Biography

Industrial designer, writer and lecturer Jindřich Halabala was a significant pioneer of modernist, industrially produced furniture in Czechoslovakia.

He played a leading role in the development of modern Czech design in the 1920s and 1930s and had a major influence on home decor in the interwar and postwar periods.

Halabala was born with a talent for wood. He first learned carpentry in his father's workshop before studying architecture at the School of Applied Arts in Prague. His focus here was on the design of furniture and interiors. By the time he completed his studies in 1926, he was already producing his first furniture and carpet designs and was briefly employed in Bohumil Hübschmann's studio in Prague before becoming, among other things, the head designer and business manager of the UP Závody company. During his time at the company, it eventually developed into the largest furniture manufacturer in the country.

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Objects by Jindřich Halabala