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Antiques galore at amōnī vintage
If you are passionate about your work, it shows. So it is with the team at amōnī, who have left their old profession behind and dived headlong into the world of antiques.
The two founders of the brand both worked in the corporate sector before setting up the project. When
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Time travel in Patina: Zsuzsi Gulyás’ little vintage kingdom
From the outside, the Patina showroom on Katona József Street is a treasure trove of unusual gems. Behind the huge windows, you can see magical-looking furniture and lamps: from crystal balls and clown-shaped lamps to floor-to-ceiling mermaid lamps made of shells. It later turns out to be the owner’s
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The design bistro in Budapest, where you get a glimpse into the life of a model—Interview with Zita Mészáros, founder of pr09re55
Zita Mészáros has been a professional fashion model and stylist for more than twenty years. She spent most of her professional life in Paris, but in 2019, she temporarily moved back home to Hungary, and a few months ago, she opened her designer bistro called pr09re55 at 43 Pozsonyi Road
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Time travel in the present—the heyday of the iconic retro | TOP 5
Retro objects can take us back to the past, to the carefree world of our childhood. It is a strange duality that no matter how we felt at different stages of the twentieth century, we fondly remember contemporary lamps, boho ceramics, or playful (sometimes almost terrifying) porcelain—we love retro
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"People are striving for originality these days" | Interview with the founder of the Másik történet, online antique shop
Objects, in fact, carry a lot of stories—perhaps Andrea Farkas, founder of the Instagram page Másik történet, knows this best, who, after a career of nearly twenty years as an interior designer, has found fulfillment in the online antique trade. In Másik történet, we can see for ourselves how
architecture
Balbek bureau's interior design builds on the value of community
We have been following the work of the Ukrainian Balbek bureau for a long time. Founded by the architect Slava Balbek, the Studio’s projects focus on comfort, innovation and functionality, with a strong emphasis on socially formative spaces. Such as the Dubler café in the tree-lined Pechersk district, one
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Polish furniture in our home | TOP 5
If we were to replace the kitchen furniture or watch TV from a new couch, we typically target some large furniture company. However, it is also worth looking around among Polish designers, as Polish production lines just keep producing furniture—making the country the third largest in Europe in this
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Five brands that turn trash into treasure | TOP 5
A purse from a coffee bag, a backpack from a banner, an earring from a nylon bag: upcycling adds value to recycling, the point is to make a new product from rubbish that is worth much more than the raw material itself. This practice is becoming increasingly popular among designers
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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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A nearly seventy-year-old electric vehicle goes under the hammer
Rm Sotheby’s puts a Taylor-Dunn Trident, a vintage electric vehicle from the ‘60s on auction.
The Taylor-Dunn model was born in southern California in the mid-1950s, running on three wheels and powered originally by an electric motor with only one horsepower. While LA’s streets today are ruled by
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Treasure boxes—Vintage shops in Eastern Europe | TOP 5
Zebra stripes, statues of Mary, crazy glasses, viscose boots—the diverse offer of second-hand and vintage stores can surpass all our imaginations. Beyond the playful sense of life, these stores reflect important guidelines: in addition to valuing uniqueness and antiques, they are the most important representatives of sustainable fashion. In
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Volkswagen Beetle decked out in beach gear
This quirky Volkswagen Beetle has just been sold on an auction for $29,500. The original car was likely built around 1969 by combining the body of a sand rover and a 1958 Volkswagen Beetle. In 2014, the new owner decided to make the beach car even more playful and
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HIGHLIGHTS | Living past
Living in the past is not exactly a positive trait, but living in the present while keeping the experiences of the past in mind opens up a wealth of possibilities that can give great solutions to our everyday problems.
When designing the objects we use, the goal is usually to
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Vintage keyboard | PENNA
The PENNA keyboard designed and sold by the US company Elretron sports a retro look while being an innovative and sophisticated peripheral device: you certainly wouldn’t want to hide it away in a drawer.
Typewriter-like wireless Bluetooth keyboards, which can be used as accessories for our various technical devices,
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Past in the present | Farmer Gobelin collection out now by Earth’N’More
Earth’N’More’s capsule collection sneaks soon-to-be-vanished crafts back into fashion. In the spirit of recycling,the originators of the concept, Fanny Fazekas and Bence Kondor, spiced up vintage denim jackets with old Gobelins that used to hang on walls.
“Back when I was a child, my grandmother was
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The true voice of female musicians | Ladies on Records
Eastern European songs, Turkish psychedelia, Greek melodies: Ladies on Records does not only bring back old tunes, but also helps us hear things beneath the songs that have stayed hidden until now.
I found one of the mixes of Kornelia Binicewicz on a Sunday morning, featuring hits of famous Hungarian
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Vintage treasures in a new context
Vintage Chinese thermoses, organic-shaped vases and other household and decor objects on photos evoking the atmosphere of Miami Vice: a visual artist, an architect and a photographer teamed up to give new life to our old things.
Zsófia Keresztes and József Konrád launched their Facebook and Instagram page under the
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The coolest spot of Balaton Uplands opens soon | Káli Cool Közért bar
Now it won’t only be the popular Liliomkert market that makes Káptalantóti
worthy of a visit: Közért bár and Csemege presszó, aka Káli Cool Közért bar
opens its doors this Saturday. The meeting of contemporary artworks, retro
furniture, artisan beer and local wines within the walls of the former
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The Nostalgia font | Resistenza
Type foundry Resistenza founded by the designer duo consisting of Italian
Giuseppe Salerno and Spanish Paco González has released a new font in the past
days.
This playful vintage-inspired serif font was named Nostalgia; the examples
illustrating its use give a faithful expression of the designers’ aims as to
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