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INFINITY IN THE BUDAPEST HALL OF ART

MANOOI was proud to have been present at the 2nd National Salon of Applied Arts and Design 2022 with a very special crystal light creation. Two hundred eight artists first came together during the first Salon of Applied Arts and Design in the Műcsarnok (the Budapest Hall of Art) in 2017, showcasing the latest developments in the Hungarian art scene. Now, at the 2nd Salon exhibition, which took place this year, more than 300 members were in attendance, and 10 branches of art shared a ‘common space’. The concept was to show the “Form of Time”. Seen from below, our INFINITY model forms the number eight, or a Lemniscate when viewed from its side. The infinity symbol signifies the concept of limitlessness or eternity, especially when used in mathematics and or when talking about the feelings of true love.

INFINITY – THE INFINITE GLAMOUR

We produce our crystal chandeliers in our very own workshop using traditional artisanship. This classic technology allows us to create one-of-a-kind lighting creations. They are unique pieces of art that add immense character to the scheme. Its never ending loops awake the power of the infinity and due to this it symbolize eternity, empowerment, and everlasting positiveness.

The 2nd National Salon of Industry and Design at the Műcsarnok (the Budapest Hall of Art) on Hungarian designers’ most exciting works. One of the most prominent participants of the exhibition was the MANOOI crystal chandelier manufactory, whose co-owner and designer Judit Zoltai was interviewed.

MANOOI at the S/ALON BUDAPEST

DESIGN DAY 2022

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World Industrial Design Day 2022: Discussing the connection between leadership and design

Modern crystal chandelier manufacturer, MANOOI is proud to have taken part in celebrating World Industrial Design Day 2022 at the ONYX Restaurant in Budapest on 29 June. It marked the 65th anniversary of the World Design Organisation (WDO), an organisation which has been championing design for a better world for over six decades.

On this year’s occasion, representatives of the Hungarian Design Council and others focused on the WDO’s theme of leadership and the many ways in which designers are leading the charge towards a better future.

MANOOI’s founder, designer and company manager, János Héder, was among the high-level participants in an informal round-table discussion on “Design – Business – Well-being”. He and others shared their recipes for success as designers, offering advice and insights on their business models and management strategies.

Having grown up in a society where almost everyone had the same mass-produced, utilitarian objects in their homes, János has always been a proponent of the evolution of design, to which he attributes his company’s success as a creator of modern, bespoke chandeliers.

“In my parents’ flat I used to have various ideas on how things should look or how it was possible to improve them,” he recalls, adding that he has a special appreciation for silverware, plates, or furniture that is well thought out.

The venue for the World Industrial Design Day 2022 celebration, Budapest’s ONYX Restaurant, also embodies such sentiments, as a laboratory for gastronomy, art and science – all equally important parts of the creative process. Cooks, pastry chefs, food designers, food engineers and sommeliers there all come together to create something special for their audience.

During the round table discussion two different worlds came together and shared their experiences and thoughts of the imporance of leadership in business development, strategy.

János Héder, our founder and art director proudly shared our story, the birth of the MANOOI Universe and importance of design in business development and strategic planning.

Crystal and colour combinations

MANOOI light creations are only made with premium-quality crystals: full-cut octagon pieces specially carved to recall the look of diamonds. This special crystal cut helps to absorb natural light and to create the incomparable sparkling effect that only a crystal can provide. Its optical traits can break down visible light into spectra, resulting in colour combinations like those of a rainbow.

We use various sized crystal pieces / octagons to give a streamlined shape and an airy effect to our light creations. Most of our chandeliers are available in coloured versions, too. These crystals are coloured within their own material to ensure the durability of the colours for eternity.

Alongside transparent versions, and our nine standard colour combinations, we are ready and able to create custom colour combinations as an element of your bespoke chandelier. During the years MANOOI crystal chandeliers were born in many different colours upon our customers imaginations. Between many thousands of colour combinations, we selected the nine most popular colour combinations to make the choice easier.

