Humpty Dumpty
Furniture: Radek Eisenwort (Moravia Interier Design, s.r.o.)
Lighting: Bachman
Painting, inscriptions: Petr Fiala & Petr Šťavík
Pattern painting: Malujeme jinak
Prints: Happy Fish
The investors, after returning from Britain, decided to open a café for parents with children in the center of Brno. They missed a place where children would not be relegated to the usual plastic play corners in adult cafés, and where they could learn English, paint, exercise, and cook. Humpty Dumpty primarily focused on children's needs, which determined the selection of space, food offerings, and programs, and even the interior and graphics.
The owners were inspired by the classic English children’s rhyme about the egg Humpty Dumpty for the name.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men,
couldn't put Humpty together again.
The rhyme became a fundamental guideline for the visual and spatial solution of the café, which is located in a former apartment on the ground floor of a rental house from the early 20th century. Each of the four rooms (bar, café, playroom, winter garden) is dedicated to one verse of the poem, which is interpreted through the furniture and painting. Visitors essentially walk through the text while moving around the café. At the same time, the goal was to partially maintain the character of the space as an apartment.
The furniture slightly differs in each room, but it maintains a common visual language, materials, and color scheme. Each verse is assigned a color and pattern that permeate the café.
The wish of both the investor and the architect was to create a space that is visually attractive and lively for children, but which avoids classic clichés in the use of washable materials and childish graphics. In Humpty Dumpty, children are not underestimated. For example, the café area features two-level tables that allow children to sit with their parents together, yet on their own furniture, which only differs from the "adult" version in size.
Custom furniture is made from lacquered welded profiles, solid wood, and wood chips. The supporting structures of the tables are shaped and colored to resemble children's building blocks. Contemporary furniture is complemented by several classic pieces, industrial chandeliers, and textiles with Scottish patterns. A piece of Britain in Brno.
Lighting: Bachman
Painting, inscriptions: Petr Fiala & Petr Šťavík
Pattern painting: Malujeme jinak
Prints: Happy Fish
The investors, after returning from Britain, decided to open a café for parents with children in the center of Brno. They missed a place where children would not be relegated to the usual plastic play corners in adult cafés, and where they could learn English, paint, exercise, and cook. Humpty Dumpty primarily focused on children's needs, which determined the selection of space, food offerings, and programs, and even the interior and graphics.
The owners were inspired by the classic English children’s rhyme about the egg Humpty Dumpty for the name.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men,
couldn't put Humpty together again.
The rhyme became a fundamental guideline for the visual and spatial solution of the café, which is located in a former apartment on the ground floor of a rental house from the early 20th century. Each of the four rooms (bar, café, playroom, winter garden) is dedicated to one verse of the poem, which is interpreted through the furniture and painting. Visitors essentially walk through the text while moving around the café. At the same time, the goal was to partially maintain the character of the space as an apartment.
The furniture slightly differs in each room, but it maintains a common visual language, materials, and color scheme. Each verse is assigned a color and pattern that permeate the café.
The wish of both the investor and the architect was to create a space that is visually attractive and lively for children, but which avoids classic clichés in the use of washable materials and childish graphics. In Humpty Dumpty, children are not underestimated. For example, the café area features two-level tables that allow children to sit with their parents together, yet on their own furniture, which only differs from the "adult" version in size.
Custom furniture is made from lacquered welded profiles, solid wood, and wood chips. The supporting structures of the tables are shaped and colored to resemble children's building blocks. Contemporary furniture is complemented by several classic pieces, industrial chandeliers, and textiles with Scottish patterns. A piece of Britain in Brno.
Ing. arch. Martin Hrdina
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