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Breadbasket | Polka
The simple napkin, which so often sits quietly under the bread or lies on top to keep it warm, here becomes the basket itself.
A thin sheet of wire mesh is enclosed within a removable cotton cover, to be shaped according to the amount of bread it must hold.
DEMMERS TEA SALON
Installation, 2016
Vienna Design Week,
Teatime with Alice in Wonderland: In the setting of the tea salon installation design by POLKA, the teabrand DEMMERS TEAHOUSE presents the new gastro porcelain collection designed by POLKA. Served in the fine pieces from the design studio, visitors of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK are also invited during an aromatic afternoon tea to test the multifaceted services, usable in an amazing variety of combinations.
Photos: C Vienna Design Week – Kollektiv Fischka – Marcell Nimfuehr
Vienna Design Week
With this new set of porcelains POLKA in collaboration with Herend wanted to make a new statement in temporary table culture.
The service is especially designed for daily use. For the first time the manufactorer Herend is using blue inglazing for the decoration, hence the porcelain is dishwasher safe.
The new porcelain service was presented for the first time in an installation during Vienna Designweek 2012 in the Bulthaup showroom and at the same time at the Lobmeyr shop in Vienna.
TEMPORARY CAFÈ ‘ALMHÜTTE’
POLKA was invited to design a typically Austrian café for the Tendence Fair at Messe Frankfurt. The result is an alpine mountain hut, surrounded by a flock of sheep for sitting on and an interpretation of the traditional corner benches with interlocking tables to rest on and enjoy the panoramic view of the mountains.
PEARL LIGHT Ed.2
The second edition of the Pearl Light is presented at Stilwerk Design Gallery by Engelhorn & Turkiewicz, Vienna.
PERSONAL SHOPPER
POLKA was invited to create an installation at Messe Frankfurt, and chose objects fit for an Entertainer, who loves the playfulness and spectacle of a fairground. The selected products play with ideas of transformation: altered dimensions change the context of products, unconventionally employed materials produce surprise, thoughts are translated into objects. The products reflect a lively, intense and curious way of living, where content is sought and
WHITE CHRISTMAS
POLKA’s design for a system of interactive LED snowflakes was awarded first prize in the ‚Light Up’ competition organised by the Vienna Chamber of Commerce. Text messages could be sent by members of the public to a dedicated number, to make the snow flakes brighten and dim intermittently. Using the perspective of the short street in Vienna’s city center POLKA was able to make it snow every single day. In addition, for every text message that was sent, one euro was donated to a local childrens’ charity.
OUR FEATHERED FRIEND
For POLKA’s first appearance at the Salone del Mobile, Milan, they presented a simple, wooden kitchen chair that had been taared with cock feathers.