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The room divider is a panel often found outside, used in particular to visually isolate a garden. Sometimes full, sometimes partially open, the room divider adopts many styles, and can be manufactured in different materials. Many decorators and designers have looked at this piece to introduce it into interiors. Its primary function as a partition has remained and has been supplemented with a decorative dimension.

For the third time on this online magazine, we are pleased to let you discover how some of the pieces on sale were before restoration.

Jiri Jiroutek is a Czech designer from Pardubice. In the 1960s, he designed a series of original, easy-to-produce chests for Interier Praha, making them accessible to as many Czechoslovakians as possible at the time.

In the aftermath of the Second World War, the various countries of the Eastern Bloc had the opportunity to reflect on how to design and furnish the interiors.

For the second time on this blog, we make you discover how we restore our vintage pieces so that they can furnish your interior in a modern way while keeping the authentic design of the time!

The duality that exists in Poland, in terms of design, as we have noted through the production entities can be compared to that which affects French furniture between 1945 and 1967.

After Stalin's death, within the various countries attached to the USSR, interior architecture was marked by a renewal. Nevertheless, a certain continuity can be noted over the decades. It is characterized by the persistence of a certain tradition that existed before the communist regime.

During the thaw period, several elements bear witness to the birth of a new aesthetic. They are objects with bright colors, abstract and organic forms.

You may have already wondered what the condition of the vintage pieces was like before they were put on sale on our site? The answers are here!

During the thaw period, Socialist Realism was rejected. This rejection is twofold, since it is the fault of both artists and regimes. In Poland, the break occurred mainly during the Polish October of 1956.

After the Second World War, Poland was extremely weak economically, politically and artistically. As early as 1944, the USSR had a hold over it thanks to the Lublin Committee (Polish National Liberation Committee sitting in Lublin). This was reflected in the formation of the Polish Unified Workers Party in 1948.Poland, then a satellite country of the Soviet Union, was imposed many obligations. In art, it must conform to Socialist Realism (a concept established as a doctrine and official art...