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Enjoying life in stunning posters | Art deco Budapest. Posters, Lifestyle and the City
You rarely see a poster exhibition in Hungary, and even less rarely see a large-scale poster exhibition like the Art deco Budapest. Posters, Lifestyle and the City (1925-1938) at the Hungarian National Gallery. It is almost ten years since visitors have been able to enjoy such a high-volume exhibition. At
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Without her, we would have had a much emptier childhood. In terms of storybooks, at least. | The legacy of Kató Lukáts
Kató Lukáts was a star designer. In her day, she made book illustrations, packaging designs and posters (but even furniture!) for a wide variety of customers. The Viennese still receive Altmann & Kühne candies in her boxes to this day. We can now get a taste of her rich oeuvre at
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Object Fetish EXTRA | Kitchen Program for Prefabricated Houses
How to make a small kitchen viable? What existing and newly designed objects are needed to carry out kitchen operations with as little annoyance as possible, or even more: making cooking, eating or even just preparing a cup of tea a pleasure? These were, among others, some of the questions
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The sacred images of the Museum of Applied Arts inspired the new collection of Romani Design
In the project of the Museum of Applied Arts, unusual everyday dialogues are born: in the series In Circulation, contemporary designers reflect on each work of art in the museum’s collection, thus creating an encounter where the past and the present are intertwined. The current guest of the series
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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 of the Museum of Applied Arts continue to grow, even with the major reconstruction and reopening works, the latest episode is about a truly
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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 know at home, who she was at all? Born as Amália Éva Stricker in Budapest in 1906, the designer’s long career culminating in
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Nature reigns in the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna
Live trees and blackened pines rescued from fire cover the interior of the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. The installation created by Superflux, entitled Invocation for Hope, is part of the Vienna Biennale for Change 2021.
As part of the exhibition, Superflux has installed more than four hundred trees
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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 book of Hungarian design, and it could have accomplished even more. This time, we focus on the Vargánya and the “red Ferrari of
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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.
Vintage fans might have already encountered the members of the “Felhő” (meaning “cloud” in Hungarian) lamp family without ever knowing that it
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Museum of Applied Arts acquires contemporary jewelry pieces
Ten pieces made by Hungarian contemporary jewelry designers have been added to the metalwork collection of the Museum of Applied Arts this year. Pieces of jewelers including Fruzsi Fekete, Sapi Szilágyi and Kinga Huber made it into the museum’s collection.
Ráth György Villa opened its doors again in the
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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 pouring bagged milk
and that of its designers.
Written by Piroska Novák
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