Master from Minsk creates amazing things in this style, however, about the title of his fashion destination Dmitry found out quite recently.
Big round glasses in a copper frame, a copper bracelet on hand, a phone in a copper case, which is an amazing design of buttons and levers, - about the hobby of the wisp in the guise of Dmitry Tikhonenko says a lot. True, the master of the trendy direction himself learned after he created many of his work from copper.
Dmitry's workshop officially engaged in the repair of household appliances. Modang refrigerators and electric stove are rather a hobby that has become a business card Tikhonenko. In a separate room, where Dmitry's work is, they are not allowed. Tikhonenko's ordinary clients would know what miracles he knows how to create, for sure they would be ash. We are talking, sitting outside the honey table, there is a copper plate, a copper coffee machine, microwave.
Metal passion began in the army, when served on the Northern Fleet in the Barents Sea. On the ship a lot of parts from copper that you regularly have to drag. Gradually, it turned into a habit. The first crafts from copper were nomoudered - decorations for the Demobel album: letters, ships ... And if you smoke even deeper, my father worked a lockout all my life, and it was so good in his business that I put the name of the name stamp on my products. It was considered the highest pilot on The plant, the details made by the hands of the Father, did not even have to be received.
After three years on Fleet, Dmitry immediately fell into the atmosphere of "Lidh Nineties". Like many young people at that time, they were engaged in buying and selling, and eventually became the owner of the workshop to repair household appliances, which is still doing to this day. In parallel, he began to collect antaround metal objects. Since it constantly had to work with household appliances, the master wanted to do something unusual for myself. The fact that the world serial manufacturers offered was not satisfied.
From my grandmother, I was left the working refrigerator, it was a pity to throw it, I decided to "update". The next was the microwave, after - the stove ... if someone rests in the bars, behind the billiard table, then I went to the workshop.
About what Steampunk is, Dmitry found out in 2011. A strikingly, before that, he transformed many household appliances units, even not representing what works in a certain style.
One day I once comes to email: the guys from Moscow saw my work and invited the steampunk festival. I answer them: the guys, you were mistaken, no punk ... already after figured out, I read the literature, I looked at the photo reports from the meetings of the steamed and understood: it's mine.
As you already, you probably understood, Dmitry Tikhonenko - a thorough man, so he soon created the Belarusian site dedicated to the verse, and, in fact, became one of the main proposals of this culture in our country, while remaining unique in its own way. If most steampars have a major goal - to create an image, a bout suit, then Dmitry has every thing he made, functions. On the neck, the masters hang protective glasses, or, as they are also called, "Gogla", on the belt - leather apron, you can constantly see it in such a machine, so it comes to the steampunk parties in everyday work clothes.
Each button, each lever with rare exception works and performs a specific function. Moreover, I try to make the thing not only beautiful, but also convenient, as well as maintainable. For this, for example, in the stove made a viewing window, opening which, you can see what is happening in the oven.
This is one of the first models of flat TVs. She had a traditional housing - silver plastic, and it did not suit me at all, as we have everything in the yellow metal. For more than a year, he dust in the box until I finally took it. Now TV in copper "case", all the workers buttons (their design was borrowed from wind musical instruments). The only poachoria on it is located next to the Kmerees keys, it's just a decoration. Then added to the TV cover for the DVD player, the columns made from the old "radio engineering". The columns on top in the form of the pattern are also workers. My friend is engaged in ripped acoustics, and I made them exactly in its drawings.
The coffee machine was created simultaneously with the TV and gradually developed into a large project. It was added to the bar counter, made on special order. The beverage containers are located on top. From the bottom of several shelves, each of which carries its specific function. The first is the copper tray, the utensils are stored on the second, and this dishes are heated by a special device.
And, of course, the phone. He all notice immediately. A few years ago, Olga's wife presented Dmitry Nokia 6670, which after a long and painstaking work turned into a real work of art.
The metal shields the signal, and most of all I had to tinker with the output of the antenna. But this problem was solved. The result is striking: each of the working buttons.
At each of the products, Dmitry puts the name stamp and attaches a special sign with the number in which several parameters important for it are immediately encrypted. The master decorate refrigerators, microwaves, hoods, coffee machines, TVs, washing ...
Today, the signs are available on more than hundreds of items, but to see them and acquire it is very difficult: most works master or give friends, or puts at home. There are exceptions. For example, Copper Joe Coffee Machine, refined by Tikhonenko, has been in recently in the club T.N.T. And recently "improved" his hands appliances appeared in the program "Apartment question". The representative of the famous brand, giving the stove, asked not to be seen the company's logo. Not because he did not like the work of Tikhonenko. On the contrary, they feared that consumers would begin to ask the same plates in the stores, and there, naturally, no.
A similar Restayl Plate, if you order it from the Russian master (which can be counted on the fingers), will cost about $ 10 thousand at least. Tikhonenko discussed about the "price price" refuses, says that most of the works shown are not sold, but at the same time recognizes that sometimes it makes something to order. So, for example, it works over the speakers that will appear in one of the metropolitan clubs.
Friends call me a happy man. Besides the fact that I have a favorite wife and children, I am a favorite hobby, which even brings some money. What else is needed to enjoy life?
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