{"title":"Made in Hungary","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"manoconcept","title":"ManoConcept","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eIt starts with a culture that grows. In her studio in Dunaharaszti, Hungary, Marietta Mészáros, known as Manó, ferments kombucha until it yields a SCOBY, the membrane she then dries and works as a material in its own right. A former sous chef in two respected Bristol restaurants in the UK, where she cooked vegetarian and vegan food and already brewed her own kombucha, she kept a taste for slow, living processes. Every piece begins with reclaimed materials: upcycled wine bottle glass, a little brass, and this kombucha biomaterial that becomes a backdrop for the dried flowers or dandelion seeds set beneath the glass, as if suspended. The pendants hang from strands of Czech glass beads, strung into 45 cm necklaces that catch the light with every movement: black and faceted on some pieces, warm cappuccino-froth tones on others. Nothing repeats: the natural variations in the SCOBY, the glass and the flowers mean no two pieces are ever alike. Marietta works by hand, made to order, giving each stage the time it needs, sometimes up to a month. She calls her work Contemporary BioArt, a way of turning what we discard into something we keep.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CollectionEU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54801445912918,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0924\/9253\/0006\/files\/ManoVase.webp?v=1784826648"},{"product_id":"gabo-szerencses","title":"Gabo Szerencses","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSome earrings begin with an absence, the piece of leather cut away from the inner curve of a bracelet. Nothing that leaves the cutting table is treated as waste, and the small Zero Waste bags follow the same logic, made from what is left once the larger bags have been produced. Gabo Szerencses has been building the brand since 2008, after training with the masters of the Moholy-Nagy University in Budapest and with teachers in Barcelona. The bags are made in Hungary, in small runs. The designer carries and tests her own models, then reworks them, so that shape never takes precedence over use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe vocabulary stayed geometric for a long time, close to architecture, with the Y and Trapéz collections, clean lines and unmistakable geometry. The recent pieces move away from that on purpose, in soft leathers that ripple, feminine curves drawn from Asia, down to a belt bag named after a steamed dumpling and a backpack that borrows the shape of a wave. Leather relaxes with use and takes the form of whatever is kept inside; the brand recommends a silicone free beeswax conditioner twice a year. At the Budapest studio shop the colour can be chosen at no extra cost, and anyone can come and learn cutting, edge painting and the precision of gluing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CollectionEU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55075313910102,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0924\/9253\/0006\/files\/Gabobag1.jpg?v=1787497908"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.collectioneu.com\/collections\/made-in-hungary.oembed","provider":"CollectionEU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}