Budapest Design Week 2024, Szia!

Much as with the narrator of Half Man Half Biscuit’s ‘I was a teenage armchair Honvéd fan’ we’ve also long “dreamt about a love affair in far-off Budapest”.

Unlike said narrator however our ongoing yearning doesn’t revolve around a football club in the Kispest district of the city whose black an red was once worn by the likes of Grosics Gyula, Kocsis Sándor, Bozsik József or Puskás Ferenc, but revolve around design.

Nor are we hankering after a golden age of either Hungarian football or Hungarian design, entertaining and informative as both unquestionably are, rather our focus is very much contemporary design in and from Hungary.

But perhaps the decisive difference between us and HMHB’s nostalgic narrator is that while he is content to sit passively in an armchair, we actively search for that design, we actively search for a differentiated interpretation, re-imagination, of an ‘armchair’, on the streets of Budapest.

Or did….. then came Covid and the Hungarian capital was as far removed as the years when Grosics, Kocsis, Bozsik, Puskás et al made Budapest a by-word for contemporary football.

2024 we’re back, have already been back. Several times. And are back once again for the annual Budapest Design Week……