The exhibition is divided into four parts. The first section
describes activities of the School of Arts in Zlin
functioning in 1939-45, works of the sculptor Vincenc
Makovsky - the first artist in our country to cooperate with
designers. For comparison, documentation of the world
development of organic morphology of industrial design at
that time is also displayed.
The second section introduces the work of Zdenek Kovar and
his first pupils who were engaged in works for machinery
industry. Dominating here is a laminate copy of the arm of
horizontal cutter F2 from 1945.
The largest space is devoted to objects of daily use
comprising a wide range of electric appliances - vacuum
cleaners, mixers, flat-irons, coffee-makers, lamps, first TV
set of Czechoslovak industrial production, wireless sets,
telephone sets, typewriters and sewing machines.
The last section provides a brief outline of designers of
transport vehicle bodies. Drawings and models document
passenger cars and lorries, tractors, aeroplanes,
locomotives and railway carriages from Vagonka Tatra
Studenka, CKD Praha and Skoda Plzen in construction of which
the concepts of industrial design were also taken into
consideration. Works on a saloon carriage for J.V.Stalin are
documented here. Industrial production in this field is
represented i.a. by the scooter CZ 175 from 1959, a sidecar and the one-fifth model of
T603 car.
The atmosphere of the 40s to 60s is evoked by photographs of
architecture, applied art and the World Exhibition Expo 58.
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