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Jiri Jiroutek's chests

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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.

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Eastern European design

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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.

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About Claustra ?

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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.

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Why buy vintage furniture?

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You want to change your interior, change the layout, the decoration of your living room, your bedroom? So why not invest in vintage furniture? Buying used furniture has many advantages that are described in this article.

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Avant / Après : la restauration de meubles vintage #2

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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!

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The rejection of Socialist Realism in Poland

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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.

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Socialist Realism and Polish Design

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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...

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Before / After : Restoration of vintage furniture #1

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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!

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The duality of Czechoslovak and Polish design

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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.

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Interior design during the thaw period in Poland

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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.

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The persistence of tradition across production entities

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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.

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Galerie Parallèle in the press

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We had the pleasure to receive Véronique Lorelle, journalist from the daily newspaper "le Monde", to talk about Eastern European design.

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