How Egoé works
From idea and development to the production of the final product. These are the principles on which Egoé works. It does not matter whether it is outdoor furniture, furnishings, car interiors, small-area living or large-scale transport infrastructure projects. Three words are enough to understand – Ideas Make Products.
Where Egoé is at home
To make everything fit together, generous facilities are required. We have found this at Bílovice 519, Czech Republic. We are gradually transforming a brownfield, left over from a former agricultural cooperative, into a modern facility where we have combined the design studio, development, construction and all the production technologies – woodworking, metalworking, metallization and wet and powder coating.
What we can help you with
Through outdoor furniture and a modular gazebo system, we can bring the comfort of the indoors to your garden. With urban furnishings, we add a new use to public spaces. We put a camping built-in in the boot of your car. We will show you how to live fully in a home that does not take up your energy and time. And something for everyone – we will get every station under the roof.
What else you can find with us
When you stop by, we will let you in much further than the showrooms. Through the design trail, you can explore the entire premises. See where we are at home and feel inspired. Like the exhibitions we have outside and inside. You can experience the feelings of a maker in the art room or listen to a lecture in the training centre. And if one day is not enough, we have apartments and a large camp.
Us and sustainability
In all phases, from design through the selection of materials and technological processes to logistics, we take sustainability as a fundamental argument. It all starts with design, aiming for a 100% functional product with a moderate shape. It does not follow trends, so it can serve multiple generations. We use our own thermo-treated wood in production and heat the halls with biomass and heat recovery.
Egoé in numbers
- 250 employees in the Czech Republic and Poland
- Dozens of professions from designers to engineers to workers
- 30 export markets
- Eight administrative and production halls
- Seven product lines from skis to stations
- Three permanent galleries
- One training centre
- One camp
Four turning points
Design and win a competition? That is just the beginning. The real goal lies much further afield...
Zlín, Czech Republic, 1992. The city announces a competition for furniture. The winning design is by Radek Hegmon and David Karásek, students of the Zlín Design Studio of the Academy of Arts and Crafts. But winning is not the same as winning. In this case, the cramp comes. The problem is inherent in the design itself. Under the impression of the emerging trend of postmodernism and in the context of Zlín’s functionalism, the designers dealt mainly with shape. Technological limits or production laws were hardly touched at all. It was not possible to find a company that would ensure quality implementation. In the end, two bus stops were built in Zlín. But the authors do not feel like winners...
Team, context, creativity mixed with pragmatism. On the right track
The conclusion is clear – winning with a picture in a competition does not mean achieving the goal. That is to have a functional product in the public space. So, what does the right way look like? Respect all contexts. From the relationship to the environment to the limits of production and subsequent operation. To do this, however, you need to involve several professions in the process, the designer must not be a solitaire. It starts with team building – engineers, economists, salespeople, marketers. Only from the never-ending confrontation between creativity and pragmatism can a good compromise emerge – a mass-producible product.
Big challenge. Special projects are being added to the furnishings
One studio becomes two. Egoé studio focuses on projects in transport infrastructure – station canopies and noise barriers. A different scale means a larger footprint in public space than that left by the furniture. The natural boundaries between architecture and design are therefore sought. The resulting work must not compete, it must respect its surroundings. To complete it or develop it...
Experience opens the way to other products
Complex team, products, experience with large projects. Egoé studio has established itself, it can venture into other areas. Authentic solutions aimed at private space are being created – outdoor furniture, camping built-ins for cars, skis, housing. This opens up avenues for customers to completely new user experiences...
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