UPM Prague / Zika and Lida Ascher

The Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague is currently showing a remarkable exhibition about Zika and Lida Ascher.

With their extraordinary fabrics, they influenced the fashion industry. Zika Ascher celebrated his first major success in London with silk scarves. The scarves were designed by renowned artists such as Henry Moore and Henri Matisse. Ascher later supplied renowned fashion houses such as Dior, Pierre Cardin and Yves Saint Laurent with his fabrics. In their original homeland, however, the name of the textile manufacturers had fallen into oblivion.

The exhibition in Prague shows hundreds of exhibits – numerous fabrics as well as dresses, coats and blouses. In total, more than 300 wall elements with heights of 3 metres and 4 metres were used, including radius modules. A cinema with Mila-wall Acoustic walls was also built. The design and layout of the exhibition are of the highest standard and a perfect example of the flexibility of Mila-wall wall elements.

“The Mad Silkman”:

Mila-wall modular construction technology at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague

“For organising exhibitions at the Museum of Decorative Arts, it is important to have an exhibition system with which we can flexibly change the layout for one exhibition or another – a single system that meets all the parameters for different exhibitions, is modular, variable and compatible, and allows quick assembly. The result of our long search, lasting more than a year, was the Mila-wall system from the manufacturer MBA.”