Vasily Rogatin lives in the past. The designer believes that we, the people of the post-industrial present, lack antiquity, and serial industrial production depreciates the interior. In search of an alternative, Basil turned to the Italian Renaissance and the art of Byzantium. He creates architectural projects, looking at which it is easy to be deceived - they look like a Renaissance palace; as a designer, he invents furnishings decorated with busts of Roman emperors and heraldic symbols. The emblems carry an important message, Rogatin believes: in previous centuries, furniture was perceived as a jewel, was closely associated with the owner, spoke of his status and family history. The designer calls the style of these things Russian-Byzantine. Recently, by the way, his book devoted to this direction was published (the presentation took place just on "INTERIOR SHOW").