At Design Miami/Basel 2013, Heritage Gallery of Moscow unveils another sensational exhibition dedicated to Soviet interior design. The gallery will make the first-ever exhibition of unique one-off interior items of the Soviet Empire Style spanning the the Stalinist period, the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s.

The Soviet Empire Style was marked by luxury and monumentality, combining elements of the Baroque, Napoleon Empire, neo-classical and Art Deco. This state-sanctioned style replaced the Avant-garde as the Soviet Union's main aesthetic concept. It symbolized a return to classical notions of beauty, and became the hallmark of a powerful rising Soviet empire.

Heritage Gallery will present unique decorative objects, lamps, and exquisite furniture. Most were single-copy items, made at great cost for the private apartments of the political elite, as well as for public spaces such as the Hotel Moskva, and the Red Army Theater in Moscow.

With such political oblivion and the changes in tastes over the past 60 years, many interior items from the Stalinist period were thrown away and lost. Few items have been preserved, which makes this exhibition even more special.

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