LIKA ATELIER
Lika Atelier is the current chapter of Liana Yaroslavsky’s practice in collectible design.
For many years, she worked and exhibited under her own name, developing sculptural furniture and lighting shown internationally in galleries, fairs, and museum contexts.
Lika Atelier does not replace that body of work. It expands it.
The name Lika comes from a lifelong nickname, something lighter and more instinctive. It also echoes the Slavic word lik, meaning image, presence, and essence. The shift in name marks a subtle transformation. The work remains rooted in the same material inquiry, but the studio becomes a more open and collaborative platform.
The practice develops sculptural objects conceived as individual works or in small, controlled editions. Each piece holds tension between weight and delicacy, permanence and transformation, structure and intuition.
Founded in Mexico City, yet shaped by a life lived across cultures and cities, the studio reflects movement rather than geography. Influence comes from displacement, memory, and lived experience, not from a single location.
Rather than a departure, Lika Atelier represents a natural evolution of the practice
For many years, she worked and exhibited under her own name, developing sculptural furniture and lighting shown internationally in galleries, fairs, and museum contexts.
Lika Atelier does not replace that body of work. It expands it.
The name Lika comes from a lifelong nickname, something lighter and more instinctive. It also echoes the Slavic word lik, meaning image, presence, and essence. The shift in name marks a subtle transformation. The work remains rooted in the same material inquiry, but the studio becomes a more open and collaborative platform.
The practice develops sculptural objects conceived as individual works or in small, controlled editions. Each piece holds tension between weight and delicacy, permanence and transformation, structure and intuition.
Founded in Mexico City, yet shaped by a life lived across cultures and cities, the studio reflects movement rather than geography. Influence comes from displacement, memory, and lived experience, not from a single location.
Rather than a departure, Lika Atelier represents a natural evolution of the practice
Lika Atelier is the current chapter of Liana Yaroslavsky’s practice in collectible design.
For many years, she worked and exhibited under her own name, developing sculptural furniture and lighting shown internationally in galleries, fairs, and museum contexts. Lika Atelier does not replace that body of work. It expands it.
The name Lika comes from a lifelong nickname, something lighter and more instinctive. It also echoes the Slavic word lik, meaning image, presence, and essence. The shift in name marks a subtle transformation. The work remains rooted in the same material inquiry, but the studio becomes a more open and collaborative platform.
The practice develops sculptural objects conceived as individual works or in small, controlled editions. Each piece holds tension between weight and delicacy, permanence and transformation, structure and intuition.
Founded in Mexico City, yet shaped by a life lived across cultures and cities, the studio reflects movement rather than geography. Influence comes from displacement, memory, and lived experience, not from a single location.
Rather than a departure, Lika Atelier represents a natural evolution of the practice.
FOUNDER AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Liana Yaroslavsky was born in St. Petersburg and has lived and worked across Israel, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, and Mexico City. This movement between cultures and landscapes continues to shape her way of thinking and creating.
She studied sculpture, painting, and design at Parsons School of Design in New York before expanding her practice into interiors, lighting, and collectible furniture.
Her work moves between object and narrative, treating form as a carrier of memory and emotion rather than function alone. Over the years, her pieces have been exhibited internationally and are included in private and public collections, including the Shanghai Museum of Glass, with presentations across Europe, the United States, and Mexico.
While Lika Atelier marks a new chapter, the underlying inquiry remains consistent: a search for balance between contradiction and harmony, weight and lightness, intimacy and scale.
Liana Yaroslavsky was born in St. Petersburg and has lived and worked across Israel, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, and Mexico City. This movement between cultures and landscapes continues to shape her way of thinking and creating.
She studied sculpture, painting, and design at Parsons School of Design in New York before expanding her practice into interiors, lighting, and collectible furniture.
Her work moves between object and narrative, treating form as a carrier of memory and emotion rather than function alone. Over the years, her pieces have been exhibited internationally and are included in private and public collections, including the Shanghai Museum of Glass, with presentations across Europe, the United States, and Mexico. While Lika Atelier marks a new chapter, the underlying inquiry remains consistent: a search for balance between contradiction and harmony, weight and lightness, intimacy and scale.
She studied sculpture, painting, and design at Parsons School of Design in New York before expanding her practice into interiors, lighting, and collectible furniture.
Her work moves between object and narrative, treating form as a carrier of memory and emotion rather than function alone. Over the years, her pieces have been exhibited internationally and are included in private and public collections, including the Shanghai Museum of Glass, with presentations across Europe, the United States, and Mexico. While Lika Atelier marks a new chapter, the underlying inquiry remains consistent: a search for balance between contradiction and harmony, weight and lightness, intimacy and scale.