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NOVELTIES OF THE HEREND MANUFACTORY
A legend reborn:
Herend coffee machine
In 1958, at a world exhibition in Brussels, the
Herend Porcelain Manufactory put an espresso
machine on display as its main attraction.
The Victorian-patterned porcelain armature,
which conceals the mechanism in itself, was
constructed by Tibor Bruck, industrial artist and
designer. Some of these particularly elegant coffee
machines were sent to the most prominent
coffeehouses of Hungary: the legendary Caflisch
in Pécs, the Virág Café in Szeged, the Emil Café
in Pilisvörösvár, the Gerbeaud Café, also called
the “Heart of Budapest”, as well as the Gellért and
Béke hotels and the Gundel Restaurant. Recently,
a coffee machine painted with MHG décor (Motifs
Hongrois Grand) was noticed at an online auction,
but the artists of Herend have recollections
of one painted with Rothschild patterns. The
legend of the porcelain-coated coffee machines
was reborn at the Ambiente international interior
decoration exhibition of 2007.
The porcelain-coated coffee machine is available
for purchase.
These classic espresso machines were used in
elegant Viennese-style cafés all over Hungary.
Equipped with the most sophisticated Italian
mechanism, the porcelain cover is decorated with
Herend’s hallmark Queen Victoria design.
Price: 4,200,000 HUF
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Gömböc, the mobile
porcelain statuette
The Gömböc, a Hungarian invention
that has gained global recognition
over the years, is now available in
porcelain, thanks to the Herend Porcelain
Manufactory. Only they were
able to produce the hollow porcelain
structure. The invention has become
a modern work of art, a very special
mobile statuette. It is an item of both
meditation and ornamentation, as its
tortoise shell-shaped form is decorated
with mathematical formulas
and diagrams. The patterns are self-reflections;
the piece tells its story from
birth in the language of mathematics.
It is a new, tangible proof of the Manufactory’s
mission to support the artistic
and academic life of Hungary with
its own possibilities.
Herend Tea
The brand Herend has long meant
more than just porcelain. The tastes
and scents of the four kinds of tea —
black, green, rooibos, and fruit — represent
elegance, uniqueness, tradition
and perfect choice, in the “language
of tea”, of course.
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NOVELTIES OF THE HEREND MANUFACTORY
la Herend
Victoria design in a new violet and grey colour version
An impressive line: porcelain tea spoons
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NOVELTIES FROM HEREND
Cup and saucer
with the motifs
of a Samarkand
Minaret
A bracelet
from the
zodiac series
150 YEARS of the RotHschild Design
Once a city where many German kings were crowned, Frankfurt
is today an important financial, trade and culture centre, and
between 12 and 16 February it again hosts the international
interior decoration exhibition and fair, titled Ambiente 2010.
This time will be a good occasion to show novelties of the trade,
as the products on display represent innovation and the design of
tomorrow. Customers consider the values of credibility, tradition
and timelessness, as well as quality and creativity, to be most important
when choosing a product, but emotional involvement has
bearing too. All exhibitors do their best to meet these requirements.
The fair inspires future trends by featuring the products of Herend
Porcelain Manufactory at the stand with the sign G20, on the first
floor of building four (Messe Frankfurt – Fair & Exhibition Centre,
Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1, 60327 Frankfurt am Main, 4.1 G20).
Porcelain golf balls
The presence of the Manufactory in Frankfurt will also be an occasion
to remember the 150th anniversary of the Rothschild design.
Therefore the products on display will be made in the spirit of respect
for traditions and innovation. It was cash-register documents
from the 19th century that helped construe the history and changes
of the design. This information lists the quantity of the products
made, and a great deal of information necessary to indentify the
artifacts in addition to the names of the clients, so the conditions of
how individual décors were created can be traced back.
The cash registers include objects with the name Rothschild
from 1860, and this name also appears among the clients. The
Manufactory has always continued to sell products named after
their first customers with minor or more significant changes. The
pattern with birds singing on a tree may have had similar illustrations
as its forerunner. This design with birds in it was made in
several forms, and the Herend Porcelain Art Museum also has a
number of objects in store.
An outstanding artwork of the anniversary year will be a vase
with embossed figures of birds on it, and also its copy in a smaller
size. There will also be a special ornamental vase on which the patterns
of the Rothschild design will be placed in a bee-cell structure.
We can also see different sets of objects with birds of the four seasons,
and to revive the series of the museum a new version of the
design with true-to-life patterns and diversified colours to complement
the versions so far. (RO, RO-EV, SOVT).
The jubilee pattern
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A vase from the artistic line Photos: Barna Burger