Let’s be inspired by the amazing wonderland where pink plexiglass meets blue vinyl.
Thirty-three year old Harry Nuriev is currently an important figure in the new wave of the group of youngish talents. His aesthetic, you might say, fits in with the global minimalism trend. Harry is the founder, artist, and architect of Crosby studios in New York and Moscow, and for the past years, he has been working with both residential and hospitality projects, where he designs not only the interior but also all the individual furniture and art objects that go with the interiors.
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In this apartment, you can see a prevalence of brass, ubiquitous arches and an ambient influence of the ’70s and ’80s: that era of sunken living rooms, scalloped seating and “Golden Girls” peaches and pinks. Ettore Sottsass and his Memphis Group are routinely referenced, though the collective’s Day-Glo hues and cartoonish shapes tend to get reinterpreted as something less ebullient and more streamlined.
That chandelier overhead in Harry Nureyev’s kitchen, It’s made from 300-ish Bic pens that he carefully unscrewed, one by one, to remove the ink inside, leaving the clear cylindrical tubes and blue caps to dangle from a ring-like crystal. A poster of late Russian singer Viktor Tsoi, who Harry says was “kind of a Patti Smith [and] symbol of my childhood,” leans up against the wall behind (the original is by soviet painter Timur Novikov).
When it comes to color, Nuriev is a serial monogamist. “Colors to me are like people,” he says. “When I fall in love, I try to make the relationship work.” Pink was a great passion, but his latest obsession is royal blue — a flat, bright shade that, along with the brass he favors, was once a symbol of czarist Russia.
Harry describes “I love how the two colors play with each other—the electric blue and this elegant, naked skin color,” he says. “It was by accident, I didn’t know the two colors would work!”
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