The year 2021 also held a number of surprises, ideas and opportunities for the magazine: new surfaces, new series, new faces and new themes appeared in
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Object Fetish Part 10 | Floor lamp by Tibor Házi
The selection of our Object Fetish series did not feature before the work of the Munkácsy Mihály Prize-winning glass designer Tibor Házi. However, as the collections
Animism reloaded—Object fetish on an advanced level
Animism has been present in human life since eternity, often referred to as the most primitive belief system, a kind of spiritual fad. Despite the negative
Object Fetish Part 9 | The objects of Eva Zeisel
In the history of 20th-century design, along with Marcell Breuer, László Moholy-Nagy and Ernő Rubik, Eva Zeisel, or Zeisel Éva is known worldwide. But do we
Object Fetish Part 8 | The objects of Sándor Borz Kováts
The designer leads the way, the industry drops behind—the usual story. No one actually used Borz Kováts’ armchair, yet it still made it into the big
Object Fetish Part 7 | The “Felhő” lamp family
The silvery, glimmering lamps boasting simple shapes, and floating like clouds were born in the seventies, and are still considered a curiosity today. Why? We’ll tell you.
Object Fetish Part 6 | The rings of Saturnus
No, this is not an essay on astronomy, and not even a review on W. G. Sebald’s novel of the same title[1]. Nevertheless, the sixth part
Best of HYPE 2020
As a way of closing this anything-but-easy year blown apart by the pandemic, our team has compiled the shortlist of the Best of the Best articles released
Object Fetish Part 5 | Termover heatproof dish set
The flame-resistant dishes frequently referred to as the dream of housewives once came from the GDR – this is where the name of these glass baking
Object Fetish Part 4 | Milk pourer made of plastic
The story of one of the most popular (now retro) household items made of plastic in the 1970s: the object serving the purpose of storing and
Object Fetish Part 3 | UNISET-212 commercial tableware, the timeless
Tomato soup with alphabet pasta getting cold, schnitzel with sticky rice and peas, the faded and soaked-out pieces of canned cherry, floating in a pink, sugary
Object fetish warm-up! – In pursuit of the coronavirus set
The Object Fetish series that debuted in spring 2019 will launch again soon, in which design theorists Kitti Mayer and Piroska Novák will go after the
