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DESIGN MUSEUM PRAGUE

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dos and don'ts

Please do not touch any of the objects on display

Please do not climb on the pedestals

Photography is allowed in the entire museum except for the screening room

Please do not feed the elephant

~Thank you and enjoy your visit~

Our Story

The truth is we never wanted to open a museum, but our apartment was too small to fit all the furniture.

What is On?

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Uten.silo, Dorothee Becker (1969)

Dorothee Becker (1938–2023) designed Uten.silo in 1969 and then Uten.silo II in 1970. It is a storage system for use on the wall. Designed with containers of different shapes and sizes, metal hooks and clips, it brings order to offices, kitchens, workshops, bathrooms and children's rooms.

Uten.silo is manufactured exclusively from post production plastic.

Dorothee Becker studied languages in Frankfurt and Munich. After living in London and Paris for a time, she moved to California in 1960. A few years later, she returned to Germany with her husband, Ingo Maurer, and ran a successful shop for well-designed and practical everyday objects until 1989.

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Masters chair, Philippe Starck (2010)

The Masters chair is a clear tribute to three symbol-chairs, reworked and reinterpreted by Starck’s creative genius. The unmistakable silhouettes of Arne Jacobsen’s “Serie 7”, Eero Saarinen’s “Tulip Armchair” and Charles Eames’ “Eiffel Chair” entwine in a sinuous hybrid, creating a fusion of original and attractive styles. Light and practical, Masters can also be used outdoors. The one on dispay here is in metallic finishes which convey and extra special effect. Starck said:

"We weren’t born just today. There have been masters before us.


The Masters chair brings together the lines of three great masters and three great masterpieces.

When you put them all together, they create a new product, a new project, like a reflection of our new society.”

Louis Ghost, Philippe Starck (2002)

Philippe Starck based the design for the translucent Ghost chair on a simple upholstered chair, made popular in the eighteenth century by French King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette.

His elegant design helped changed the perception that plastic was a cheap and disposable material. Starck elevated plastic to being in the same league as wood and metal for high end design products. 

Produced for Italian furniture company Kartell in 2002, Starck’s chair became an instant classic.

It is now manufactured from recyclable plastic.

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