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Nika Zupanc
"Contemporary design is still very much a boys' club. I'm challenging that."
Slovenian product and interior designer Nika Zupanc pours a poetic disruption into a world of design and interiors. Her products and installations challenge the rational, sober, and utilitarian by giving voice to the intuitive, eclectic, and intimate.
“Communicating the things that can not be told, ” boldly states her website.
Nika graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2000. Today, she works as an independent designer who is constantly involved in fresh projects that grow out of distinctive interpretations of modern culture, contemporary design, and available technological options. Her products are part of the range of distinguished design companies such as Moooi, Sé, Moroso and Nodus, and she works with prestigious clients on a specially assigned projects.
“One of the Slovenian designer's favourite photographs is from Playboy, of design's leading lights circa 1961… it's an all-male group, a collection of dark suits and bald patches. This is the party Zupanc wants to crash, ” writes William Wiles in Icon magazine.
“Her weapon is femininity. Her work is a barrage of traditionally "feminine" motifs and objects: dolls, cradles, feather-dusters, frills, bows, flowers. She exhibits in large, stylised doll's houses. At first glance it's an onslaught of kitsch. But there's a political message here, an attack on stereotypes. ”
Nika’s praised limited edition collections and installations are exhibited around the world, sometimes as part of high-end collaborations like the one with Rossana Orlandi. Along the way, Nika continuously produces objects under her own brand Nika Zupanc and is involved in various interior projects.
Lights Designed by Nika Zupanc
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