Design Center ARTPLAY
Former pressure-gauge and valve factory turned sprawling design and architecture cluster of studios and showrooms.
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This guide to Design Center ARTPLAY in Moscow follows a valve and pressure-gauge factory founded in 1886 by Fyodor Gakental, a merchant from Podolsk who built his fortune on Russia's railway boom. It traces the factory's rise, a workforce of over five hundred and a gold medal at the 1896 Nizhny Novgorod exhibition, through the revolution that swept it from his hands and sent him out of the country for good. Look up at the tall factory windows, built to light workbenches rather than the studios below them now.
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