Hermann Czech - Kerzenständer / Kerzenleuchter / Candle Holder

Hermann Czech
Candle Holder (Kerzenständer / Kerzenleuchter) 
2024
Aluminium
Diameter 19 cm 
Height 23 cm 
With signed and consecutively numbered certificate
Published by FJK3

On the occasion of his exhibition Hermann Czech—Approximate Line of Action, the Austrian architect created this new edition after an original design from 1961–62. The object is based on the observation that even candles are dazzling when they are the only source of light. In this candlestick, the light from the flame as it burns downwards is reflected onto the table by the glare rings.

Hermann Czech (*1936, Austria) ranks as one of Austria’s most acclaimed architects and is a profound voice in the current discourse. His diverse architectural work spans urban planning, residential, school, and hotel buildings as well as small-scale interventions and exhibition designs.
Early interior designs of cafés, such as the Kleines Café(1970/1973-74) and the Wunder-Bar (1976), have long inscribed themselves in the cultural fabric of the city. Czech sees architectural theory as "thinking accompanying design": His critical writings on the protagonists of Viennese Modernism, on architectural matters such as "remodeling" and "transforming" or on the methodology of architectural production show an increasingly close relationship between the abstract and the concrete, between theory and practice.

Production: Studio D – Ulrich Dertschei
© Hermann Czech / fjk3 – Contemporary Art Space
Photos by Gabriele Kaiser