Eclectico Studio – Știrbei Palace

Event title: Hotel Discret. Graphic and product design from Romania produced between 1950 and 1990. A retrospective organized by Eclectico Studio and Atelierul de Grafică Night of Museums Program: 18.00 - 04.00

Address: Știrbei Palace, Calea Victoriei no. 107-109, 1st floor, district 1, Bucharest Telephone: +40746.488.170

E-mail: studio@eclectico.eu

www.eclectico.eu, www.atelieruldegrafica.ro

Opening: 17th May, 18.00 The exhibition is open until 31 May, 11.00-19.00 Artists: Unknown Romanian graphic designers Hotel Discret is a major retrospective devoted to product and graphic design made in Romania between 1950 and 1990. Our idea was to create an exhibition that would host, in a homogenous context, urban signs, volumetric letters and specific grocery products packaging designed and produced in Romania, in the second half of the 20th century. Unfortunately, all these objects disappeared gradually and discreetly from the public space. The starting point of our project was undoubtedly constituted by the social transformations and those that have occurred at urban level, which impacted and still impregnate the “throwaway society” we live in. As opposed to Western society, in Romania, the tradition of salvaging and reconditioning and the practice of reintroducing these objects into a more commercial sphere, lacks almost entirely, despite their crucial importance in the history of local graphic design. On the occasion of the 10th edition of the Night of Museums, we planned to put under the spotlight an impressive array of products that surprise the public with their design, the ludic approach and their minimalism and geometric composition that seem remarkably contemporary.

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