14 Mar P for Plankton
A hand showing “P” in the polish sign language looks like it was pinching or holding an object. P for Plankton. Plankton is the name of handles family designed by Ola Munzar....
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14 Mar Process
A handle is an intermediary in our contact with other objects. Because of its everyday use, it gets registered into the memory of our body. Thus, the real strength of its impact on our life becomes revealed only when a handle goes missing. The creation of...
14 Mar Moodboard with the iconographic
Hand and the mystery of its motility have always been for artists the subject of interest and admiration. We find the evidence of it in numerous painting studies – the reproduction of a human hand and its operations is a kind of artistic display, in...
14 Mar Fine motor skills
Fine motor skills often do not involve consciousness, which makes them not sufficiently appreciated. However, the simplest gripping action is accompanied by complicated processes and tensions. We do them automatically, while for example watching a movie and eating popcorn. The authors of the exhibition have...
14 Mar A handful or a pinch?
Kitchen is the heart of the whole home. Very often the cooking becomes the only skill that we dare to use as an experimentation field. There are different cooking schools and trends. Depending on the temperament of the household inhabitants, the culinary habits may turn...
14 Mar Gilding
Gilding is an old, master technique for covering the surfaces with precious metals. Thanks to its use, everyday objects gain value and thus become valuable. They are used on special occasions only. A silverware cutlery is ritually polished with salt or ash before a festive...
14 Mar Patination
The physical properties of copper change in the contact with moisture and air. Wrapped in a layer of patina, it takes on a variety of colors. They serve as a record of the passing time and of the characteristics of the place, where the phenomenon...
14 Mar People from the Porcelain Factory
Grasping and touching things are one of those activities in which the eye becomes a secondary sense. It is unimaginable how many of such movements we do day by day, often unconsciously. We catch, grasp and hold things not only when we use them, but...
14 Mar Objects for left-handers
For a long time now, along with the emancipation of left-handers (today a need for such a process is difficult to imagine; however, the left-handers were a discriminated group a few years back) the market of things designed specifically for their needs is growing. This...
14 Mar Knurled
Knurled work is made with a lathe. The aim of making it on an object’s surface is to eliminate the risk of a hand slipping while turning it. The pattern made of the knurl is perceptible to people thanks to the receptors located on their...
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