COLLECTIONS

Reproduction of folk traditional Hutsul art (crafts) (indigenous people of the Carpathian Mountains, located in the West of Ukraine) — carving, which embodies an understanding of beauty and goodness, a life-affirming worldview, gives this object of design special importance. The spiritual world and aesthetic ideas of the Hutsuls were greatly influenced by the nature of the Carpathian Mountains, with which life in this region seems to have merged. The rich imagination of the highlanders was manifested in a bright, peculiar art, in particular in wood carving. This object became a synthesis of traditional and modern worldview. The HCC7 collection is like a space satellite, which with its antennas (locators) radiates into the world forgotten folk crafts, thoughts and talents of generations, relays the aesthetics of traditional crafts in a modern object in terms of design and function.

The GONT collection was inspired by traditional roofing material. Shingles are often used in Ukrainian architecture to cover the roof in the form of wedge-shaped shingles, shaped dies. Shingles can be tongue-and-groove, chipped, or sawn. The round base of the table and the round vase also resemble the fractal geometry of the scales of the cones of coniferous trees. Each item of the collection can be made in black and white colors using modern technologies of powder coating of stainless metal and manual work.

Fire is a symbol of warmth, kindness. A real Polony fire is lit for Yuri and it should burn all summer, practically until the Second Mother of God. The crossed elements of the construction form rhombuses, the rhombus is an archaic sign, it is associated with the fertility of man and the earth. The basis for deciphering the meaning of the symbol is the masculine and feminine principle. The rhombus, or as it is also called, the Trypil square, is also an image of a harrow, a tool that prepares the land for sowing.

Hutsul ornament is characterized by the geometricity of the drawings, which are created with straight, broken and regularly wavy lines and simple shapes (triangle, circle, semicircle, square, rhombus, rosettes). A variety of drawings, which is achieved by the composition of lines and shapes. The Stern collection takes its roots from the name of the Hutsul ornament Shterno - Stars, Stars. They can also be associated with the four-leaf clover - this is a rare variety of the common (three-leaf) clover. They say that such clovers bring good luck.

The idea of the lamp was born after another viewing of the brilliant film «Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors», which most accurately expresses traditions and life in the Hutsul region. «Bellrise» is an interpretation of a necklace made of ritual Christmas bells. This is a real archaic phenomenon, which is still preserved in Ukrainian culture today, awakens and heals with its sound, reminds a person of the continuous tradition of ancestors, sanctifies and purifies space, overcomes chaos and gives order.

Arkan (Romanian: Arcan, «arkan», «lasso», «circle») is a Ukrainian folk dance for men, widespread in the west of the country. An element of the rite of initiation, the dedication of a Hutsul youth into a legion. After passing the rite, he received the right to dance, carry axes -bartku, a wide belt-cheres and kill enemies. They dance in a closed circle or semicircle with hatchets in their hands. Characteristic rhythmic alternation - 2/4 in the first measure and 2/8 and 1/4 in the second. The "ARKAN" collection is like the dance itself , becomes the embodiment of energy and grace, creates the effect of movement and play of light, mirroring clear movements of dancers in a circle.