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The shopping mall “Baltiysky” presents a new project of the Russian Fashion Gallery, the art café “Atelier” 16.04.2008
The art café “ATELIER” is a new and expectedly unusual project of the Mall “Baltiyskiy”. This is the place where two lines of the Russian Fashion Gallery’s boutiques are crossing. You ascend the escalator to the second floor and after having tried on new fascinating models of Larissa Pogoretskaya turn left to visit the new art café. You also may turn right, come to Chemistry and then to Pirosmani, Princess and Frogs, Vitamin, one more turn and you are at Mekler, Ianis Chamalidy, Tatyana Sulimina, Lya Yots, Elena Kvel, another turn to Alexandra Kiaby, Kogel, Ilya Chelyhev… and soon you are again in the art café. “ATELIER” forms a circle of ultrafashionable topic of the gallery. 200 sq. meters of pure style: dark grey “industrial” floor coating is cut by a snow-white stripe. It is a real podium where each Gallery’s visitor may walk and feel like a model, stylist, professional photographer or a stage director. There are giant drawings of patterns on both sides. Fashion likes exaggerations and we have met its desire. The patterns will hardly give you an answer for the timeless question “Where shall we make waist?”, but they will surely raise your spirits. Treat fashion standards with irony and indulge yourself a cup of coffee or tea with dessert. The atelier theme is followed by custom-made lamps covered by a unique fabric imported form Japan. Lamps make a kind of alliance with mannequins. Lampshades fit close to their refined shapes like bustier dresses. But the real professional light does not come from them, but it is poured from above, from the ceiling. The ceiling is an art-for-art made of metal structure for hanging pictures, photos, posters, objects of arts.
“ATELIER’’s space can be easily transformed. Today it is a show-room for collections of the Japanese designers Garconshiois, KINO, HISUI, Everlasting Sprout, Tiny Dinosaur, Kamishima Chinami, where you can buy models of the spring-summer season right off the podium. From early May it is the place for original exhibitions, fashion and art projects, high parties. A powerful projector and an enormous screen make the art café an ideal place for press conferences, workshops and creative meetings. The nearest plans of the Gallery offer master classes for designers, retailers, buyers, photographers and stylists of the “Image Studio” 28 of Liliana Modigliani.
Art Café “ATELIER”
Mall “Baltiysky”
Bolshoy Proyezd, 68