When your space requires a custom lighting design, we provide flexible service to fulfil your wishes and enhance customised interiors.

Every one of our tailor-made chandeliers is the fruit of a common planning process by our team of developers to provide an exclusive and personal illumination to your interior.

STANDARD COLOUR COMBINATIONS

AURORA BOREALIS

AUTUMN NIGHT

AUTUMN SKY

CHERRY BLOSSOM

SPRING FLOWERS

SUMMER BREEZE

SUMMER HEAT

WINTER PINES

WINTER SKY

Index Dubai 2022

This year’s Dubai Index was the 30^th internationally hosted exhibition, welcoming more than 1,000 local and international companies. The Dubai Trade Show as an international exhibition is a platform where visitors get to meet and mingle with trendy start-ups, local businesses, and world-famous brands in the interior design world. The 2022 show was an amazing collection of furnishing trends, and a buyer’s paradise. MANOOI is proud to have presented its iconic chandeliers at the exhibition. Our all-time favorite ARTICA chandelier welcomed visitors at our stand who delighted at its timeless design. Next, they were greeted by the KOI, which shone with all the glory of an Autumn Sky, as part of Manooi’s “new standard colors” system.

Fans of modern design trends could marvel at the Personal Universe collection, as our HALO and FINELINE models enchanted visitors with their glow.

We would like to thank everyone who visited our team at the stand at Index Dubai 2022, and we look forward to presenting next year as well to provide more exceptional solutions for extraordinary spaces.

Comprising a myriad of crystals in a circular work of art, TONDO boosts the Personal Universe Collection. Here, Manooi’s crystal chain expertise is combined with contemporary design.

INFINITY at the Common Space Exhibition

Common Space | 2nd National Salon of Applied Arts and Design 2022

208 artists came together during the first Salon of Applied Arts and Design in 2017 in the Műcsarnok (the Budapest Hall of Art) in 2017, showcasing the latest developments in the Hungarian art scene. Now, at the second Salon exhibition, with more than 300 members in attendance, 10 branches of art will share a ‘common space’. Ranging from post-industrial design to the most recent works of autonomous studio art, from objects of everyday use to fine art experiments. Artists from four generations have contributed their works, from doyens to exciting up-and-coming designers. The exhibition is in the curator András B. Szilágyi’s theme, the “International Year of Glass 2022”.

MANOOI is proud to present a very special crystal light creation in the Műcsarnok at the 2nd National Salon of Applied Arts and Design 2022. The concept was to show the “Form of Time”. Seen from below, our INFINITY model forms the number eight, or a Lemniscate when viewed from its side. The infinity symbol signifies the concept of limitlessness or eternity, especially when used in mathematics and or when talking about the feelings of true love.

This contemporary chandelier symbolizes empowerment and everlasting beauty, with its dynamic form and through the power of never-ending loops. Allow the shape of this exclusive lighting solution to bring an artistic touch to your interior design project and set its playful and spirited design to bring a lasting effect to any setting.

The exhibition invokes Aristotle’s 10 categories to invite guests on a contemplative tour through the different objects at the exhibition and invites them to freely take in their surroundings. It shows two diverging paths along which the displays, which were realized in the past five years, can be enjoyed:

One leads guests from design-focused forms and materials to the realms of the shapeless and the abstract, while the other route invites guests on a journey from strict functionalism to autonomous art. Along these paths, visitors can walk from ceramics, the most ancient art, reminiscent of the birth of human civilization, all the way to the realm of virtual reality to give visitors a glimpse of the future. Although the displayed areas of art are distinct, being spatially linked at the exhibition, they present a continuous process. The mixing of different branches of creativity coupled with the two conceptual journeys creates inspiring crossroads, with new qualities and connections emerging at the meeting points.

