Nothing is as it seems in Home-Made. All the artefacts are the products of need, not design, in a country where for decades many essential items have been impossible to come by; a place where a construction of unwanted metal forks might serve as a TV aerial, or where a street sign might become a snow shovel.
The Guardian

There may be no better document of the phenomenon of the handmade object than Home-Made. The book gathers objects from over fifty years that represent individuality triumphing over the mainstream, disposable culture rampant today.
Frieze

One of the most pleasing things about this book is the light it sheds on Soviet citizens’ real preoccupations – how to amuse your children while they are eating their dinner (a bubble wand), how to keep your fishing bait dry (an ingenious little box), or how to soothe a sore back (a back massager made out of an abacus). Home-Made achieves something unmatched by few conventional histories – a vivid and moving picture of real life behind the Iron Curtain.
The Telegraph

Personal, innovative, occasionally heart-breaking, there is real depth in these pages. A profound critique of our throw-away culture. 
Financial Times

The items in this elegant little book evoke a world in swift transition, in which these modest inventions loom large for a while – universal ephemera, destined to be soon lost or thrown away as circumstances changed, but preserved in this collection for their evocative power.
James Fenton in The Guardian

Home-Made features a wide range of characters. There is a foul-mouthed farmer from the Kaluga region who made a whip of old belts to scare his cattle. Then there is an arty young Moscovite who plays a guitar fashioned from pieces of wood because ‘the sound it makes is wild – you can never tell what it’ll do next.’
The Moscow Times