Interior decorator and product designer Elina Tuktamisheva has long been studying the history of Russian style in design. Inspired by the domes of the northern churches, she released a collection of lamps made entirely of wood, with shingles and hand painting inside based on designs of Pokrovsky Cathedral in Moscow. For the first time, the Kupola lamps were presented to large public at the BATIMAT RUSSIA 2019 exhibition as part of the Integrated Solutions exposition.
This is how Elina Tuktamisheva describes the concept of her stand entitled Timeless: “Light, space, shadows... Time... Symbol of the past is the shadow of the church on the wall cast by wire sculpture. Symbol of the future is the shadow of the city. Symbols of the present are the sculptures themselves. The present is always difficult to evaluate here and now, it can be assessed only through the prism of time. Time will pass and the present will cast its true shadow. There is a portal in the center, where the Kupola lamps are beyond time, but in space. They haven’t yet cast their shadows...”
The idea of the stand is to demonstrate the reconceptualization of Russian art, the modern interpretation of Russian style in design. Elina Tuktamisheva combined many original solutions, including the limited collection of Kupola lamps, into one holistic image.
Outside the lamps are strict in their aesthetic beauty of shingles (lemekh). From the inside they bloom with bright paintings made by artist Tatyana Korelyakova. And the woodworkers of Sophia-Decor, the Russian-French architectural and production company, helped to realize the designer’s idea. “For our masters nothing is impossible. The more complex the task, the greater the creative challenge. We gladly set hands to work on this very thin and elegant piece of furniture. And in my opinion, we managed to translate the designer’s ideas,” says Alexander Evdokimov, CEO and founder of Sophia-Decor.
The collection by Elina Tuktamisheva was first presented to large public at the BATIMAT RUSSIA 2019 exhibition, where it aroused great interest and admiration among connoisseurs of non-ordinary objects in modern interior.
Besides, Elina Tuktamisheva, the mastermind and curator the Tryn*Trava exhibition on the modern Russian style, held a master class on the topic: ‘Timeless Russian Style. Codes of Perception’. She spoke about the Russian style, which allows nobody to stay indifferent, told the attendees where to look for it, what time period may be attributed to Russian style and how Russian style is perceived through cultural codes.