At the 2026 Salone del Mobile in Milan, Prostoria presented Revisiting Richter, an exhibition project and new collection that, for the first time, brings the furniture designs of Vjenceslav Richter — one of the key figures of Croatian modernism — into production.
The Richter collection is structured into five units — VR51, VR52, VR53, VR58 and VR61 — comprising around twenty products developed from archival drawings, models, and prototypes.
Revisiting Richter was developed in collaboration with design studios Neisako, Numen / ForUse and Grupa, together with Prostoria’s in-house R&D team. Through a process of analysis and reconstruction, Richter’s concepts were translated into a contemporary production context and adapted to today’s standards of technology and comfort.
Revisiting Richter is about reconnecting with a cultural moment in which design had meaning, responsibility and a clear direction — and about making those ideas live again today.
Vjenceslav Richter worked across architecture, art and design — treating them as one continuous field. As part of EXAT 51 and New Tendencies, he helped shape a culture of experimentation that connected Zagreb to an international network of ideas. His work moved between disciplines, from spatial systems to early explorations of cybernetics, kinetic and optical art.
