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CROSBY STUDIOS (2014 - 2022) was the brainchild of artist Harry Nuriev, with bases in Moscow and New York. The studio’s ethos revolved around simplicity, with a focus on clean forms and harmonious proportions evident across their diverse portfolio spanning public spaces, interiors, furniture, and graphic design.

Harry Nuriev’s multidisciplinary approach bridged the worlds of art, design, fashion, and architecture, resulting in sculptural furniture collections showcased through immersive installations that seamlessly merged physical and digital realms. Embracing digital innovation, Nuriev led Crosby Studios into new territory, crafting digital experiences for esteemed brands like Valentino and Nike, while also gracing the covers of renowned publications such as Hypebeast Magazine, Vogue, and Architectural Digest.

Crosby Studios garnered widespread recognition, earning features in prominent publications like The New York Times, Vogue, Dwell, AD Spain, AD Germany, AD France, Elle Decor Italia, Elle Decoration UK, Dezeen, and ArchDaily, solidifying their status as a dynamic force in the design world during their tenure.

If asked to select one word to describe Patrick, I would resist and pick two. The first would be curiosity — a fundamental essential, to stimulate inquiry and rigour in all things, both great and small, of any era or region, type or surface. Even the most fleeting survey of this selection for sale is a celebration of innovation and of inspiration — an unerring eye for the unusually exceptional, or perhaps the exceptionally unusual. The chances are, that these are indeed discoveries that you have not yet realised that you needed to make. 

Mentor, would be my second word. If artefacts and objects articulate visual, cultural and historic language, then the fluency of skillful mentorship — to guide, nurture, describe and explain — releases the eloquence of murmuring histories. In this capacity Patrick is that most earnest and sincere of excellent narrators. If ever I had friends, clients or colleagues visiting New York looking for unusual inspiration, there was always the certainty that Patrick’s venues would offer them a glimpse of the hitherto unseen or the unusually seductive, always with the reassurance of the most fascinating story waiting to be told.