Wallpaper is our favorite design medium. So when they mention our work, we feel very satisfied again. This time New York-based editor Pei-Ru Keh included our Travel prints in her Highlights report from this year ICFF. Thanks!

Yesterday we have visited old Granary in Suchomasty close to Beroun, Czech republic to acquire some modernist furniture pieces for our new OKOLO/Pedal Project office and gallery in Prague.

Beautiful day in the old granary owned by our friend and collaborator Jan Jaroš od Cohn Auction we spent by selecting of some pieces from his wonderful collection of mid-century modernism. At the end we choose some Scandinavian anonymous chairs, 1950s floor lamp by Josef Hůrka for Napako, as well as one 1930s steel tubes table and more.

Thanks Jan Jaroš of Cohn Auction very much and you will see these extraordinary pieces in our new office and gallery very soon.

We are very happy to announce that our OKOLO Mollino book is included in Annual book published by our favorite blog Its Nice That.

The book, published at the end of the last year, includes the best of the year featured on Its Nice That online blog during the year of 2012.

Many thanks to Its Nice That!

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We started to collaborate with UDU, Institute of Art History of Academy of Sciences of Czech republic on design of its Window Gallery in Prague.

The first installation has presented new book Naprej published by UDU. The book, edited by Rostislav Švácha and collective, documents history of Czech architecture for sport use. Our installation included five windows with the colorful backgrounds showing some selected chapters and photos from the book, as well as some sport equipment next to them.

Thanks UDU and curator Vendula Hnídková for nice collaboration.

Photos by Tomáš Souček

One year ago we have visited unique organic house by Jacques Gillet in Liége, Belgium. Now our report published in Domus 966.

Jacques Gillet built this sculptural house for his brother and his wife in 1967 together with sculptor Félix Roulin and engineer René Greisch. The house is completed in metal wires structure covered with thin surface of concrete. The natural structure blends with its surrounding and resembles rock.

More about this utopist architecture inside Domus 966 or read whole article on Domus.

Thanks Tomáš Souček for photography, Zuzka Těťálová for translation, Laura Bossi for editing and Joseph Grima for the opportunity to publish it.

Our The Mirror exhibition debuted at Designblok in Prague last October is now on display at Stilwerk Limited Edition Window Gallery curated by Vienna Design Week in Vienna.

You can see one part of the project featuring commissioned mirrors and art objects by 17 designers and artists there only. About original exhibition you can read here.

Thanks to all contributing artists, collaborators, Vienna Design Week, Stilwerk and Czech Center in Vienna for their help.

Something between artwork, poster and illustration, this series of Cut-out prints documents some of the mid-century coffee and low tables designed by Gio Ponti, Gabriella Crespi, George Nakashima, Paul Kjaerholm and many others in very simple 2D shapes. It is our graphic homage to the formal mastery of the modernist design in a fresh contemporary way.


1.
George Nakashima, Minguren coffee table, 1980s, USA

2.
Gio Ponti, Custom coffee table from Villa Arreaza, Caracas, 1954, Italy, Venezuela

3.
Gio Ponti, Coffee table, 1950s, Italy

4.
Poul Kjaerholm, PK 61 coffee table for E. Kold Christensen, 1956

5.
Edward Wormley, Coffee table for Dunbar, 1964, USA

6.
Gabriella Crespi, Coffee table, 1970s, Italy

7.
Luther Conover, Coffee table, 1955, USA

8.
Greta Magnusson Grossman, Coffee table for Glenn of California, 1952, USA

Photos by Matěj Činčera, Jaroslav Moravec and Ondřej Přibyl

We are very happy to present forth issue of our annual OKOLO magazine. This time with subtitle Liguria, which explores hidden architecture, design and culture gems of Italian Liguria coastline.

Created in collaboration with collector and curator Fulvio Ferrari of Casa Mollino from Turin, the magazine showcases some of the interesting persons, places and objects from Liguria including Ferrari's own house in Borgio Verezzi, architecture of Mario Galvagni, ceramics of Albisola, Gio Ponti monastery in San Remo, archive of Piaggio company or story of famous Chiavari chairs. And much more.

Thanks to all collaborators. Magazine is available online directly from us or in selected stores around world.