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The co-founders and creative inspirations behind their production’s lighting and decor brand, YALANZHI OBJECTS, are the couple Julia and Yevhen Melnychenko. Each piece of work embodies ideas of naturalness, sustainability, and timelessness. Their partnership is perfectly balanced: Julia focuses on product development and brand vision as a designer, while Yevgen brings everything to life and scales it up. Julia has dedicated herself to object design over the last 15 years of her career. Julia and Yevgen regularly present the creative essence of their collections at world-renowned exhibitions such as Collectible, Maison & Objet, Decorex, DDW, Paper Inside, Contemporania, Revelations, and more.

A distinctive feature of Julia and Yevhen’s work is their innovative desire to experiment with biomaterials, seeking forms and textures that tease and deceive the viewer.

In addition to experimenting with cellulose and clay, the authors also work with living biomaterials, growing various fungi for new projects. There is something archaic and ancient in these clay and cellulose textures, their warm colors, and smooth shapes, which can be read by Ukrainians and people in general.

In the vision of the artists, it is easy to read their soft but strong nature, one that avoids breaks, straight angles, shadows, and ambiguity. One that even in creativity, seeks stability in cultural and production dimensions. Julia also says, “YALANZHI OBJECTS products should have temporal continuity, providing value for future generations.”

Projecting the future through the prism of the past, Julia and Yevhen create unique objects with strong character and history, which do not need to fit into a space – they create it with their presence. They believe true design is about creating meanings, stories, and emotions that remain in people’s hearts with each object. Therefore, they approach each new object with respect for the past, responsibility for the future, and endless love for the art of creating light.