THE ARTS AND CRAFTS OF THE CZECH LANDS WITH DUE RESPECT TO THE PAST AS
WELL AS COURAGEOUS APPROACH TOWARDS THE FUTURE
The Project Krásná práce (Beautiful Work)
presents Czech craftsmanship and folk art in new contexts, offers a certain perspective in relation to original folk art, presents an alternative to the concept of today’s interior design and responds to the current demand for authentic and sustainable clothing. We present Czech folkart as valuable artefacts or functional, highly aesthetic products of home and clothing culture, and present them in the context of contemporary design, architecture and fashion. We initiate collaboration between masters of traditional crafts and designers to develop new designs and try to popularise traditional handicrafts among potential successors. We see tradition as a multiplication of all past and present creative forces, and we bring back old forgotten techniques with a deep respect for the present.
Cooperation of renowned Czech designers with masters of traditional crafts
design: Rony Plesl & craftsmanship: Karel Hanák (Habanian Faience)
design: Jiří Pelcl & craftsmanship: Petr Král (willow wicker knitting)
design: Hana Zárubová & craftsmanship: Besky (fabric filled with sheep’s wool)
design: Liběna Rochová & Eva Jandíková (fabric pattern) + Tkalcovna Strmilov (Czech kanafas fabric) + František Koudelka (bast weaving)
design: Jan Čapek & craftsmanship: Dřevořezba Černý dvůr (wood carving)
design: Martin Kohout & craftsmanship: Eva Velty (hand-painted traditional ornaments)
design: Studio Vrtiška Žák & craftsmanship: Milan Macho (knitting from pinewood)
design: Veronika Jiroušková Velčovská & craftsmanship: Ludmila Dominová (fish scale embroidery)
design: Afka Studio & craftsmanship: Hana Buchtelová
(Horňácká činovať fabric)
design: Veronika Jiroušková Velčovská & craftsmanship: brašnářství Barons (satchel making - technique of processing traditional costumes from Valašsko)
Collaboration of design students with masters of traditional crafts
design: Jan Lechner (Academy of Arts Architecture & Design in Prague) & craftsmanship: Miroslav Štěpánek (hammered metal)
design: Daniela Kačeriaková, (Faculty of Multimedia Communications, Tomas Bata University in Zlín) & craftsmanship: Jozef Najdek (satchel making - technique of processing traditional belts)
design: Karolína Vintrová (Academy of Arts Architecture & Design in Prague) & craftsmanship: Karel Hanák (Habanian Faience)
design:
Anastasia Mazur (Faculty of Art and Design at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem) & craftsmanship: Barbora Hrdinová (rattan knitting)
design: Adam Kvaček (Academy of Arts Architecture & Design in Prague) & craftsmanship and consultation: Iveta Dandová (cattail weaving)
design: Terezie Krísová (Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology) & craftsmanship consultation: Zdeněk Bukáček, Jan Lidmila (wood turning)
design: Natalie Costantinová (Academy of Arts Architecture & Design in Prague) & craftsmanship: Barbora Hrdinová (corn husk and rattan knitting)
design: Ondřej Čižmár (Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology) & craftsmanship: Karel Hanák (Habanian Faience)
design: Petra Kmošťáková (Faculty of Art and Design at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem) & craftsmanship: Iveta Dandová (cattail weaving)
design: Václav Koňařík, (Faculty of Multimedia Communications, Tomas Bata University in Zlín) & craftsmanship: Jiří Čurda (traditional knifemaking) design: Juraj Kotoč, (Faculty of Multimedia Communications, Tomas Bata University in Zlín) & craftsmanship: (Kotoč wireworking)
design: Sofia Artemeva, (Academy of Arts Architecture & Design in Prague) & craftsmanship: Ludmila Dominová (fish scale embroidery)
design: Sára Kučerová, (Academy of Arts Architecture & Design in Prague) & craftsmanship consultation: Jiří Rücker (wood carving)
design: Mikeš Procházka, (Academy of Arts Architecture & Design in Prague) & craftsmanship
Nožířství Jiří Čurda (traditional knifemaking)
design: Tereza Bláhová, (Academy of Arts Architecture & Design in Prague) & craftsmanship: Klára Halíčková (traditional embroidery from Horňácko region
design: Markéta Masnicová (Faculty of Art and Design at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem) & craftsmanship consultation: & Jiří Rücker (wood carving)
design: Eliška Holčáková
(Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art in Plzeň) & craftsmanship: Umělecké štukatérství
Oliver Braun / Jiří Hovorka, Jakub Čúzy
(Art plastering)
