Prékopa Ágnes (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 31. (Budapest, 2017)

Zsombor JÉKELY: The Museum of Applied Arts in 2016

international standard, as well as innovation- and market-orientation.

Design management involves all the processes that promote innovation and successfully increase an organisation’s efficiency in the areas of communication, branding, design processes, business decisions and service development. In practice design management can be the most successfully applied when it is integrated into the operational mechanism of an organisation, thus resulting in a design-centred approach and organisational management. All of this year’s nominees embrace design awareness in their management practices.

The installation of the show was designed this year by the Medence Group, who created a truly unique space. The concept, based on the pure white world of studios, focused on the exhibits displayed in an unconventional fashion. The objects were placed unusually close to the ground, thus inviting visitors to view and be acquainted with these objects more intimately.

Breuer—At Home Again 8 December 2016 - 21 June 2017 Curators: Eva Horányi, Tamás Dévényi, Pál Ritoók. Realized in cooperation with the Hungarian Museum of Architecture

Thanks to the financial support of the Central Bank of Hungary (Magyar Nemzeti Bank), the conference table from the former furnishings of the New York office of the world-famous architect and furniture designer of Hungarian origin, Marcell Breuer, arrived at the Budapest Museum of Applied Arts in autumn 2016. Although Breuer is

3. Conference table designed by Marcell Breuer for his New York office, 1936, 1963, shown in the exhibition Breuer—At Home Again. Deposit of the Central Bank of Hungary

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