Jakub Berdych

Cut and high enamel vases. Hammer as a final appearance tool. Electrician clamps on the molten cut handle of a vase. Stone objects. Authorial collections of Jakub Berdych, owner and leader of the Czech brand Qubus, fundamentally influences current processes of searching for shape and form. Jakub Berdych's conceptual approach is an interview about the meaning of things, the shapes of the past, the importance of beauty, about the combination of kitsch and value. Design as an idea, process and coincidence. “When I transformed old vases, which I was sorry to throw in the rubbish, I didn't think of design or utility. I just wanted to change the shape which I don't like into a shape I liked,” says Jakub Berdych about his edition of the original ready-made vases Die Verwandlung and Born Broken. This was followed by the series Foukané lisované (Blown Moulded) which Jakub designed for Křehký in 2014. In this edition Jakub Berdych combines two different types of traditional glass technologies in a totally original way – pressing and blowing the glass. In the same year he designed a luminous object called Robot – a spatial stained-glass piece for Křehký.

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