Eszter Tábi

Eszter Tábi’s work focused on the placement of simple geometric forms within proportion-based systems. In designing her functional objects, she draws inspiration primarily from the formal language of the Bauhaus and the Memphis Group. She is particularly interested in how humanity’s vocabulary of forms and patterns has developed over time and how it became embedded in our visual culture. She considers it essential that her works respond sensitively to user experience, and she seeks to reapproach familiar forms from unexpected perspectives.

ABOUT THE DESIGNER

Eszter Tábi graduated from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2024, specializing in Ceramic Design within the Object Design program. In 2023, she won the MOME-sponsored award in the Student category of the Pécs Ceramics Triennial. Creating in a community is important to her; in 2025, she co-founded the AMMA studio with a friend, where they are building a ceramicist community while also supporting young talent. Her practice explores the interplay between geometric forms and systems of motifs.

INTERNATIONAL APPEARANCES AND AWARDS

Exhibitions:

• 2025
  • FRESH FIShEs XVII.
• 2024
  • Pécs – Object – Creation
  • Pécs Ceramics Art Triennial
• 2023
  • 360 Design Budapest

Award:

• 2024 – Student Prize offered by MOME at the Pécs Ceramics Art Triennial

ABOUT THE EXHIBITED OBJECT

SET for PET (2024)

SET for PET is a three-piece, aesthetically pleasing, customizable feeding set designed for small and medium-sized pets. It offers design-based solutions to common health issues affecting both dogs and cats. The series includes a standard bowl, a slow-feeder bowl, and a water bowl that can be fitted with a water filter. Thanks to its thoughtfully designed form, the set can naturally blend into modern home interiors.

Argument (2025)

The pattern formed on the surface of the object group is a natural, uncontrollable imprint of the making process. This harmony is consciously disrupted by Eszter Tábi through the use of precise geometric shapes placed at the rims of the vases, rendered in the three primary colors. Her aim was to revive and reinvigorate a technique that has become almost trivial today, by confronting unexpected contrasts—evoking both natural and human-made systems at the same time.