Victoria Yakusha

Yakusha is a multidisciplinary studio founded in Kyiv by the Ukrainian architect, designer and artist Victoria Yakusha in 2006. It works across architecture, interiors and creative direction, and it is home to FAINA, its own furniture, lighting and decor brand rooted in Ukrainian craft. The practice calls its approach live design, later defined as live minimalism: laconic forms in earth and breathing materials, made with age-old techniques.

The studio lists locations in Kyiv, Antwerp and Miami, where the FAINA Gallery occupies a 500-year-old building, and has designed houses, bars and restaurants, retail interiors and exhibitions. Recognition includes Yakusha’s place among Dezeen’s 50 powerful women in design, the Dezeen Awards public vote for FAINA in 2021, and Istetyka, the first Ukrainian project to win a Dezeen Award in the bars and restaurants category.