Occasional table by Rita Koralevics from the Paper-up Collection, as seen Magyar Design, Otthon Design Budapest 2024 The first thing that drew us to Paper-Up a.k.a Rita Koralevics' occasional table was the construction: the small wooden batons on the side implying it was possibly worth taking a closer look. So we did. And it very much was. Didn't disappoint. Revealing as it did a deliciously simple, efficient, unhurried, construction principle that actively contributes to not only the
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Components of the Bold collection by András Kerékgyártó for Brave Home, as seen at Magyar Design, Otthon Design Budapest 2024 András Kerékgyártó wasn't the first Hungarian designer whose work we saw, that would have been Marcel Breuer, but András is, arguably, that active Hungarian designer who has featured most often in these dispatches. A position achieved not on account of any formal legal agreement, just to clarify, but simply because he invariably produces good, interesting work worthy
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Polc íróasztallal by Woodoo, as seen at Magyar Design, Otthon Design Budapest 2024 Budapest, indeed Hungary as a whole, was an important centre of that which today is known as Art Nouveau, or Szecesszió to be more precise, if an expression of Art Nouveau, Szecesszió, that all too often tends to get overlooked by the expression of if its near neighbour Vienna. But a Szecesszió which one can't overlook walking through and around Budapest. Nor can one overlook Szecesszió standing in the
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