Malevich’s ‘arkhitekton coffin’ designed by Nikolai Suetin and Konstantin Rozhdestvensky
“Suetin and Rozhdestvensky together drew a design for the coffin and took it to a carpenter's workshop, where the carpenter simplified the project a little, because he could not make all the complex Suprematist profiles. The coffin was a" fallen sideways " Architecton, smooth on all sides. Each side of the coffin had six ledges: three ledges on the lid and three on the coffin. Suetin and Rozhdestvensky painted this coffin: the side of the coffin and the lids adjacent to the sides were green, the upper sides of the second ledge of the lid were black, and the rest was all white; on the upper white side, a black square was drawn at the heads, and a red circle was drawn at the feet. They did not draw the cross, so as not to show unambiguously religious symbols.” (source)
