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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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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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Ceramics, now!
What are the trends in ceramic design today? What should we look out for when buying a bowl, plate, or another ceramic object from a designer brand? How much can we believe the fancy pictures we see on Instagram? We asked Piroska Novák, design and art theoretician, curator at the
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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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Beyond small vases – The dimensions of ceramic artist Enikő Kontor
After four years, Enikő Kontor has once again opened a solo exhibition. The most of us know the ceramic artist for her unique, characteristic, rustically frisky and loveable small vases, mugs, jugs and pots from the shelves of design stores in Budapest. However, Enikő Kontor also has another side: an
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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
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The casket of Korean culture
Recently, we can hear and read about South Korea the most in relation to the
sweeping success of the movie Parasite at the Oscar gala, but it is also worth
getting to know more fields of Korean art and transmission of culture, for
example through the exhibitions of the Korean