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Here’s how you read | Hype&Hyper’s most read articles this year
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 the life of Hype&Hyper. Architecture, gastronomy, local values, design and even more colorful, diverse topics blend every day on the website—now we’
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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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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 overtones and general denial, it also permeates our relationship with our objects and electronic devices, even if it is not, in most cases, consciously
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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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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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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 of the Object Fetish series is, indeed, related to the solar system’s sixth planet. In this year’s first episode, we
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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 on HYPEANDHYPER this year featuring Hungarian projects. Check out the list and read your favorites again!
Object Fetish warm-up! – In pursuit of the
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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 pots available in various shapes and sizes came from: “jénai” (Hungarian for denoting something originating from Jena, Germany – the translator’s note). One thing not
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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
I met Gyula Ernyey back in February, at the restaurant
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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 juice on the plate. The small plate, similarly to the portion plates used
for serving soup and the main course, is made of snow-white
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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
emblematic objects. Until then, here is a brief yet relevant investigation as a
warm-up.
Written by Piroska Novák
In the past few weeks, many
A weboldal sütiket (cookie-kat) használ, hogy biztonságos böngészés mellett a legjobb felhasználói élményt nyújtsa.