10.11.2009
ISKRA: Non-Aligned Design 1946-1990
12 November 2009-28 February 2010. Architecture Museum of Ljubljana, Fužine Castle. Overview exhibition organized by the Architecture Museum of Ljubljana and Pekinpah Association.
You are invited to attend the opening of the exhibition ISKRA: NON-ALIGNED DESIGN 1946-1990 on Thursday, 12 November 2009 at 8 p.m. at the Architecture Museum of Ljubljana at Fužine Castle. The exhibition will be officially opened by Mr Gregor Golobič, the Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology.The Architecture Museum of Ljubljana and the Pekinpah Association has prepared an overview exhibition on the development of design at the Slovene company Iskra. The selection of items presented dates from the period of the company’s founding in 1946 to the breakup of the Iskra Group in the early 1990s. Both the exhibition and the monograph focus on the period 1960-85. The year 1960 marks the end of the integration process that ended with the founding of the Iskra Group and the company’s research and development institute. The company ensured the concentration of development personnel and equipment in one place, yielding the right conditions for the development of its own know-how and its application to products. The main focus of the exhibition is the industrial and graphic design items that resulted from Iskra’s know-how and its design department’s efforts, with emphasis on technological progress.
The entire project also marks the 30th anniversary since the launch of Iskra’s internationally recognized telephone, the ETA 80, by the distinguished Slovene designer Davorin Savnik.