Annabella Hevesi
Annabella Hevesi obtained her master’s degree as a design artist at the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design in 2020. Since 2018, she has been the lead designer of the Line and Round studio, where she initially deals with interior design tasks, and now with bespoke furniture design and product development. She and her company worked with clients such as the Hungarian House of Music, the Opera House, Sopron Basket and the Four Seasons Hotel. Her work has already received several domestic and international recognitions, including the Design Shanghai Best Commercial Product design award, the grand prize of Grassimesse in Leipzig, the gold rating of the A’Design award in Milan, the main prize of ArtHungry, the special prize of the Hungarian Design Award, and her work has been nominated twice for EDIDA Hungary in the Product of the Year category. In the past year and a half, she had the opportunity to present herself at various professional exhibitions – in Stockholm, Milan, Shanghai, Naples, Leipzig and Berlin. In 2024, one of her Roly-Poly lamps was included in the permanent collection of the Leipzig Museum of Applied Arts (Grassi Museum Für Angewandte Kunst Leipzig), as well as a Dedas sofa in the contemporary design collection of the Hungarian Museum of Applied Arts. In addition, in 2023, together with Gábor Bella, they founded the Self and Scope brand, which focuses on the “productization” of their independent designs and their commercial activities.
About the brand
Line and Round was established by Annabella Hevesi, head of design, and Gábor Bella, head of production. It is an interdisciplinary studio that provides design services in the field of furniture, industrial and interior design. They design bespoke objects and develop products – from conceptualization and design research to the art direction of the final product. They deal with any scale – from the gadgets to the architectural dimensions – and any scope of the design process. Their approach walks a fine line between poetic and technological-oriented design. Their clients are brands, manufacturers, architects, and investors. They consider good design adaptive and responsive.
About the object
Pulses
Sou Fujimoto integrated the House of Music Hungary building into Budapest’s largest green area. The building acts as a transition between the indoor and outdoor spaces – its forms and surfaces are derived from nature. Annabella Hevesi was tasked with designing a unique sofa that provides seating for informal meetings of three people in an open, transitional space in front of a ramp. This area serves as a “lobby” for the building’s staff, where they can also invite guests. Due to the positive reception of the furniture, the operators eventually decided they wanted to use the sofa as a representative piece on stage as well. Additionally, the designer created two- and one-seater configurations. The concept reflects the building’s features and the spatial ecosystem analyzed by the designer – its lighting, types of spaces, the organic yet clean forms, and the warm, natural colors and materials. The curvature of the sofa follows a natural, additive structural design, becoming simpler and more generous toward the outer contour. The organic shape of the sofa is controlled with regular elements – for example, the slight inclination of the backrest is defined by a clean cut along a plane, referencing the geometric clarity of the building: while the building appears very organic, the floor plan is actually a regular circle.
