Šípek Bořek
designer/ architetto
Note biografiche
Dal 1987 espone in mostre personali e collettive.
Fra il 1993 e il 1995 ha lavorato in diversi progetti architettonici:
Museum Het Kruithuis in Den Bosch, The Netherlands.
Karl Lagerfeld boutique on Faubourg Saint Honoré in Paris.
Opera House in Kyoto.
Façade for departmentstore 'Komatsu' in Tokyo, Japan.
Showroom for The Steltman Collection, Amsterdam.
Progetti architettonici del 1999-2001:
Art Centre 'Arzenal' in Prague,
Pavilion for Skoda international automobile exhibition in Hannover, Woongalerie in Amsterdam.
Dal 1998 è docente di Design all'University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
Architetto del Castello di Praga sotto la presidenza di Václav Havel.
È cavaliere delle Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Premi:
1983: Honourable mention for the 'German Architecture Prize' for design of Sipkova house, Hamburg Moved to Amsterdam and opened architecture & design studio.
1989: Premiato al Kho Liang I Prize for design.
1991: 'La Croix Chevalier dans L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres' by the French Government
1993: "Prins Bernhard Fonds" prize for Architecture and Applied Arts.
Musei che possiedono sue opere:
Museum of Arts and Design, New York City
Museum for Decorative Art in Prague, The Czech Republic
'Kunstmuseum' in Düsseldorf, Germany
'The Stedelijk Museum' in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Museum Boymans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Museum for Decorative Arts in Lyon and Paris, France
The Corning Museum of Glass in New York, US
The Hague Municipal Museum, The Netherlands
Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Switzerland
Design Museum in London, United Kingdom
Denver Art Museum in Denver, US
Het Kruithuis in Den Bosch, The Netherlands
Ha realizzato oggetti di design per:
Alessi, Cleto Munari, Driade Spa, Maletti, Sawaya & Moroni in Italy
Leitner, Wittmann in Austria
Vitra, Milus in Switzerland
Sèvres, Daum in France
Anthologie Quartett, Süssmuth in Germany
Steltman Collection in The Netherlands
Ajeto in The Czech Republic
Scarabas in Belgium
Bibliografia
50° Premio Faenza, concorso internazionale della ceramica d'arte, 20 settembre 1997-31 gennaio 1998, catalogo a cura di Gian Carlo Bojani, Dirma Dal Prato, Faenza, Studio 88, 1997, p. 134.
Borek Sipek, the Sunken town, 's-Hertogenbosch, Museum het Kruithuis, 1996.
Borek Sipek, Philippe Longuet, Dagmar Sedlicka, Paris, Dis Voir, 1998.
