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"Each piece is unique, much like a painting by a painter. Based purely on accident, the resulting product always surprises me." Markéta Držmíšková

Co-designed by architect Petr Hák and porcelain designer Markéta Držmíšková, this project features furniture and porcelain products that play with details, material textures and contrasts. "My products are usually very cold and technical. Markéta has succeeded in complementing them with lively and fragile elements," says Petr Hák, describing his collaboration with Michaela Držmíšková. The Editors-in-Chief Award, which they won for the Sequence collection at Designblok last year, was confirmation of their great idea to interconnect their two worlds. Having graduated from the Furniture and Interior Design Studio led by Jiří Pelcl at the AAAD in Prague, Petr is currently continuing his studies as a postgraduate student at the Faculty of Art and Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University. This collection features his modular system of easily- disassembled shelves, which consists of metal poles in horizontal and vertical lines. The design is fine-tuned with joints locking to form right angles from the very first screw. The designer also focuses on the relationships between individual materials. Wooden shelves fit snugly with the metal prism, allowing users to easily change the final form. A graduate of the Natural Materials Studio at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Markéta has been a fan of porcelain since her college days. She complements Petr's pure shelf furniture design with organic porcelain by brushing porcelain mass onto white cylindrical forms of various sizes and dimensions. The fully functional vessels (vases, bowls, mugs) are very fragile and delicate and the brush strokes are visible on the surface. "Each piece is unique, much like a painting by a painter. Based purely on accident, the resulting product always surprises me."

Radka Machalická