From Russia With Luxe

December 9, 2007

“i wanted to evoke the kind of craziness that animated Russia and Moscow some years back,” Mr. Starck explained, referring to the heady 1990s, when post-Soviet greed and lawlessness were at their peak. He created the interior as a kind of “film set” for an imaginary movie. “The scenario is simple,” Mr. Starck went on. “A band of hoodlums and thieves and bandits rob a museum and hide everything that they have stolen — furniture, paintings, artistic pieces — in a warehouse, where they meet up one evening for dinner and a sex party.”