Nanovo: From the Cosy Dens of Another Time

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‘Who could possibly want such things?”
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Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Tallis’ latest piece for Torn Curtain looks at communist era domestic design and the politics of material memory in the Czech Republic. Focusing on the Nanovo furniture company, which rescues and restores classic modernist pieces, often overlooked in the banal homogeneity of post communist transition. Tallis argues that the domestic objects of this other time, this other modernism help provide a more nuanced view of the past and helps people to orient themselves in the present …

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