Friday Five with Victoriya Yakusha

Architect, inside designer, and product designer Victoriya Yakusha is the founding father of Yakusha Design studio amongst a number of different artistic ventures. The Ukrainian expertise can also be behind the furnishings and decor design at FAINA Design and proprietor of the design lecture corridor Ya Vsesvit. Victoriya created all of this in an try and put Ukraine’s design trade on the map.

“I imagine that inspiration is in all places, you simply should look together with your eyes extensive open. With the sentiments of honest love for my nationwide roots, I dedicate my works to my homeland. By my product design at FAINA and inside tasks, I need to replicate the entire life pressure of vitality that has been encapsulated over the Ukrainian land for hundreds of years – as I really feel it, in a contemporary interpretation,” she stated.

At this time Victoriya is becoming a member of us to share 5 of her favourite issues in Friday 5!

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1. Ukrainian Fashionable Music
I like up to date Ukrainian musicians who discover inspiration in our conventional folklore songs or use conventional musical devices, like buhay, trembita, and tsymbaly, in a recent method. It sounds actually recent and attention-grabbing. My favourite musicians in the present day are Onuka, DakhaBrakha, Jamala, Alina Pash, Marina Krut, and lots of others.

Maria Primachenko

2. Ukrainian Ornamental Artwork
I’ve been captivated with ornamental artwork for a few years. It has grow to be my supply of inspiration for design – from the traditional painted vases and embroideries in our conventional material to hand-woven woolen carpets referred to as “hutsul lizhnyk”. I really like their wealthy patterns and wild textures, they usually inform us a lot in regards to the rituals, traditions, and beliefs of our ancestors.

I particularly love the work of Ukrainian self-taught painter Maria Primachenko, naïve and fabulous mythological beasts which take root іn folks legends and fairy-tales. Picasso as soon as stated after visiting a Primachenko exhibition in Paris: “I bow down earlier than the inventive miracle of this sensible Ukrainian.”

Photograph courtesy of OWENSCORP

3. Rick Owens and Michele Lamy
Such a gifted tandem of designers in some ways, they create a robust signature which can’t be confused with others. I really like the interiors of their style showrooms, furnishings assortment, their model, and graphic design – every little thing is so highly effective. I at all times go to their showrooms every time I journey in Europe or the USA.

Dima Sergeev

4. Handicraft
I really like crafts from all around the world, issues which were made by hand with non-mechanized instruments, information of earlier generations, and with respect to nature. 5 years in the past I found conventional Ukrainian crafts, a lot of that are endangered due of lack of curiosity in them and really low profitability. So I requested myself, what can we as designers do to protect native crafts? Our resolution was a design expedition, involving well-known international artists and press, that helped us convey consideration to this problem on a nationwide and international stage. On our first journey we highlighted Roberto Bachiocchi, architect of Prada, La Perla, Miu Miu boutiques, Annaleena Leno, gifted inside designer and stylist from Sweden, editor of ICON journal and lots of others. This yr we took the undertaking to a nationwide stage with the assist of the Ukrainian Cultural Basis and obtained over 14 worldwide design consultants from all around the world – USA, UK, Germany, Belgium, Finland, and extra. Sharing my ardour of Ukrainian crafts with others conjures up me.

5. My Household
My largest assist and inspiration in life is my husband and Four children. I like to spend holidays collectively in our forest home, getting ready barbecue, and taking part in with our canine. These moments are treasured and I worth all of them as the most important treasure in my life.