Sunday, 2010-10-03

At the playful program the slogan of this year's Budapest Design Week, „Design – For Use” is turned into a question: „Design – How could you use it?”. “In the first part of the exciting afternoon we talk and think about useful and beautiful objects that have become the organic parts of our lives. Following a short break we turn each and everyone into a designer and work together to design the objects of the future creating the first prototypes using paper, plastic, waste materials. We await primary school children and their attendants!”

At the Sunday program led by Tibor Somlai interior designer, author of professional writings, participants can see the Kígyó street dentist's office designed by Lajos Kozma, which was developed in the so-called period of transition in the career of the architect. Overstepping his well-known, exceptionally ingenious baroque period containing folk elements and partially exaggerating formal properties, functionality came into the limelight. The office is a private home, not open for the public, so our tour is a real curio. The second venue of the tour is the City Theatre, the former Broadway Cinema designed by Ferenc Domány in 1938. From the trapezoid shaped, duplex hall there are two directions to get to the first cellar level with the buffet from where we can – again in two directions – get to the second cellar level where the exceptionally attractive auditorium covered with “Deho” wooden wallpaper was built. Thanks to the original design of the space, the theatre audience did not mix with those leaving the cinema, yet this solution has been modified by now, the reasons for which will be told by Tibor Somlai himself who led the redecoration of the building.
Tour 1
9.45 – meeting at the City Theatre (1075 Budapest, Károly körút 3.)
The tour starts at 10.00, City Theatre, then walk to the Kozma office that will be visited in two smaller groups (1054 Budapest, Kígyó utca 6.)
Tour 2
11.45 – meeting at the Kozma office (1054 Budapest, Kígyó utca 6.)
The tour starts at 12.00, Kozma office, then walk to the City Theatre (1075 Budapest, Károly körút 3.)

Luca Görömbei has been researching different possibilities to use a uniquely developed glass technology. The specially created pattern system appears in architecture glasses, objects and even statues. She presently makes jewellery, lamps and sculptures. In the framework of the program visitors can look into the 800 Co furnace, try glass facing and cutting and see the works produced n the studio.
www.lucagorombei.com

Viktor Varga combines classic and modern materials with the most up-to-date technologies when making jewellery. CAD-CAM processes offer more freedom than ever before in forming materials (in this case: precious metals), as they eliminate the eventuality of handicraft technologies and make satisfying the increasing demand for perfect reproduction easier. He strives to counteract the slightly colder “objective world” inevitably resulting from using machines with joyful thinking, kinetism, compound structural construction, and from time to time the “unrepeatability” of using precious stones, yet in cases he intensifies it with “philosophical” contents.