Decorative Art of the USSR (Декоративное искусство СССР) was an influential monthly magazine dedicated to art, design, and material culture that was published in Moscow from 1957 to 1991. The premier publication of the Union of Artists of the USSR, it functioned as a platform for industrial design, interior decor, crafts, folk art, and monumental and decorative architecture, tracking the evolution of mid-century modernism and late-Soviet brutalism through the unique cultural lenses of fifteen ethnically and stylistically diverse Soviet republics. Its editorial synthesis of progressive ideation and applied art over more than three decades—from postwar practicalism to Perestroika-era conceptualism—forms the basis for a new taxonomy of Soviet design informed by the theorists and practitioners whose work fueled the official art economy of the late USSR.
Yelena McLane, PhD, is an associate professor in the School of Design at Florida State University. She is a design researcher, educator, and practitioner whose work explores the relationships between interior spatial configurations and human experiences across educational, cultural, and residential environments. McLane’s research employs a mixed-methods approach that integrates quantitative spatial analysis with qualitative inquiry to examine how interior environments influence perception, behavior, identity, and wellbeing. A central focus of her current scholarship is housing insecurity and trauma-informed design. She is coauthor of Homelessness and the Built Environment: Designing for Unhoused Persons (2022), which investigates how architectural and interior design strategies in shelters and supportive housing shape dignity, recovery, and self-identity. She also serves as the program lead for Design Resources for Homelessness, a nonprofit initiative dedicated to advancing research-based and socially responsible housing design. Object Labs
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