The Fifth Exhibition Moscow Garden Show - 5 Showed Zest For Garden And Home

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

From 15 to 18 March in the capital's exhibition center "Crocus-Expo" was held the fifth international exhibition "House and Garden. Moscow garden show ". In 2012, the stands of 90 participating companies from Russia, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, USA, Finland and Sweden were located on an area of 4500 square meters.

The main thematic sections of the exhibition were: landscape design, garden furniture, aqua design, flowers and decor, garden equipment, grills and barbecues. There were, as always, a lot of visitors (both professionals and amateurs). This is partly explained by the fact that the exhibition is interesting in itself, and partly by the fact that in parallel with it in the neighboring halls the exhibitions “Wooden House”, “Salon of Fireplaces”, “Aqua salon: Welness & SPA” are traditionally held, and all four events can be visited with one general ticket.

Professionals got the opportunity to participate in the next conference "Fashion Trends in Landscape Design" This time the famous English landscape architect and journalist Andy Stejen conducted traditional master classes at the conference.

As always, the most striking event of the exhibition was the annual competition “Landscape Fashion. A garden for a star. This time, landscape designers and architects dedicated their exhibition gardens to such famous personalities as Yuri Antonov, Povilas Vanagas, Marina Golub, Larisa Dolina, Daria Dontsova, Margarita Drobyazko. The Grand Prix of the competition was awarded to the garden "Everything is in your hands", created by representatives of the Yaroslavl Association of Landscape Specialists and dedicated to the actress Marina Golub. It simultaneously represented a resting place, a stage and a podium, on which were placed cubic flowerpots with plants, a mini-pond, a spectacular tree and a resting two-dimensional lady made of transparent plastic, similar to glass.

The choice of the English guest Andy Stegen fell on the "Thirst" garden, made by Natalia Kaminska and dedicated to the figure skater Margarita Drobyazko. It was based on a combination of cold concrete walls, on which two icebergs with a vast plane of water are drawn and highlighted by light. And in it, the author placed numerous indoor plants. In the center of the garden was a platform with two folding wooden chairs installed on it.

The first place in the "Leisure Garden" nomination was taken by the work "Chill-out for two", dedicated to figure skaters Margarita Drobyazko and Povilas Vanagas. It arose thanks to the imagination of the employees of the Royal Gardens company. The basis of this garden was formed by a snow-white openwork wooden rounded gazebo with red seats and blue pillows, resulting in a patriotic tricolor. A biofireplace located in the center of the gazebo, as well as luminous white balls and fluttering artificial tongues of flame placed along the periphery gave a special charm to the work.

In the "Garden-Garden" nomination, the first place went to the creative project "Garden Jazz", made by the employees of the "Green Hand" company and dedicated to the singer Larisa Dolina. It was designed in black and white with a splash of green and a few other colors and was built on the contrast of brutal and not at all "garden" water pipes and delicate representatives of flora. Together they formed a harmonious visual melody from the notes "written" on the wall, piano keys and organ pipes.

The first place in the Art Object nomination was taken by the Good Evening Garden of the Ecoterra Design Landscape Bureau, dedicated to Povilas Vanagas and Margarita Drobyazko. The composition of this garden, which was based on a table surrounded by seats and flat artificial, but very realistic trees, sent visitors to the traditional landscapes of Latvia.

From the rest of the works submitted for the competition, I would like to highlight the project by Olga Rybkina, “Green Garden,” dedicated to the writer Darya Dontsova, which was designed in the spirit of minimalism; the project "Geometry of Dance", presented by the landscape studio "Kust & List" and dedicated to the athlete Margarita Drobyazko, in which a blue cube rotates at one of the corners around its axis against the background of a panorama of a large city and green balls on the trunk, as well as a project of a vintage garden from the company "Garden Representation", in which a partially collapsed purple wall, a bench, mirrored surfaces, a variety of junipers, roses and an aged path create a sense of scenography and artistry.