The publications of the Museum of Applied Arts are now available in retail outlets. We now present the latest editions of our catalogues of previous exhibitions, and of our publications on applied arts and architecture!
Iparkodunk
Borsos Roland, Koren Zsolt (ed.)
How does the Museum of Applied Arts survive the closure of its main building? According to our recently published magazine book, only Ödön Lechner's palace on Üllői út was padlocked during the reconstruction, but the museum is alive and well. In the 160-page Iparkodunk bookazine, reports, interviews and colourful stories tell how the closed museum has rejuvenated, how the Museum of Applied Arts can become the nation's treasure house and an Art Nouveau World Heritage Centre in the future.
Innovating across borders
Horváth Judit
Sándor Borz Kováts (1940-1973) lived only 33 years, yet he was one of the most important Hungarian designers of his time. At the same time as Ernő Rubik, the inventor of the Rubik's Cube, who celebrates his 50th birthday this year, he was an assistant professor at the Budapest College of Applied Arts, and like so many others, he was a great influence on him. This exhibition and catalogue of his life's work seeks to extend the life of Sándor Borz Kováts in several ways, both by placing the few objects that remain of his work in an international context and through the work of the students of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, the campus that was so important to him. The volume includes many more interviews than usual, as well as photographs and documents that have never been published before.
Kaesz homes 1925-60
HOMES OF THE DESIGN COUPLE KAESZ GYULA AND LUKÁTS KATÓ
Horányi Éva
We love to host. Some are electrified by the culinary mastery of their hosts, others by the chance to glimpse into the home of a relative, friend or acquaintance, and the most personal objects of their life. With this volume, we can explore the spaces and objects of more than four decades of shared life of a fantastic creative couple - Gyula Kaesz and Kató Lukáts. Through furniture, textile patterns and packaging designs, the creativity and visual impact of the outstanding artists of Hungarian furniture design and graphic art, which still dominate today, is also brought to life, and we can also discover the modernist homes of the 1930s.
The catalogue is the catalogue of the exhibition entitled Kaesz Homes 1925-1960, which opened in the Walter Rózsi Villa in cooperation with the Museum of Applied Arts and the Hungarian Museum of Architecture and and Monument Protection Documentation Center.