Cubist Porcelain Vase by Pavel Janák - large, convex with black line

Janák's vases from 1911 are a lesson in great design - two shapes, three sizes, and five different decorations - elegant convex and concave curves decorated only with simple lines and stripes in black and gold, they look so contemporary that it is hard to believe they were designed almost 100 years ago. These are reproductions of originals stored at the UPM and the Moravian Gallery in Brno. The original collection of vases was made of porous clay, but we now use porcelain. The vases are crafted as hand-decorated glazed castings.

• Licensed replica
• Material: porcelain
• Manufacturer: Modernista
• 11 cm x 33 cm x 11 cm

Author Pavel Janák
1882–1956
A versatile creator: architect, urban planner, designer, and educator Pavel Janák was a leading theorist of the Czech Cubist movement, a proponent of interwar Art Deco and radical modernism embodied by functionalism, but also the author of excellent reconstructions of important historical buildings.