Moscow Design Museum and Phaidon just released this book about Soviet design! It’s in English, available on Phaidon and . It looks awesome!
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If you’re in Belgium, you must check this out. The Moscow Design Museum and the ADAM (Brussels Design Museum) present: Soviet Design. Red Wealth, the first of its kind retrospective showcase bringing together daily objects and graphics designed in the USSR in the past century.
Open until 21.05.2018. Info: http://adamuseum.be/expositions-soviet-design-red-wealth/
Now wouldn’t it be great to do a meet-up in Brussels! I wish, I wish :)
Soviet Design. Red Wealth exhibition in ADAM museum, Brussels (via)
“Greetings from Moscow”
Rigonda radiogram (radio + gramophone) designed by Adolf Irbite, in production between 1963 and 1977 (via)
Tea set manufactured by Baranovsky Porcelain Factory, USSR 1960s
(Collection of Moscow Design Museum)
This is a vintage Russian electrical metronome that I picked up recently. It comes with an original box, but it doesn’t work (probably needs someone who understands the electrical.. stuff). But it’s a thing of beauty! Enjoy.
The words read presto, allegro, moderato, adagio.
Also, this model is called Baby (Малыш).
Desk lamp designed by Mikhail Olenev in 1968 (via)
USSR-made portable radio receivers from 1960s and 1980s (via )
Tech design of the Soviet Union (via)
Illustration by Kirill Ovchinnikov