“The designer is probably a profession after all. It’s just not everyone’s available.”

Passing the gallery

Interview prepared: Natalya Sedyakina

Magazine: N11 (56) 2001

S: What message do you carry to people with your creativity? - Every moment of a person’s life is filled with sensations and pre-sensations. Fear, expectation, desire - everything finds a response in what we do and even more so in what we invent. But my latest collection for Georgetti is just a desire to demonstrate the concept of luxury in furniture.S: How did you move from furniture to designing more and accessories? - The difference between the furniture and the objects that I am doing now is that the accessories are still “closer” to the person, if I may say so. More humane product or something.S: Why do you still work just just for Georgette? - Working for this factory, I have never experienced any restrictions. That is, I always did exactly what I wanted.S: How is your design process going? - This is a stream of consciousness. Sometimes - underground, sometimes - above ground. But he is always there. Perhaps this is a kind of thinking. But I can not explain how this happens exactly how this or that image is born. It's unexplainable. But I am sure that nothing comes from nothing. The design is probably the concept of multinational and cosmopolitan. This form of being that is everywhere. In a particular embodiment, the design depends on the person’s experience, on what he has experienced.S: Do you ever relax from creativity? - No, never (politely smiles). I want everything to go according to plan. First I make furniture, then objects, then accessories. Maybe tomorrow I will do the design of cars. But that's exactly the evolutionary development of me that I really like. I do not like to jump from one to another. I am going along some path that I myself have drawn, I am developing, and step by step I am implementing my ideas. And most of all I love the “design process”.S: Do you think design is a profession or a vocation? - You see, there are a lot of interesting things in life that you can do. But it seems to me that you need to focus on one thing in order to eventually become great in what you do, and not to be mediocre everywhere.S: So after all: profession or vocation? - This is, if I may say so, "market vocation." Because you have to do what people buy anyway.S: It turns out that if you have nothing to live for, then you are a designer "for the soul"? - Not. The designer is probably still a profession. Just not everyone is available.