Borek sipek biography for kids
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Bořek Šípek
Bořek Šípek (14 June 1949 – 13 February 2016) was a Czech architect and designer.
Biography
[edit]Born in Prague, he was renowned for his individual, unusual, colorful, and rich style. He experimented with unexpected and often opulent shapes.
Šípek is said to be the father of "neo-baroque".[citation needed] His architectural works and other designs are known worldwide, and his firm retains offices in Amsterdam, Prague, and Shanghai.
He was the architect of Prague Castle under the presidency of Václav Havel, and the designer of Havel's Place.[1]
Šípek was a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
He had three sons, one of them with Leona Machálková.[1]
Šípek died in 2016 at the age of 66 from cancer.[1]
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Fiell, Charlotte; Fiell, Peter (2005). Design of the 20th Century (25th anniversary ed.). Köln: Taschen. p. 650. ISBN . OCLC 809539744
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Czech and Baroque: Borek Šípek
Šípek’s whimsical Bambi chair of 1983 is named for his wife, a ballerina.
Borek Šípek in the garden of his cottage near Novy Bor, Czech Republic, a center for Czech glassmaking.
In Prague all things point to the castle. Ancient, huge, and visible from nearly every part of the city, Prague Castle is the seat of the Czech Republic. Borek Šípek left his mark on this icon of Czech history as the court architect during the presidency of his friend Václav Havel, from 1993 to 2003. But the Czech native son is also a prolific glass artist and designer of furniture, porcelain, and silver objects.
Today glass and architecture are the sixty-three-year-old Šípek’s focus. Glass, of course, is part of the Czech national artistic legacy, and Šípek’s fellow Czechs, as well as museum curators and collectors, place him among the most skilled glass artists in the world. But a vast body of work preceded that.
Šípek gained renown in the design world in the late 19
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Borek Sipek
BiographyThe Czech architect, furniture designer, and glass artist Borek Sípek was born in Prague in 1949. From 1964 to 1968 Borek Sípek studied furniture design at the Prague School for the Applied Arts. In 1969 he began to study architecture at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg. In 1973 he studied philosophy at Stuttgart University. From 1977 until 1979 he was an academic assistant at the Hannover University Institute of Industrial Design. Borek Sípek took his degree in architecture at Delft Technical University. Then he taught design theory at Essen University until 1983. In 1983 Borek Sípek also opened an architecture and design practice in Amsterdam. He founded Alterego, a design business, with David Palterer. In the 1980s, Borek Sípek designed Postmodern furniture and glass objects, which brought him international renown. Borek Sípek's designs are formally distinctive, both ingeniously conceived and sumptuous, and are often executed in unconv