With this project, we reacted to piracy and design copying. We come with a concept of a collection intended for copying. Since our industrial products were copied - “faked” - as well, we found out that the original purpose and meaning of many things gets lost when they are copied. We follow this line of thought and the whole collection “Fake it Easy” is somehow “faked” itself and the meaning of things is shifted.

collection presented at Salone del Mobile in Milan 2008, gilded crystal glasses, vases and lustre with golden meat-chopper

Engineering Collection is a result of cooperation of Koncern Design and glassworks Rückl Crystal a. s. It is related to the tradition of Czech hand-craft crystal glassware and moves it forward. Czech crystal glassware has become a victim of unstable development of Czech economy in last decades. Glass industry was a major artifact of export policy of communist Czechoslovakia in years 1948 – 1989. In last seventeen years it has been facing new phenomenon – tourist industry. Both have devastating impacts: It was and it is required to remain at the historicist forms. As a consequence, the minimal development was made.

Five collections from Koncern Design meet current requirements for utility and aesthetics in the field of luxurious beverage glassware. It brings new fancy features into stagnate glasswork industry.

Designer: Koncern Design Studio Made in Czech Republic

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