Travel is the main theme in the interior of the apartment of Moscow fashion designer Tatyana Sudaryanto, director of the Sudaryanto design bureau. She has designed three collections since spring of last year, and they all reflect various voyages. She has also designed clothing for the Olympiisky equipment center and for the participants in the Fabrika Zvyozd (Star Factory) project.

"In the apartment’s design, you won’t see direct Oriental motifs, because I’m not obsessed with the East. I’m living in Moscow and not looking for exoticism in the East, but I’m absorbing this new world as a part of myself. Indonesia is my second home. My father was from there, and it’s a part of me that I discovered only recently," Sudaryanto said.

When designing her Vayang Purvo collection, for example, she wanted to imagine how a European would look if he or she reached into different cultures and tried different traditions and clothing. Her own experience and her travels to Java, her father’s native island, blends into the collection. This explains why Indonesian musical instruments and dolls fit so well in the same room as do a collection of teddy bears from around the world, books on modern art and pictures from Lolita Lempicka.

The 45-sq.-meter one-room apartment with a loggia and storeroom used to be divided into two parts: The living space and the studio. Now that Sudaryanto has her own office and showroom, only her desk and the loggia, where she keeps pieces of cloth, show that she is a fashion designer.

"The table has a central place in the apartment," Sudaryanto said. "It’s handmade – a big wooden board on large piles of magazines. You can use it for doing anything – cutting, sewing, drawing…" A good idea indeed: If inspiration seems lacking, all that’s needed is to pull a magazine from the pile and leaf through it until an idea comes.

Aside from the table, the other things that stand out are the teddy bears from different countries including Indonesia, England and Germany. Sudaryanto found it hard to say exactly how many teddies she has in her collection. "I’ve lost count," she said. "I stopped collecting them when I got my dog, Scotch the Scotch terrier."

The little black terrier certainly makes for entertainment. Every time the photographer found an interesting angle, the dog would start trying to distract him, as if telling him that he was the real attraction, and not the apartment.

As well as the teddies, old photographs and books about fashion also decorate the little apartment. "I don’t collect books, I read them and then give them to my friends," Sudaryanto said. The apartment only has one room, but the whirl of positive emotions it gives off has the effect of making the space seem a lot bigger. "I always wanted my home to be a place full of only positive emotions.