
Artem Begishev
Director General and Chief Designer at URFO LLC
Artem is an architect. He is in charge of industrial design and the development of landscaping items. He was involved in the subject since childhood — his father designed and produced dummies for headdresses made of fur, and the future architect helped him. After 12 years of architectural practice and work in leading studios in Krasnoyarsk, he founded the Coolhaus furniture design studio, which body of work has been constantly seen among the nominees of prestigious awards since 2014. The brand designs public and private spaces, private architectural projects, interior decor items, street furniture and lighting. The studio has an extensive portfolio. It includes successfully completed projects, such as street navigation stands in Yeniseisk, benches on the embankment in Krasnoyarsk, a pavilion at the Zeleniy Festival, furniture for the Kamenka cultural space, street furniture for the right-bank and left-bank embankments of Krasnoyarsk, Pushkin Square. Tatlin Mono, a widely read magazine on architecture, design and construction industry, included Artem in the list of 48 best young architects of Russia.