The world of crystals

MANOOI – AMBILIGHT GATHERING OF DESIGNERS

MANOOI’s showroom hosted a gathering of industry partners whose aim was to introduce the company’s profile and chandeliers to the design profession in Hungary. MANOOI’s long-term partner Ambi Light invited leading designers and interior architects from Hungary to embark on an exciting design journey. Guests gained insight into the company’s history, from its inception to the present day. They got the chance to meet one of the founders of MANOOI, designer Judit Zoltai, who provided an abundance of inspiration. They were also introduced to the birth of MANOOI’s luxury crystal chandeliers and got acquainted with the various components, technical details and characteristics of the crystals it employs in its creations. The designers in attendance had their eyes opened to the versatile use of crystal chandeliers through inspiring and prestigious design projects, a true introduction to the MANOOI universe.

MANOOI chandeliers only are made with premium-quality crystals, due to the complexity of their manufacture. The chandeliers are made with full-cut octagon crystals with special grindings to recall the cut of diamonds. This special cut helps to absorb the natural light and to create the unique sparkling effect that only crystal can provide. We use different sizes of crystals to give a streamlined shape and an airy effect to our chandeliers. As a final touch, we decorate the chandeliers with various shape and style of crystal pendants.

Alongside transparent versions, and our nine standard colour combinations, we are ready and able to create custom colour combinations as an element of your bespoke chandelier.

ART & DESIGN

BIRTH OF A BESPOKE LIGHT CREATION

Experts of MANOOI always like to push their own boundaries. Manooi’s standard crystal chandeliers can be personalised as bespoke light creations to provide for differences in personal taste and to best complement the styles and colour schemes of the interiors in which they will be placed.

A special project took place in the soon-to-be the new Manooi atelier. Its extrem, 500-square-meter, 13-meter-high hall provides a generous space for our bespoke crystal chandeliers. Our unique size FJORD crystal chandelier debuted in this special interior. Its extreme height needed the generous space provided by the Manooi atelier.

Manooi’s quality control procedures ensure that production undergoes a rigorous inspection process so that each lighting creation meets and exceeds the highest standards. A special area of the workshop is dedicated to the design of Manooi’s bespoke chandeliers and to product development. Our expertise lies in creating fully customised chandeliers and other magnificent bespoke light creations. Creating a 6 meters high bespoke FJORD crystal chandelier was a very inspiring project for us, so much so that it needed to be shown to our audience.

Light is a piece of art and when it plays with crystals, it just recalles the elegant moves of a graceful balett dancer.

CREATIVE ENERGIES

CREATIVE ENERGIES

ONCE THERE WAS A TEXTILE FACTORY IN ÓBUDA

The Goldberger Textile Factory operated in Óbuda for two hundred years. The founder, Ferenc Goldberger, opened his blue painting plant in 1784. In the 19th century, the small company developed into a large textile factory, so successful that even Emperor Franz Joseph and his wife Sissi visited here. After the World War II, the factory was nationalized and began to decline. Following the change of regime, production decreased permanently in 1997. But the buildings still stand today. MANOOI has found the creative energy it has long been looking for in an impressive building complex in its thousands of square meters of ruins to create its magnificent crystal light creations.

“At MANOOI, creation is an integral part of our day, so it was important to find a place to expand our production of crystal chandeliers where we could also expand in space. We are in the area of the factory’s old energy center, where was the boiler house. The special atmosphere of the place, its vast spaces and its unadulterated industrial atmosphere make the hall such a creative powerhouse that the flow of creative energies is almost perceptible. ” – Judit Zoltai (CEO, designer)

The 500-square-meter, 13-meter-high hall still functioned as a boiler house at the time of the textile factory. Just as the factory functioned as an energy hub at the time, so will MANOOI’s creative energy hub.

In the future, the hall will simultaneously act as a contemporary exhibition space, a showroom and a cultural project space accessible to artists and creators.

BIRTH OF A BESPOKE LIGHT CREATION

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