It’s a Small World by Mary Blair

It’s a Small World by Mary Blair

by | Feb 18, 2018 | Flashback

Last week-end we went to Disneyland Paris. I had mixed feelings about it all. I had to admit that I was just as excited as my daughter but for completely other reasons: mine were more to do with confronting my childhood fantasies to the reality of French Disneyfied...
1982: Century Dormeuse by Andrea Branzi

1982: Century Dormeuse by Andrea Branzi

by | Jan 19, 2017 | Flashback

We love this Century dormeuse by Andrea Branzi. To us, hlow team, it is above all one of his first statement solo piece. It was built in 1982, so 5 years before his Compasso d’Oro. Before this piece, his production is perhaps more theoretical, with Archizoom and...
Adolf Loos in Pilsen

Adolf Loos in Pilsen

by | Oct 14, 2016 | Flashback

Pilsen is a little town of Czech Republic half way between its capital, Prague, and Nuremberg, in Germany. At the beginning of the XXth century it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and some of its elite had had echoes of the trends in Vienna, among which, was...
Antonin Kybal: Of Carpets and Geometrics

Antonin Kybal: Of Carpets and Geometrics

by | Oct 13, 2016 | Flashback

Antonin Kybal was a significant Czech textile artist and educator, founder of the Czech school tapestry. Kybal along with his wife Ludmila Kybalová, became a leading figure and pioneer of modern Czech textile art. After World War II, he founded in the Academy of Arts...