Lenka Kühnertová, born in Prague, studied communication design at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. She discovered her love of textiles during her studies through a project-related semester project. In 2014, she founded Kühnertová Manufaktur am Neckartor and has since been offering tailor-made design concepts with individual screen printing and a narrative approach for projects in the fields of architecture, interior design, interior decoration and fashion. Each product is created on site in their Stuttgart factory using elaborate textile screen printing. Hand printing enables a flexible surface design with special print effects, the colors are lightfast, washable and environmentally friendly. Kühnertová mixes the printing inks herself in order to have control over the result down to the last nuance, with liquid pigments allowing the finest dosages. Once the motif, material and color determination phase is complete, the films for exposure and the screen stencils for flat printing are created. The motifs are manually transferred to the film with black ink or plotted out. Each product is unique.

Lenka Kühnertová attaches particular importance to being close to her customers: once a month, she opens the doors of the manufactory and invites customers and interested parties to a jour fixe with different thematic focuses. The designer then gives an insight into the creative processes, explains textile printing and answers questions about her work.

www.kuehnertova.com

Photos:

Joel Micah Miller
www.joel-miller.net

(Published in CUBE Stuttgart 02|20)