Borek Sipek
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Citation
Hinge, v.30, 1996, pp. 56-57
Abstract
One journalist tactfully put Borek Sipek's indisposition to interviews down to 'East European gravitas'. Frankly, I wouldn't be so generous, but then I am somewhat biased. When he was in Hong Kong recently, he altered the time and venue of our interview four times, the last alteration being half an hour before we were due to meet - and even then he was fifteen minutes late doing some last minute shopping. I thought I was remarkably amenable, all considered, but still my questions were met with a monosyllabic reply or stony silence and a dismissive wave of the hand. No scope for cosy confidence here, then.
However, I did want to find out what Borek Sipek had been working on for the past few years. There was a flood of articles written on him in the late eighties, but this slowed to a trickle, then dried up all together by the beginning of the nineties. His popularity was at its height at the time when the prefix 'designer' sanctioned an outlandish price tag that people seemed to enjoy the shelling out for. When coupled with the craftman's ethic of individuality and the romance of his Czech emigré history, Sipek's products acquired something of a 'must-have' exclusively in the late eighties.
Description
Building Name: Het Kruithuis Museum
Building Type(s): Museums
Architect: Sipek, Borek
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Article
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Date
1996
Language
en