There seems to be something inexplicably attractive about the letter “I”. The American protagonist of Eat, Play, Love went, respectively, to Italy, India, and Indonesia in search of her tr...
I visited the Bolshoi Theatre only once, in early 1999. Together with my uni friend we listened to the Stone Guest (Don Juan) opera. We sat literally under the roof, and I got to see the beautiful mur...
What I definitely liked about this year’s Moscow Design Week is its higher class. Last year’s MDW was a first attempt, clearly done with a bit of scepticism towards its own necessity. The ...
Although the father-founder of the Moscow Design Week, Alexander Fedotov, has said that the event organisers tried not to restrict “design” to Architecture and Interior Design only, but al...
Ingo Maurer’s project for the 2nd Moscow Design Week (11-16 October 2011) explores the notions of light and fire as applied to the living space. Called ‘the Poet of Light’ by Gilda B...
Chuck & The Dirty Dog, Moscow, July 2011 In Chelyabinsk (that’s a city in Southern Ural in Russia) they are celebrating John Lennon’s 71st birthday on October 10. Paul McCartney is tyi...
At the top left corner of my blog there now hangs a widget which I hope you will use. It is an online petition to the Ukrainian President to stop cruelty on animals. You can read the petition below. B...
The Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent) has upheld a complaint from the UEFA in the plagiarism dispute concerning the famous symbol of the Champions L...
… I was in a terrible worry: Daniel (my late ex-husband) was coming to Russia on September 13. One, I wasn’t sure if he’d be allowed to fly, and we both missed each other badly. Two ...