Once I got a sense of freedom during my first actual project, I moved almost every single wall in the space, even the ones that were not necessary. Organizing walls for me is like organizing a closet – every corner needs to be in the right place.

I love my Russian heritage and I try to always incorporate it in every project I create through colours and shapes. I like to see how my memories translate through time and compare it with the reality in my projects nowadays.

No, but I dream to change the home I grew up in one day.

Everyone has an iPhone and Instagram. It is everyone’s personal choice to choose what and what not to post. When someone posts something, it means they want to share it with others and save it in their feed. Before Instagram existed, we would save things on our desktop as the background photo. It’s the same as music: you can add a song to your playlist that you love, but at the end of the day, you will only share the song you really love.

Soviet metro stations are pretty intriguing to me. Around seventy years ago, the best designers worked very hard to create something very extraordinary and monumental for people to make them feel a part of design. It didn’t work, and now we just use it to go to work and home, but the beauty of the stations still remains the same.

I think colours are very strong and interesting visual tools. Think about how many colours there are in the world, but most of the time, we can only see a select few. Also, colours are free, you don’t have to pay for them.

People get annoyed when they see something they don’t understand. It really annoys them when you don’t follow trends and develop your own design language. The thing is that yes, my grandma has five of them – that’s the point.

Actually, even before urban design, I was a graphic designer and it for sure didn’t hurt me. I learned how to think in both micro and large scales. I also learned how to combine them and work with both together.

I used to be a terrible student, then I wondered should I become a good teacher. It was actually quite vulnerable.

I guess design has to make you horny. Right? Not bored and depressed.

Tsoi – Lives! This portrait was before the Cannes and Summer, but this portrait made a lot of noise as well.

I decorated a Christmas tree with used plastic bottles. I literally just put trash on a bare tree. If you just think about how many boxes, crystals, wrapping paper, and plastic we use for just a five-minute experience, it’s ironic to then put it all back on the tree. Of course, it’s not necessary to be so wasteful during the holidays. I wanted to invest in rethinking how to make a tree beautiful using waste and not add to the waste problem.

I want to design an unforgettable hotel and an interior for a plane – not a private plane, but a commercial plane for everyone.