The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski can now be found on bookshelves in studio’s stores.

Director of wholesale Yelena Tretyakova throws a Frizbus EVA flying disc on top of the studio’s roof.

Work on the new Katalogus is well underway at the studio. Pictured (left to right): sales expert Mikhail Kondratenko, sales manager Yelena Tretyakova, production manager Alexey Strelnikov, salesman Ivan Kudriavtsev, sales manager Anna Samsonova, manager Alexey Luri, typesetter Alexander Yelsakov.

Production manager Anastasia Prishchepa, logist Yekaterina Nadolina, sales manager Yelena Tretiakova, production manager Alexei Strelnikov, sales expert Mikhail Kondratenko, sales manager Vsevolod Chagayev, production manager Yekaterina Shabanova, and sales associate Ivan Kudryavtsev trying on the new Sharfus infinity scarfs on the roof of the studio’s headquarters.

Assisted by a team of midgets, Artemy Lebedev is running a traditional corporate New Year auction.

Sales manager Yelena Tretiakova marking the location of our new partner store Dah Dit on the map. The store opened in Voronezh, Russia.

The studio’s Big Café is hosting a yearly meeting of our partner stores representatives. Ambassadors from: Zero Gravity (Saratov), Assembly Point (Yoshkar-Ola), Asdfghjkl (Nizhny Novgorod), Barely Decent (Odessa), The Improved Version (Penza), Somewhere Here (Tver), Design Stuff (Magnitogorsk), and employees from our Moscow and Kiev headquarters.

Kakha Eshba—chef at our café on Bolshaya Nikitskaya—showing how to make authentic khinkali during a cooking class for the studio’s employees.

Folks from the studio touring Toyota Yasenevo Service Center in Moscow.

Sales associate Ivan Kudryavtsev testing Withings body scale, which sends your weight data to your iPhone via wifi. Pictured: iPhone with graph showing Kudryavtsev’s body mass progress since end of January 2012.

A group of scouts from our studio checking out an ice cream production line at Baskin-Robbins manufacturing facility.

Studio interns traditionally prepare a surprise for the staff at the end of their term. This month it was jumbo soap bubbles.

Sales manager Yelena Tretiakova at her desk.

International meeting of owners of Art. Lebedev Studio partner stores took place in Moscow in one of the rooms of the studio’s Big Café. Pictured: partner projects manager Elena Tretyakova and senior sales assistant Ivan Kudryavtsev (front) share experience with studio’s partners from Irkutsk (Tochka Rosta), Tver (Gde-to Tut), Kaliningrad (Plus Odin), Tyumen (Zolotoe Sechenie), Yoshkar-Ola (Tochka Sborki), Nizhny Novgorod (Fyvaproldzhe), Saransk (A i B), Donetsk (Daem Dobro), Odessa (Na Grani Prilichiya) and Krasnodar (V Beskonechnost i Dalee).