Inspirational Interview With Maria Zhukova From MMZ Project

Maria Zhukova

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MMZ Project architectural bureau and interior design by Maria Zhukova. With a focus on Planning and concept of the interior design service, the bureau has lots of worldwide projects.

Interior Design Magazines had the opportunity to interview the founder of MMZ Project, Maria Zhukova, and we will share everything with you today. Enjoy!

Career

Maria Zhukova get involved with the interior design industry when she finished the last class of a school in Japan, she was very fond of hospitality, hotels, and retailers, and also, she was crazy about architecture. After graduation from the Moscow Architectural Institute, it was clear to her that she has a great opportunity to combine these hobbies. So MMZ Project Architectural Bureau deals with the public interior of various profiles in different cities and countries.

Maria Zhukova and MMZ Project projects need always to have some kind of art or point of attraction. Her philosophy on design is the ‘creation of extraordinary comfortable interiors’.

‘I do not have a division of work time or out of work. It’s part of me and my everyday life.
The favorite moment is to get to a new construction site, for example, a concrete some old tired project, and already start at the first meeting to visualize and fill with ideas of what the project can become.’ – said Maria Zhukova.

Inspiration

Architecture Biennal Venezia, Maison et Object Paris, I Saloni Milan, and High Point USA are the major international events that Maria Zhukova attends and follows to get the novelties.

All the artists need some inspiration to work, and interior designers are artists too. For Maria Zhukova, inspiration comes from travel and exhibitions of any format!

Also, if she had to pick some project around the world that wish was made for her, Maria Zhukova would choose the Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum as an architectural project and the Proper hotel of Los Angeles as an interior design project!

Projects

For Maria Zhukova, one of the most important components to perfect chemistry between her and their clients to achieve the best results is, before starting, to discuss the projects and details, they meet, talk about anything, painting the travels of life, and everything becomes immediately clear whether they will work further or not.

About work with teams in interior design, Maria Zhukova thinks that, in public interiors, she is dealing with, because it’s necessary different specialists, decorators, architects, designers, engineers. A person alone could hardly implement a large project.

Future

About the future, Maria Zhukova and MMZ Project are preparing the opening of a Peruvian restaurant in Moscow with a foreign chef. This is a new project in its own format for Moscow. Also, they are working on three extraordinary concepts and, one thing she can say is that the project is being developed with a team from Japan.