Studio Olgoj Chorchoj was founded in 1990 during the Vitra Design Museum workshop led by Denis Santachiara. At that time Michal Froněk (1966) and Jan Němeček (1963) studied at Academy of Arts in Prague. Their first projects involved design of experimental seating and interior concepts. At the begining Studio Olgoj Chorchoj´s creativity took on wide range of work from light-generating ready-made objects, glass vases, porcelain-made sets and titanium jewellery to architectural projects. Its designs stressed the use of technology and natural materials.
An important period of Studio Olgoj Chorchoj´s history, right from the technological point of view, was the fourniture made of plywood produced in numericaly controlled engines. This set of tables and shelfes named „Škoda tables“ was used for advertisement of Paul Smith and was exhibited in Europe and USA.
In 1999 Studio Olgoj Chorchoj exposed together with Eva Eisler and grafic studio Najbrt the karbon tables and basins in Radio House in New York. These can be found in colections of Metropolitan Museum of N.Y. A couple of project were realized in this period, such as an interior for PPF company, The Dynamo restaurant and several privat large-room flats. It is necessary to mention the cooperation with porcelain factory Epiag Dálovice. The porcelain set called „Marnotratné tvary“ („The Lavish Shapes“) was made in here. The name was found in reaction to the postmodernistic tendences. The „double wall“ appeared here for the first time and was used for many times after. According to an order of the firm Techo, studio set up the colaboration with glass factory in Včelnička. The final product took name „Dutá“: a glass with a concave stalk.
In the beginning of ninetees Studio Olgoj Chorchoj started to cooperate with Glass works of Zdeněk Lhotský „Tavená plastika Pelechov“, which concentrates its production on the unique technology of melting large blocks of glass. Things coming from their team work were lately exposed in common exhibition,which took place in Prague casel with the name „Ornament by technology“.
Since 2000 Studio Olgoj Chorchoj has been cooperating with glass factory Kavalier in Moravia. Studio Olgoj Chorchoj projected for them the drinking set „Look“ made of flame-ware, later on double-wall set Twinwall, vases „Gap“ were made for Gandy gallery and together with Moss gallery in New York a set of tubes lights in the shape of cross and candellabre. A certain success came with cooperation between Studio Olgoj Chorchoj and Vitrun Praha s r.o the producer of laboratory glass. A set of table and floor candellabres was the result. In 2003S tudio Olgoj Chorchoj exposed a new set of vases in Vessel Gallery London, which were producted in Moser glassfactory.
In 2005 Studio Olgoj Chorchoj started a very intesive colaboration with glassworks Květná, for which the drinking set were projected : Konus, Ez, Cut, Mr. Egg, and so on.The glassfactory Květná is specialised on hand–made and traditional technolgical procedures, which correspondes with the design intentions of Studio Olgoj Chorchoj. In 2006 the set Mr. Egg was aworded with Design Plus awords on tradefair Ambiente. In the same year the butch production of Beer glasses for Pilsner-Urquell devoted to the wholeworld trade took up. These were made in the production of the firm Rastal.
Jan Rosický, Lars Kemper, Pavol Mikuláš and Petr Mikošek are the most involved in glass projects.
An important part of the team work is the design of interiors and reconstruction of the historical objects and industrial buildings.
Daniel Paterko and Ondřej Kopečný are working on realisation of several flats and family houses in presence. Six years long project of conversion of prague ham-factory into multifunctional building is finishing now, the name is M-Factory. The wooden house in Čenětice is finished. Several family houses are waiting for their realisation in Černošice near Prague. The project of house reconstruction in Petrské squer in Prague is held nowadays. Many forces are put also into urbanistic project in Odolena Voda or the finishing reconstruction of the Centr of modern therapies Zelená Antilopy in Prague – Holešovice atd.
Several years lasting architectonical project of shaping the sound studio Soundsqure was projected by Jan Rosický, the second fase was realised by Juraj Smoleň and the third one and finishing was made by Mahulena Svobodová.
One of the very actual thing is cooperation with the firm Prim (the old czech sign of the watches producers, now renew) on colection of hand watches. In 2007 studio started to cooperate with refounded UP závody.
Michal Froněk and Jan Němeček are the leadrs of atelier of design products in Academy of Arts in Prague.
