Chairs from Holešov appear in Hollywood movie

Greek screenwriter, director, and producer Yorgos Lanthimos is one of the stars of the current film scene. His 2023 film The Beguiled won a total of five Oscars (Best Actress, Production Design, Costume Design, and Makeup and Hairstyling), as well as seven additional nominations.

At the end of August, he presented his latest film, Bugonia, to audiences at the 82nd Venice Film Festival. It will be released in theaters in October of this year. Trailers are already available, and in one of them you can see two chairs that were made in the late 1960s and early 1970s by Dřevopodnik Holešov for the Czechoslovak Embassy in Stockholm. The chairs can be seen from the 35th second.

“The chairs were designed by Jan Šrámek, Jan Bočan, and Oldřich Novotný. In addition to the embassy in Sweden, these chairs were also installed in the Intercontinental Hotel in Prague. Both buildings are among the best Czechoslovakian designs of their time, not only because of their brutalist style, which responded to global trends, but also because of the quality and quantity of the artwork in their interiors. These chairs are an integral part of this ‘gesamtkunstwerk’,” added Klára Jeništová, curator and author of the Small Architecture exhibition.

The Small Architecture exhibition can be visited at the Museum of Modern Art until October 12, 2025.