Ohýbaný nábytek Josefa Macka
| Title in English | Josef Macek’s Bentwood Furniture |
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Holding an exhibition |
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| Description | Josef Macek (1942–2016), a graduate of the Woodworking Secondary School in Bystřice pod Hostýnem, is one of the creators, alongside Antonín Šuman and Radomír Hofman, who with their designs fundamentally influenced the shape of bentwood furniture in Czechoslovakia after the Second World War. During his employment at the TON national enterprise, he participated in the composition of the production range and was active after 1990, when the company was reorganised and privatised. During his four decades of activity at TON, he developed over eight hundred designs for chairs, armchairs, tables and additional furniture, ninety of which are registered in the industrial design database. The organisers’ intention is to commemorate Josef Macek’s lifelong efforts to make a “good chair” through products and prototypes, drawings, photographs and other documentary materials. The exhibition includes both production designs produced in large series at the time, which formed the basis of TON’s product range, as well as designs and prototypes that were not realised. |
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