Iryna Belan

After graduating from the Cherson Teachers’ Training College in Ukraine, Iryna attended the Faculty of Spatial Design at the British High School of Art and Design. Since 2005 she has worked as an interior designer and decorator. The Italian manufacturers Milano Bedding have produced one of her designs, the Booklet ottoman, for more than ten years. Iryna has been the editor of Salon Magazine Azerbaijan and assistant editor of the Ukrainian magazine Domus Design. Currently she is a member of the Union of Ukrainian Journalists and a free-lance journalist for the Ukrainian magazines Dom i Interier, Pragmatika and the Azerbaijani magazine Nargis. After graduating in copywriting at the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts, she has worked as a PR expert and art curator. She has participated in press tours to Salone del Mobile.Milano, BRAFA, Tbilisi Art Fair, Collectible Design, Brussels Design September, Designblok I Prague, and Warsaw Design Week.

Portrait by Rostislav Ripka