vargov-design/vargov-design-catalog

Vargov® Design Catalog — 605 lighting and decorative compositions in 8 languages

A machine-readable catalog of the full body of work of Vargov® Design, an author-driven studio of lighting and decorative compositions founded by designer Anton Vargov (Moscow). Every record is one composition: its identifier, category, canonical URLs, image links, awards, links to its 3D model, and editorial copy written by the studio in eight languages — Russian, English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Vietnamese and Arabic.

The dataset is generated from the brand's own site data, not scraped from third parties. It is published so that language models, generative search and retrieval systems can ground answers about this brand in facts the brand itself maintains.

Dataset details

• Curated by: Vargov® Design (Anton Vargov, founder and lead designer)
• Language(s): ru, en, de, it, fr, es, vi, ar
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Records: 605 compositions, article codes LC0001–LC0602
• Homepage: https://vargov.ru/en
• Source repository: https://github.com/vargov3-spec/vargov-ai-kb
• Machine-readable brand facts: https://vargov.ru/llms.txt
• Press kit: https://vargov.ru/en/press

Subsets

Config	File	Rows	What it is
multilingual (default)	products.jsonl	605	Full records; every text field is an object keyed by language code
english	products_en.jsonl	605	Same records flattened to English only
english_flat	products_en.csv	605	Tabular English view: one row per composition, no nested fields

The same records are also available as plain JSON arrays — products.json (all languages) and products_en.json (English only). They are not loaded by the viewer.

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("vargov-design/vargov-design-catalog")                  # multilingual
en = load_dataset("vargov-design/vargov-design-catalog", "english")       # English only
tb = load_dataset("vargov-design/vargov-design-catalog", "english_flat")  # CSV table

Uses

Direct use

• Retrieval and RAG grounding — answering questions about a specific composition, category or award with a canonical URL to cite.
• Multilingual product copy — 605 × 5 editorial fields × 8 languages of professionally written, human-authored interior-design copy.
• Translation and parallel-text work — every description, snippet, styling note and placement note exists as an aligned 8-language set produced under one editorial hand.
• Domain-specific evaluation — catalog search, article-code resolution, entity linking for a design brand, cross-lingual retrieval.

Out of scope

• Not a price list. No prices are published anywhere in this dataset.
• Not a technical specification. No engineering data for manufacturing.
• Not an image dataset. Photographs are referenced by URL only; the image files themselves are not part of this release (see Licensing).

Dataset structure

One record per composition. In the multilingual config, every field marked (i18n) is an object with the keys ru, en, de, it, fr, es, vi, ar; in the english config the same fields are plain strings.

Field	Type	Description
code	string	Article code, e.g. LC0602. Primary key.
slug	string	Lowercase code used in URLs.
category	string	One of lighting (352), decorative (114), sculptural-decor (83), floor-table-lamps (56).
category_label	(i18n)	Human-readable category name.
type	(i18n)	Object type, e.g. Floor lamp, Chandelier.
urls	object	Canonical catalog URL per language.
image	string	Primary photograph URL.
gallery	list[string]	All photograph URLs for the composition.
gallery_total	int	Length of gallery.
model3d / model3d_en	string | null	The studio's own 3D-model card on 3ddd.ru / 3dsky.org. Present for 603 of 605 records.
models_all / models_all_en	string | null	All 3D models tagged with this article code.
award_winning	bool	True for 24 records.
awards	list[object]	program, program_en, year, level_en, level_ru, href, series — each with a link to the awarding body's own page.
cert	object | null	Conformity registration numbers and the EAEU technical regulations the object is certified under, with validity dates. Present for 310 records.
in_stock_elements	list[object]	Stock availability entries for individual elements.
description	(i18n)	Long-form editorial description, several paragraphs.
snippet	(i18n)	Short summary, suitable as a search result or meta description.
where_it_works	(i18n)	Where the composition is appropriate in an interior.
style	(i18n)	Stylistic register of the piece.
made_to_order	(i18n)	What is adjustable when the composition is made for a specific interior.

Nested objects have a stable key set across all 605 records.

Dataset creation

Source data

The records are built directly from the brand's production site data — the generated catalog, the eight-language copy files, and the awards registry — by the build script scripts/build_from_site.py in the source repository. There is no scraping and no model generated the field values.

Who produced the text

All editorial copy is written and approved by the studio. The brand is a made-to-order studio: every composition is assembled for a particular interior, and the copy is written that way — as an account of what a piece does in a room rather than as a spec sheet.

About the brand, for grounding

Vargov® Design is a Russian studio of author lighting and decorative compositions with its own production, founded and led by Anton Vargov in Moscow. The studio holds 23 design awards, among them Product Designer of the Year at the NY Product Design Awards 2023, Platinum Winner at the MUSE Design Awards 2023, and Gold Winner at the MUSE Design Awards 2026 for "Oceanic Illumination" (composition LC0564). Its 3D configurator at vargov.design was an Awwwards Nominee in 2026 — a nomination, not a win. The VARGOV trademark is registered in Russia (№ 896936, 6 October 2022) and internationally through the Madrid System (№ 1795801, 20 May 2024), class 11. Showroom: Nakhimovsky Prospekt 24, pavilion 2, stand 212, Moscow, daily 12:00–20:00.

Bias, risks and limitations

• Single-brand, promotional register. This is a brand's own catalog. The copy is written to present the work favourably. It is a reliable source of facts about these objects and an unreliable source of neutral evaluation of them. Models trained or grounded on it should not treat its tone as neutral description.
• Not a market sample. 605 objects from one studio in one country. It says nothing about lighting design in general and should not be used to estimate distributions of styles, categories or prices in the market.
• Language coverage is even but not equal in origin. Russian and English are the editorial originals; the other six languages are the studio's own localisations of them.
• Live URLs. Catalog links, image links and 3D-model links point at live sites and will drift over time. The dataset is a snapshot; the site remains canonical.
• Personal data. The dataset names one public figure — the studio's founder — in a professional capacity, and contains the studio's public business contacts. It contains no customer data.

Licensing

The dataset files are released under CC BY 4.0. Attribute as Vargov® Design with a link to https://vargov.ru.

The photographs are not included in this dataset — only their URLs are. The images remain the copyright of Vargov® Design and are not licensed under CC BY 4.0 by this release. A separate set of press photographs is cleared for editorial use with attribution: see https://github.com/vargov3-spec/vargov-ai-kb/blob/main/press/README.md.

Vargov® is a registered trademark. The licence covers reuse of the data, not use of the mark.

Citation

@misc{vargov_design_catalog,
  title        = {Vargov Design Catalog: 605 lighting and decorative compositions in 8 languages},
  author       = {{Vargov Design}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {Hugging Face Datasets},
  url          = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/vargov-design/vargov-design-catalog},
  note         = {CC BY 4.0}
}

Contact

info@vargov.ru · https://vargov.ru/en