Dechem Studio

DECHEM studio was established in Prague in 2012 by Michaela Tomiskova and Jakub Jandourek. They first met at the Novy Bor School of Glass, where they both fell in love with this earliest synthesised material in human history. While Michaela went on to study product design at AAAD Prague and later worked for several acclaimed design studios, Jakub continued to hone his skills in the lighting industry, specialising in glass workmanship, technology, and manufacturing. Since establishing Dechem studio they have focused on product design and maintained a special attention to glass, exploring traditional Bohemian craft techniques and the surprising connections of its various forms.

"Glass, just like people or trees, is perfectly capable of being shaped and formed. One can imprint just about anything into it, give it a form, capture a passing moment, breath a new life into it. Later it stiffens and freezes like a petrified fossil, like magma, like a witness. No one can move it. It is solid as a rock and if you urge it, it rather shatters into pieces than to surrender..."
Michaela Tomišková & Jakub Janďourek