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Driade
A real cult brand of Italian design, Driade presents itself as an aesthetic laboratory with an eclectic, varied and often extravagant style, always ready to support the ideas and creativity of young designers from all over the world. This forward-looking strategy has been carried out since the company was founded by Enrico Astori, assisted by Antonia Astori for design and architecture and Adelaide Acerbi for visual communication This strategy has allowed the company to launch signatures for become great stars of the design world, including the French Philippe Starck.Read more

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Borek Sipek

Borek Sipek
Borek Sipek (1949-2016) was for many years one of the most renowned designers in the Czech Republic. After graduating from the Prague School of Applied Arts, he dedicated the 1970s to the study and teaching of design at various universities of the Germany, and then moved to Amsterdam in the following decade and founded his own studio there. His style, post-modern and almost baroque, gives life to unusual creations with bizarre shapes that clearly bear the mark of his eclectic personality. The material with which he gave his best was glass, revitalizing the great tradition of Bohemian crystal in the light of its peculiar aesthetics and giving life for Driade to its famous "Folies" collection, in which glass takes on an almost punk enriched with studs, pins and colored decorations. In 1994 he founded his own glass factory in the Czech Republic, Ajeto, with which he was supplier of, among others, the Dubai metro and the Kyoto Opera Tetaro. Sipek was also the official architect of Prague Castle during the presidency of the intellectual Valclav Havel in the 90s, imaginatively enriching the glass decorations of the building. He has also worked for lighting and furniture brands such as Lasvit and Sawaya & Moroni.Read more