Reading a new copy of Salon (July 2003). It seems like the Russian designers are competing for squeezing in more staff into a sq. meter of space. What a wild mosaic of colors, shapes, and patterns!!! The techno-style and especially techno-lighting is still ruling the design scene despite the fact that it left the Western world about 20 year ago. Even Classical interiors get a share of metallic lights. Such delayed excessiveness after all was always part of Russian taste...
--Julia