Team and Project

Ever since we star­ted in 2007, we have worked as a small web­site team con­sist­ing of three people: Maria Kur­o­lapnik, An­dre Kuzmicheff, and An­drey Kosar­ev. Maria Kur­o­lapnik is the ex­ec­ut­ive, mar­ket­ing, and sales man­ager. She handles all the com­mu­nic­a­tions with cli­ents and artists, pro­cesses all the or­ders and pur­chases, and rep­res­ents our boutique in all the on­line and off­line events and places. An­dre Kuzmicheff is the web­site, fea­ture, and con­tent man­ager. He en­sures that the web­site is in good func­tion­al con­di­tion and present­able ap­pear­ance. An­dre also over­sees and plans fu­ture con­tent and fea­tures for our web­site. And An­drey Kosar­ev is the site sys­tem ad­min­is­trat­or re­spons­ible for the web­site func­tion­ing, avail­ab­il­ity, and se­cur­ity.

After launch­ing two web­sites, each of which lacked in­form­a­tion and fea­tures we were so eager to de­liv­er, we have real­ized the need for a lar­ger team of de­sign­ers and de­ve­lopers to carry out such a project and de­liv­er everything we en­vi­sioned. After about two months of re­search, we have teamed up with great de­vel­op­ment teams and freel­ance artists. We have been quite sur­prised to have 16 people work­ing on this project and do­ing it pro­fes­sion­ally and pro­duct­ively. We have had a great time work­ing with all these people, and we have gen­er­ated and im­ple­men­ted many in­ter­est­ing ideas on this web­site, while work­ing to­geth­er. We ap­pre­ci­ate the time, en­ergy, and ded­ic­a­tion our de­ve­lopers have in­ves­ted at every step of the project.

Our artists and their works are truly unique and match­less. Each artist presen­ted in our gal­lery has his own artist­ic style, pro­duc­tion ap­proach, and even tools design. Each cre­ates fas­cin­at­ing things and fas­cin­ates him­self in know­ledge of pro­duc­tion tech­niques and his­tor­ic­al as­pects of black­smith­ing, gold­smith­ing, and en­grav­ing. Each ded­ic­ates him­self com­pletely to the art and craft of cre­at­ing, and each tends to in­vest all the avail­able time in that act­iv­ity.

What we have learned in the last three years are two in­ter­est­ing things. First, our vis­it­ors, view­ers, and cli­ents like to come to us and have a pos­it­ive ex­per­i­en­ce wheth­er or­der­ing from us or ex­press­ing gen­er­al in­terest. Second, our artists like to be com­pletely ded­ic­ated to their designs and cre­ations, and they prefer to be able to deal with or­gan­iz­a­tion­al and com­mer­cial tasks in as little time as pos­sible.

Our project is an at­tempt to in­tro­duce and pro­mote our unique artists and their fas­cin­at­ing works to all the people in the world. We have taken an en­deavor to cre­ate a place that sat­is­fies all the aes­thet­ic needs of our vis­it­ors and that al­lows our artists to keep fo­cused on the artist­ic as­pects of their work rather than on the or­gan­iz­a­tion­al ones. We are ex­cited with our cur­rent achieve­ments, and we are already mak­ing notes for fu­ture ad­di­tions and im­prove­ments.