Design Lighting

Czech glass makers are amongst world-renowned ones and Filip Houdek, a glass maker whose lighting designs decorate households, luxurious hotels and yachts both in our country and abroad, is living proof.

Filip Houdek designs and constructs indoor and outdoor lighting, ranging from "smaller" table lamps to monumental chandeliers, as well as glass interior accessories, which are inspired by industrial design and free art. Each and every piece of his unique products adds an ethereal tint to your home. Filip Houdek successfully finished studies at the Secondary School of Glassmaking in Kamenicky Senov, the oldest glass making school in Europe, and graduated from the Novy Bor Glass School, a prestigious technical institute. Thanks to international internships at Glass Design Center, Leerdam and Design Center, Utrecht, Filip Houdek sharpened his own style of work and perfected the art of glass making as a craft. After returning from abroad, Filip Houdek co-founded HG Atelier Design, a design studio, which gained world-wide success and boasts a portfolio that includes contracts for millions of Czech crowns as well as smaller ones, dedicated to common clients with extraordinary expectations. Products designed solely by Filip Houdek combine metal and glass in both traditional and innovative glass making techniques. The artist himself describes his work as "classic light making", however, if you search through the presented projects, you will easily notice that he is quite fond of experiments. Filip Houdek puts emphasis in the connection of clean lines of glass and stainless steel, and he is good at it – the glass art items by Filip Houdek look incredibly good and, at the same time, fill the interior or outdoor space with a warm light. Thanks to his serious attitude and years of experience, Filip Houdek belongs to the glass makers & artists who are able to go through the complete process of glass making, from the first design concept to the realization. He has won several Czech and international awards and implemented projects in hotels, large stores and restaurants not only on his home soil, but also in other European countries and in Asia. Take a look at the glass projects designed by Filip Houdek and let yourself be enchanted by the perfection of traditional Czech glass making, which is known world-wide.