S+S interior design and architecture studio faced a challenge to create a stylistically dynamic and modern design for a children’s café Cosmos located at the temple of Moscow Soviet trade and exhibition – VDNKH Cosmos pavilion. This tremendous building is a proper cultural heritage with marble floors and pompous groin vault ceilings, which is genuinely a great space for inspiration and creativity but can hardly fit a children’s place concept.

To avoid a classical perception and realization of cosmic space theme, in their notable manner, S+S team applied some principles and patterns of a postmodern archaic Memphis Group’s style, smartly contrasting its vibrant colours and exotic elements such as flying art objects, with solid beliefs, rough shapes and massive architecture of a bygone era. With this notion, the past was carefully challenged, and the modern design found its niche among untouched curves of the elegant ceilings.