(jiří macek) One of the most interesting contemporary designers (and our favourites), Shay Alkalay and Yael Mer, a.k.a. Raw Edges, whom visitors had an opportunity to see at Designblok two years ago, transform reality by means of ordinary miracles. In their case, everything seems to have started as a game. For instance, take a belt and start bending it.   ...more

(jiří macek) Two collaborators from the Paris-based studio of Arik Levy, Lucie Koldová and Dan Yeffet, presented their first joint Connection collection at Designblok in Prague. There were inspirational lines running across Europe among the lights, tables, and shelves, which emanated simplicity and peace in the result.   ...more

(jiří macek) Even though Daniel Libeskind makes excursions outside the field of architecture only very rarely, he always reassures us that architecture has no borders. Last year, he presented a coffee set, which looked like an urbanistic design in the Milan showroom by Saway & Moroni. This year, he has presented the Torq chair and table, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci.  ...more

(jiří macek) The Scrigno cabinets, designed by the Brazilian duo of designers for the company of Edra, represent a crystalline grouping of dreams that are difficult to depict. One will be dazzled by the laser-cut reflexive acrylate broken into segments. The shape of the cabinets is hard to define; it keeps coming forth and vanishing.   ...more

(jiří macek) When reporting about diploma works, we must mention the most appraised diploma work at the AAAD in Prague – a modest and delicate furniture collection designed by Boris Klimek from the studio led by František Burian in Zlín. Apart from the obligatory axe, the collection also encompassed pastureland poetics.   ...more

(jiří macek) Konstantin Grcic did not allow himself to rest this year and went on developing the eternal theme of the chair. His latest piece, designed for the Spanish brand of bd Barcelona, plays with the seat on a dining chair while tilting it considerably. Thus, when one looks at it from the other side, one can see in it a symbol of liberation of cinema and theatre seats. Thanks to Grcic, the tip-up seats can go wherever they want.   ...more

(jiří macek) Young Swedish designer Martin Vallin has designed a chair as a very private spot for the Italian brand of Cappellini. Thus, he has introduced the Baltic breeze into the hot Italian summer.   ...more

(jiří macek) I really like the WrongWoods dresser with a pop-art picture of wood in place of veneer, especially its wild combination of violet and yellow. The wood, which is in fact only particleboard, is full of passion. In the meantime, Richard Wood and Sebastian Wrong have complemented the catalogue of Established and Sons with similarly illusive chairs, sofas, and carpets made from bricks and parquets. However, one can never be sure.   ...more

(jiří macek) Sometimes a person hears a tune out of the window when time, the sun, and the wind come together at the right moment that causes its intensity to remain impressed in their mind forever. It is so simple with things as well. The chairs designed by Sebastian Wrong for the brand of Established and Sons have the sun, wind, and time in balance. They are light, simple, and beautiful.   ...more

(jiří macek) The Italian company of Serralunga has presented two new pieces designed by Matteo Bazzicalupo and Raffaella Mangiarotti from the Italian studio of Deepdesign. Both pieces reach back into the past in a special, yet simple and logical manner. Thanks to them, summer can have one more dimension this year.   ...more