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They are a pair – and this is perhaps why they prefer naming their designs with titles containing double letters: Liico, Decci, Kidoo... After all, even the studio of graduates from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, which they established in 2004, is called LLEV. They named it after the animal from the Czech state emblem, a lion, and doubled the first letter reportedly in order to underline its two-tailed character and appearance...

Contrary to most Czech designers, they do not live in Prague but in the city of Turnov, situated in the protected area of the so-called Bohemian Paradise. This may be one of the reasons why they feel no need to astonish people with big realizations or to play on "high art". They most often come up with practical objects of everyday use and home accessories, which nevertheless do not lack a touch of wit and a measure of detachment. This is also true in the case of their collections of cutting boards Kvaadr and side tablets Chocco, the latter reminiscent of a chocolate bar. Have you, too, already begun forgetting your keys, mobile phone and glasses at home? Then these tablets are right for you!

The Mochal couple does not only attract attention for their high sight but also their capability of selecting non-traditional and mainly innovative materials and for subsequently interlinking them with the traditional craftsmanship of people living around them. The Kvaadr cutting boards are therefore made of Richlite – an ecological paper composite produced by recycling banana boxes. It is, however, extremely durable and when dyed and resin-hardened, it provides exactly the performance one would expect from a kitchen board. Moreover, in 2017, Eva and Marcel turned their focus to products which accompany us not only in the course of our life but also at its very end. These were the Fomma vases and the Infinite Connection glass objects, created in cooperation with the Memory Crystal glassmaking factory in Česká Lípa. To the designers, the ashes deposited in glass are in fact a new form of life and, simultaneously, homage to its eternal cycle.

Alena Řezníčková