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"To me, Das Haus was a complex project which gave me a significant chance to design a concept of living in my own way and, simultaneously, to supplement it with either newly designed objects or objects close to me. The nine months of work and the ensuing enormous influx of creative energy and inspiration gave birth to a new series of lights and furniture. It was an exciting ride from the beginning to the end. I enjoyed the absolute freedom and the enthusiasm of all the people involved; the new opportunities were to arrive soon and, despite the many demanding moments, it was absolutely worth it!"

This is how Lucie views the prevailing emotions linked with the exceptional project with a one-year distance of time. The project is a great and unprecedented success of Czech design, since it was the first time ever when the January IMM Cologne international furniture festival entrusted the design of a conceptual installation to a Czech artist. The most successful and admired item was the Chips lounge chair, re-employing the traditional technology of hand-bent wood developed by the Czech company TON. Its dominant feature is a lightweight backrest in the shape of a potato chips, which simultaneously forms one of the three bases. Its lightness contrasts with the massive seat equipped with a variable backrest cushion.

The modular sofa, Link, resulted from the cooperation with the Croatian company Prostoria. Yet another new furniture item is the Blossom upholstered object, the production of which was assumed by the German company Käfer & Hummel. It is in a shape of a small island and can thus be used for both sitting and lying, and since the handrests reach as far as under the seat, its mass looks as if levitating. The Czech brand Brokis then served as an umbrella of the production of new lights.

Apart from the concept of the two-meter Sparkles, it was the suspended spherical lights with matt core, Big One, and the almost jewellery-like Jack-O'Lantern, formed by a grille with a spherical light source wedged into it. It also exists in a recently presented table version.

Danica Kovářová

In 2016, Lucie Koldová opened the door to more yet unexplored spheres in her work. And, like several years ago, when she began with glass despite having no previous experience at all, she has again managed to cope amazingly with new subjects and materials. This especially concerns the hand sewn-in carpets and plastic accessories of the collection Flint, created for the brand Lexon. The plastic, inspired by the shape of flint, literally begs to be weighed in one's hand and stroked, equally as our predecessors did with the worked stone. Lucie did not approach the hand-tufted carpets Brush for the French brand Chevalier edition in a traditional way, either. Gambling on a hand-made sketch, she "layered" the individual colors as if adding more and more brushstrokes in order to arrive at a 3D effect.

And glass? As far as glass is concerned, Lucie – in her role of the creative director of the Brokis brand - extended the range of the Janštejn glassworks with the collection Puro (named after the Spanish expression for a cigar, "puro"), consisting of ambient minimalist suspended lights. The simple looking, but the more difficult-to-produce light tubes can be arbitrarily assembled into verticals and horizontals according to one's own fantasy, as well as the dimensions of the available space. The playfulness and dynamics are then based on the combination of the diffused light of cigars and "bells". Because Lucie, who loves order and tidiness, knows how to play - with materials, shapes, and colors - wanting to give the same chance to others as well.

Alena Řezníčková