Russian designers launch avant garde landmarks desk accessories collection
Paper-clip holder, inspired by Melnikov House (Image: 52 Factory)
Post-it note holder, referencing the Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage (Image: 52 Factory)
Pencil sharpener and business-card holder, taking its design from St Petersburg's Communication Industry Workers' Palace of Culture (Image: 52 Factory)
Ruler inspired by the Red Banner Textile Factory (Image: 52 Factory)
The full Russian Avant-Garde Desktop Organiser collection (Image: 52 Factory)
21 January 2016
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Elise Morton
Russian designers Nasya Kopteva and Sasha Braulov have launched a collection of desk accessories inspired by architectural landmarks from the Russian avant-garde period.
The Russian Avant-Garde Desktop Organiser collection is made from the leftover solid oak from a carpentry workshop.
Melnikov House, designed by architect and artist Konstantin Melnikov in the 1920s, serves as the inspiration for a magnetic paper-clip holder that takes on the double-drum shape of the building, while another building designed by Melnikov (together with Vladimir Shukhov), the Bakhmetevsky Bus Garage, is the basis for the design of a block to store Post-it notes.
Kopteva and Braulov’s two-in-one pencil sharpener and business-card holder takes its design from St Petersburg’s Communication Industry Workers’ Palace of Culture, designed by P M Grinberg and G S Raitz and finished in 1939, while the 75-metre-high chimney of the city’s Red Banner Textile Factory by German architect Erich Mendelsohn informs the design of a tapered ruler.
Details of the full collection can be found here.
Source: Dezeen
