mau­r­er, Gil­da Bo­jar­di, Ron Gi­lad, Ja­copo Fog­gi­ni, Gi­ulio Iacchet­ti, and other stars of de­sign. The main ex­hi­bi­tion sites of MDW 2011 be­came Red Oc­to­ber Cho­co­late Fac­to­ry, Con­tem­po­rary Art Cen­ter Win­za­vod, Jour­nal­ism fac­ul­ty of the Mos­cow State Uni­ver­si­ty, Cen­tral House of Artist, Gorky Park,Mu­se­um for Ar­chi­tec­ture, RuArts Gallery, Art Mu­se­um Mul­ti­me­dia, Cro­cus Ex­po,and other pop­u­lar sites of Mos­cow.