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That is the primary time Lithuanian furnishings producers have earned such an evaluation, though the world’s greatest within the subject of design have been chosen for greater than seventy years.
Vaclovas Daukintis, the pinnacle of the “Vadasiga” firm, lately returned from Athens, the place the distinguished awards had been handed out. They’re awarded by the Athenaeum Museum of Structure and Design in Chicago in collaboration with the European Middle for the Research of Structure, Artwork, Design and Urbanism. It’s a globally acknowledged award that acknowledges achievements in design and innovation throughout industries.
Three of the seven collections of tables created by “Vadasiga” and Okay. Rashid acquired particular consideration.
– What’s particular about these merchandise created by People and Lithuanians? – “Lietuvos rytas” requested V. Daukinci.
– We now have been cooperating with Okay. Rashid for fifteen years. His works are distinguished by a particular mixture of type and performance, surprising traces, vibrant colours.
The espresso desk collections “Ikon Cities”, “Nebula” and “Blok” received awards.
Ikon Cities tables acquired particular consideration. Once we mentioned the brand new concept with Okay. Rashid, we despatched him samples of coats of arms and flags of the ten largest cities in Lithuania – Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai, Panevėžys and others.
The designer has cleverly stylized their fragments, connecting trendy design with Lithuanian traditions, utilizing the hexagonal form of a beehive as a standard hyperlink, which connects ten Lithuanian cities from Druskininkai to Nida.
The tables created in a minimalist method are colourful, playful and practical.
Okay.Rashid was pleased with our joint success, regardless that he has already turn into a “Good Design” laureate greater than as soon as. By the way in which, he supplied to take part on this prestigious competitors. And we aren’t solely blissful, but additionally proud that our partnership has crossed borders, and Lithuania has been offered as a middle of modern and globally acknowledged design.
Our espresso tables might be exhibited for a while within the Athens Museum of Structure, Artwork, Design and City Research, along with the very best design works of the creators of the US and European nations.
We joke that our tables are distinctive: designed in New York, made in Lithuania, evaluated in Chicago and awarded in Athens.
– The Lithuanian season might be held in Paris for 3 months from the center of September, many cultural occasions are deliberate. Should not or not it’s a good suggestion to current your world-award-winning tables to the French?
– Such ideas come up. Particularly since they might also have a French contact: vibrant, colourful and, I believe, would slot in French interiors.
Our works might additionally current Lithuania, the place merchandise appreciated by world designers are produced.
– The “Ikon Cities” assortment is marked with stylized particulars of Lithuanian metropolis coats of arms or flags. Maybe the leaders of these cities are already ingesting espresso with their company?
– Not but. There have been ideas of inviting the mayors of these cities to Athens, however the excessive price of the journey held them again. We plan to ask them to Vilnius, to some gallery. Possibly now that the excellent news concerning the award has unfold, our works will discover a place not solely in these cities that we have fun in such an uncommon method.
Three collections of tables made in Lithuania will journey to New York, to Okay. Rashid’s new flats.
– In the course of the festive ceremony, you and your daughter Gabriele, Vadasiga’s business supervisor, sat on the similar desk not solely with three award-winning Italians – the creators of latest Ferrari vehicles, but additionally with the president of the Chicago Museum of Structure and Design, Christian Narkiewicz-Laine?
– A well-known developer and structure critic with Lithuanian roots launched himself: I’m Kristijonas Narkevičius. He understands Lithuanian, however it’s simpler for him to speak in English.
He’s a singular one who has three citizenships: American, as a result of he was born there, Finnish, as a result of his father is Finnish, and Lithuanian citizenship was granted to him by President Valdas Adamkus for his companies to our nation.
in 2008 Kristijonas Kražių (Kelmės district) donated his mom Charlotte Narkiewicz-Laine’s assortment of books and musical recordings to the library of the Serbian Tradition Middle.
There are over a thousand books and albums, totally on artwork matters. Later, extra relics from his private assortment reached the museum.
Ch. Narkiewiczius-Laine is a maternal descendant of the noble Narkievičiai-Kaciucevičiai and Radvila households from Kražia, he is among the most well-known Scandinavian poets of this time. A number of books of his poetry have been revealed in Lithuanian.
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