Monograph dedicated to Bořek Šípek, whose design is embedded with a sharp mysticism which challenges the rationality of Western European design.
“The things I make aren't design objects. I've never been concerned with industrial design, because I'm not interested into it. I prefer to design something for people than to try to put something into a nice wrapping.”
B. Šípek
Philippe Louguet is a French architect and researcher.
Dagmar Sedlicka is a journalist, publicist and poetess.
Bořek Šípek (born 1949, Prague) is a worldwide known architect, designer and reputable professor. In 1968 he moved to Germany where he studied Architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Hamburg. He settled in Amsterdam in 1983 where he opened the Architecture & Design Studio. He returned back to his motherland after the velvet revolution and was named Court Architect of the Prague Castle, from 1992 to 2003.
