The presentation of the upcoming September exhibition Maison&Objet took place on the 5^th of June in the NOOR bar. Pascal Gravaud, French architect and official representative of Maison&Objet 2018 in Russia, Natalia Timasheva, editor-in-chief of INTERIOR + DESIGN magazine and Lana Grineva, founder of the architectural bureau PHD, Philosophy of Design, shared their observations, news, and experience about France and French design. Photographer - Natalia Inkina.

The architect and founder of the PHD bureau, Lana Grineva, for the first time, demonstrates a series of three books - Apartments, Houses, Others. In them - not only bright projects of the bureau for 15 years of activity (restaurants, hotels, offices, landscapes and even a 72-meter yacht) but also the specificity of work on interior projects of so different character is shown. The design is presented as an intimate process of living personal stories of people.

Olga Kosyreva, a journalist, critic, teacher and historian of design, participated in the preparation of books as an editor. ABC design team was working on the graphics part under the guidance of Dmitry Mordvintsev. The curator of publications is Dasha Nuzhnaya.

On 20th of May at 16:00 in Garage Screen summer cinema the book series by PHD, Philosophy of Design, were launched. The presentation brought together the author Lana Grineva, editor Olga Kosyreva, and Dutch artist Ralph Nauta, founder of Studio Drift. 

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The workshop for interior designers was held by the founder of the PHD, Philosophy of Design, Lana Grineva. The organizer of the workshop is the interior magazine Elle Decoration.

The public talk on "Porcelain in contemporary art" was held in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. The event was devoted to the launch of a collaboration with one of the most successful contemporary artists - Jeff Koons. Michel Bernardaud, the owner of the French porcelain house Bernardau, the founder of the architectural bureau PHD, Lana Grineva, were invited to the discussion. Andrei Malakhov was the moderator of the conversation.

Bernardaud has collaborated with artists since the 1950s, from the time the company was headed by Jacques Bernardaud. For now, there are collaborations with 37 artists, among them are Marina Abramovich, Sophie Kalle, Michael Lin, David Lynch, and others.
Bernardaud released several joint collections with Jeff Koons. For example, several sets of limited edition tableware with images of sculptures Banality, a series of plates Baloon Dog, based on sculptures Balloon Animals.
A series of sculptures Balloon Animals, which includes porcelain figures of 20 cm - replicas of 3-4 meter art objects by Koons, originally made of plexiglass is a new collaboration between the factory and the artist.

The discussion between Margarita Pushkina, art critic, patron of young Russian artists, collector and founder of the fair Cosmoscow, and Lana Grineva, architect, founder of PHD bureau, Philosophy of Design was held on September 8, 2017 at the Cosmoscow Art Fair 2017 in the Collector's Lounge.

During the discussion in a form of an open dialogue the speakers revealed a few themes connecting with art and interior: the role of art objects in modern interior projects, the present and the future of collecting, examined examples of work with the interior and art of the architectural bureau PHD.

The international fair of contemporary art Cosmoscow was founded by the collector and philanthropist Margarita Pushkina in 2010. It was designed to unite both Russian and international collectors, gallery owners and artists, it is the only international art fair in Russia and CIS countries.

A pop-up restaurant-club Door 19 was open in the new loft building "Arthouse" on Serebryanhicheskaya embankment on 27th of February.

The project existed only for a month - till 27th of March. During that period eight chefs worked in the restaurant, including Michelin stars owners Italian chef Tano Simonato and Spanish chef Paco Morales, as well as Dane Tim Vladimir.

The chefs were chosen for the project by the director of Moscow Omnivore festival program - Natalia Palacios. Every week a new pair of chefs have presented a set of four dishes to the public. The bar will be controlled by the Londoner Andreas Tanos. He will be assisted by barmen Simon Galvabi (UK) and Spiros Kirkiras (Greece).

PHD bureau has realized the interior design and integrated the works by the modern artists in the interior: American graffiti and video artist Kostas Seremetis, Australian artist Charlie Iso, artist from the Moscow art-group Crocodile Power. The artists have painted the walls and canvases, have made sculptures and light installations for the space.

An improvised beach with real sand, deckchairs, and beach watch towers was set out on Serebryanicheskaya embankment for just one week-end of July 19-21, right in front of Arthouse, the plan for which is to convert it soon into a part of an entire Artkvartal.

As early as the next year the first urban beaches, similar to those that are a common remedy for sweltering heat in European cities will appear on the territory of the future Artkvartal. The great demand that exists for such in Moscow was dramatically demonstrated by the Artkvartal pop-up beach which was visited by over 800 guests in 2 days, even despite the weather being anything but propitious for outdoor entertainment.

A workshop with Toby Hyam’s presentation was held in Moscow on May 15, 2013.

The goal of the workshop was to demonstrate how interaction between creative projects is capable of boosting business performance. The structure of the event suggested dividing the participants into several groups each of which was given a task to develop a business model and then examine relevant partnership options appropriate for it

Among the workshop participants were owners and heads of business ventures operating in the creative sector; this includes theatre, fashion, IT and computer games, architecture and urban planning, publishing, music and recording, cinema, television and radio, graphic art, advertising, graphic design.