Champagne Kisses desk
Champagne Kisses
Writing desk with a black marble top, fluted wood drawers and a brass cable flap.
Museum piece
Secret Desk
Unique transforming desk in oiled oak, leather and brass, made in only a few copies. In the permanent collection of the National Museum in Kraków.
Magdalena's diploma at the Faculty of Industrial Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (2012), supervised by Prof. Piotr Bożyk. A simple geometric desk in oiled oak with a leather top. Turn the brass crank and a worm gear lifts the leather accordion, revealing oak boxes and organisers; a hidden drawer opens after a 90-degree turn. The desk was nominated in the Best Design Diplomas of Polish Academies of Fine Arts 2012, received the rectors' honourable mention and was published by Gizmodo, Archiscene, MoCo Loco, Journal du Design and many others. After the “#dziedzictwo” exhibition (2017-2018) it entered the permanent collection of the National Museum in Kraków, and since December 2021 it has been on display in the Szołayski House, in the Gallery of 20th and 21st Century Polish Design “Przedmioty”.
- Collection
- Museum piece
- Materials
- Oiled oak, leather, brass
- Signature
- Every piece is signed with the designer's name: an engraved brass plate bearing the Magdalena Tekieli logo.
- Dimensions
- 94 × 74.5 × 77 cm
A unique piece made in only a few copies.
National Museum in Kraków
In the permanent collection of the National Museum in Kraków
Secret Desk was made in only a few copies. One of them belongs to the permanent collection of the National Museum in Kraków, Poland's largest museum.
In 2017 the desk was shown at “#dziedzictwo” (#heritage) in the museum's Main Building, one of the largest exhibitions in the museum's history. Over seven months, from 23 June 2017 to 14 January 2018, around 70,000 visitors saw more than 650 works telling the story of Polish identity, art and design across the centuries. Secret Desk was among them.
After the exhibition the museum added the desk to its collection. Since December 2021 it has been on permanent display in the Szołayski House, in the Gallery of 20th and 21st Century Polish Design “Przedmioty” (Objects), alongside the most important works of Polish applied art.
- #dziedzictwo
- 23 June 2017 - 14 January 2018, Main Building
- Exhibition
- 650+ works, around 70,000 visitors
- On display
- Szołayski House, plac Szczepański 9, Kraków
