Deák Design
Deák Design offers sustainable, handcrafted glass objects inspired by nature, Hungarian heritage and Eastern aesthetics.
ABOUT THE DESIGNER
Zsuzsanna Éva Deák is the founder of Deák Design. Her works reflect sustainability, material experimentation and craftsmanship. In 2023, her Re-built Glass project was awarded by EDIDA and longlisted at the PULSE Awards.
INTERNATIONAL APPEARANCES AND AWARDS
Awards and Recognition:
- 2023 – EDIDA – Sustainable Initiative of the Year Award: Re-built Glass Doors (Design Oscar)
- 2023 – PULSE Awards longlist: Re-built Glass in the Product Design category, selected among Hungary’s top 5 projects
Grants and Competition Successes:
- 2016 – SZTE TDK 1st Prize: Töredék glass sculpture
- 2017 – Kass90+ Competition Winner: Dilemma glass sculpture
- 2018 – Sófi Scholarship – Special Jury Award
- 2018/19 – New National Excellence Program Scholarship (SZTE)
- 2018/19 – National Higher Education Scholarship
- 2018 – SZTE TDK two 1st Prizes: Labyrinth, Extro-introversion glass sculptures
- 2019 – Sófi Scholarship – Gold Level
- 2021/22 – New National Excellence Program Scholarship (MOME) – Re-built Glass research project
Highlighted Exhibitions:
- 2017 – Hungarian Artisan Masterpiece exhibition – Deák Design Vase
- 2022 – 360 DESIGN BUDAPEST – Re-built Glass movable glass wall, Bálna
- 2023 – 360 DESIGN BUDAPEST – Re-built Glass modular coffee tables, Adria Palace
- 2022 – Part of Balázs Horváth’s contemporary Hungarian glass art collection: All That Glitters Is Not Gold vase
Public Commissions:
- Restoration of the dome interior of the Synagogue of Szeged (1996–1997, as glass designer at Szilánk Glass)
- Cross-shaped stained glass above the entrance of Ruzsa Church (architect: Péter Novák)
- Saint Margaret stained glass – Fénysugár Catholic Kindergarten Chapel, Szeged
- Decorative glass for stairwell, Kölcsey Street 11, Szeged (commissioned by Ferroép Zrt.)
- Stained glass windows and bent glass info desk – Dóm Hotel, Szeged
- Windows of Belvárosi Étterem No1 – commissioned by Délfa
- Saint Francis leaded glass – Szent Miklós Parish Chapel, Szeged
- Restoration of Poór Sándor’s stained glass – Artisan Bank 1896, Szeged
- Bagolyvár Reconstruction, Vésztő – Károly Kós drawings adapted into stained glass, schwarzlott technique (2020)
- Complete stained glass restoration – Synagogue of Kőszeg (2021)
- Stained glass restoration – former children’s home, Veszprém (2022)
- Leaded glass window – Királyhegyes Church (2023)
- Decorative glass – Funeral Hall, Domaszék
ABOUT THE EXHIBITED OBJECT
Balaton Collection (2020)
Created in 2020, the Balaton Collection is inspired by the iconic Lake Balaton in Hungary, reflecting its vibrant colors and whimsical waves. Through fusing technology and unique manual forming, each vase embodies an organic form and a distinctive color pattern, featuring turquoise, dark blue, topaz, and orange tones reminiscent of summer moods.
