August 15 at the VOKhM them. I.N. Kramskoi held a lecture “Eternally Living Past. Design as an evolution of an idea. ”

The lecturer was Pavel Ulyanov, a design historian, a specialist in the history of residential design, the founder of the Chairmuseum project.

The event was held as part of an educational program implemented on the basis of the exhibition “History of Russian Design 1917 – 2017”, which is a joint project of the Moscow Museum of Design, PJSC SIBUR and the Voronezh Museum named after I.N. Kramskoy.

The lecture was based on the theme of evolutionary design. On the example of objects from the collection of chairs and armchairs of industrial design of the twentieth century, the lecturer identified the basic ideas that underlie the masterpieces of furniture design, and showed the transformation of these ideas for many hundreds of years. Listeners learned about the peculiarities of Russian design, the development of which was directly related to changes in the socio-economic development of the country, and about what formed the basis of the so-called “Correct” and “reasonable” design.