Hungarian designer-producer firm IVANKA with Kucsera-Maurer Strategic Design Consultancy have created an object and soul: a headstone named ’Seeyou’ made of poured concrete. The young team is making its debut in Milan embracing this solemn affair, showing an exhibition of spiritual design for and after our life. SALONE SATELLITE 2009, Exhibit Hall 22-24, Stand Nr. 30 – Fuorisalone, Milan.

SEEYOU
Concrete gravestone from Hungary, 2008
Designers: Ákos Maurer Klimes, Péter Kucsera,
Co-authors: Katalin Ivanka, Andras Ivanka

IVANKA
Hungarian Budapest headquartered firm founded by Katalin Ivanka (b.9 August 1980) and Andras Ivanka (b.17 November 1978) in 2004. IVANKA Studio is dedicated to envisage design distinction creates desire and ’IVANKA Concrete Works’ to execute with the background of an organized technological drive based on the versatile nature of beton – main material chosen for creative expression and experimental ways of discovering unexplored attributes.

Ákos Maurer Klimes and Péter Kucsera
designers developing the idea of “Seeyou” are working together since graduation. After getting both jewellery maker and product designer qualifications their work transcend everyday objects, whether it be a gravestone or a piece of bread.

Collaborative design
Ideas are best nurtured in the open. As a result, IVANKA is a truly open organization, literally and figuratively: allows to experience collaboration in its more energetic forms which is always exciting. Processes and products developed by IVANKA reflect the synergy coming from the fusion of practices and an endless curiosity.

Understanding concrete
„Not only architecture and design that establish the material but it is the material that influences architecture, and the discipline of design demands a reciprocal relationship that can move from idea to materiality as well as in the opposite direction moving materiality to idea.”

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