3-D Printing Brings Czech Cubism To life In gorgeous Geometric Dinnerware Set

within the years between 1910 and 1925, Czech Cubism flourished in Prague. Czech architects, sculptors and furniture designers took the sharp points and folded planes of Cubist artwork via the likes of Picasso and Georges Braque and translated them into constructions and objects. stroll around Prague lately and you could nonetheless see relics of the motion in the angular, origami-like facades of structures Hodek rental home and the Kovarovic Villa.

The Czech dwelling items retailer Lauriger objectives to revive the Czech Cubist tradition by way of commissioning more than a few artists and designers to create dinnerware impressed through the motion. Designed by architect Svetlana Koženová, the porcelain Lilia assortment is one such example. Koženová married Czech Cubism with digital design and 3-D printing to provide a lovely geometric table set.

within the Lilia assortment, tea cups, saucers and bowls appear to blow up into sharp angles and prismatic shapes. inspired by using Cubism as well as the shape of the lily flower (the form of which is mainly evident within the bowls), Koženová three-D printed molds and collaborated with an area porcelain manufacturer in Dubi u Teplic, a Czech city close to the German border, to provide the pieces.

“I’m very proud of our heritage in the Czech Republic. It appears poetic that Czech porcelain is so well-known for its quality—it was this sort of excellent match,” she says in an interview with Lauriger. “i believe that we handiest reached such high requirements with a spirit of innovation and self-improvement. i am hoping, via combining tradition and know-how, my work displays that.”

[by the use of Design Indaba]