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Sale 2022 - spring cleaning in our warehouses until 30.1.2022

Exclusive Jindřich Halabala collection

Incredible wooden artworks by Antonín Hepnar

Lamp B1/15610 Prominent designed in the eighties by Karel Volf for Prague hotel

Armchair designed by the famous architect Karel Prager for the building of Federální shromáždění

We design interiors - Residence in Prague

Sale 2022 - spring cleaning in our warehouses until 30.1.2022

Exclusive Jindřich Halabala collection

Incredible wooden artworks by Antonín Hepnar

Lamp B1/15610 Prominent designed in the eighties by Karel Volf for Prague hotel

Armchair designed by the famous architect Karel Prager for the building of Federální shromáždění

We design interiors - Residence in Prague

Coffee table Sika Møbler

€ 808

A coffee table known as the Spider, made by the Danish furniture manufacturer Sika Møbler in the 1970s. The wooden structure is made from the tropical hardwood teak, which allows it to be slender yet strong. The two sections of the base slot into each other and can be taken apart for easy storage. The wooden base supports a circular glass top with a bluish-grey tint. The table is in a very good condition, with only light scratches on the glass top, which are visible in the photographs.

Cabinet U-458

€ 1 024

New

A cabinet from the U-450 series originally designed in 1958 by Jiří Jiroutek (*1928). Mr. Jiroutek conceived the U-460 when he was just 30 years old. It stood out from other designs of the time with its shape, inventive details, and modern colours – and above all, it was available to the public. Lower production costs also allowed Mr. Jiroutek to focus more on the details in his design. This model was so successful that it remained in production for an incredible 20 years. In 2018, exactly 60 years after its initial release, we launched reissue of this icon of Czechoslovak design in a ceremony at the Designblok festival in Prague (read more). During our renewal of production, we worked in close cooperation with Jiří Jiroutek, with whom we consulted about our choice of materials and all the manufacturing details. The cabinet is completely handmade in the Czech Republic using solid spruce with an oak veneer and a semi-matte finish. The drawers were originally plywood, but we now make them from solid beech. Aside from this innovation, the entire cabinet is made precisely according to the original design. In 2019, we received the Elle Decoration Edida Prize in the furniture category for our reissue of these classic cabinets. Packaging

Armchair H-221

€ 5 770

Armchair model H-221, designed by Jindřich Halabala in the 1930s for the company Uměleckoprůmyslové Závody. The birth of modern tubular steel furniture design dates back to 1925, when Marcel Breuer constructed his first prototype armchair using the material. After 1930, interest in tubular steel furniture grew steadily, and it began to be used not only in functionalist interiors but also in mass-produced pieces aimed at the broader public. The ingenuity of Halabala’s designs lay in his utilization of the spring-like properties of steel tubing to create constructions based on a single, curved line. His decision to design a chair without front legs was due to the issue of suspension. He said, “In the earlier models, the flexibility was one-sided. With these chairs, the design is chosen so that the chairs have the same range of backward and forward flexibility. This avoids the falling sensation that one felt with backward springing chairs.” Halabala saw steel furniture as a light and transparent alternative to earlier wooden designs. Halabala's most important models date from 1931, so his work was at the forefront of the development of the industry and became some of the most well-known and exclusive furniture of its kind. These two particular armchairs underwent a complete refurbishment in our workshop. The wooden parts have been refinished with a matte coating of natural oils and waxes. Our restoration of the cushions involved replacing all of the horsehair and natural plant fibre stuffing while preserving the original spring system.

The word Nanovo in Czech means something "anew", "afresh" or "again". We stumbled upon the name of our shop as we were chilling at Berlin's university in 2009. Two years later in 2011 our Nanovo shop opened. We are a shop with Czechoslovak and international post-war design, we sell and renovate furniture and we also design interiors. In 2016 we have received the Czech Grand Design Award "Shop of the Year". In 2019, we were awarded the EDIDA Award - Elle magazine award for Jiří Jiroutek's furniture reissue.