Ulgador

The Brand

Since 1996, the Ulgador workshop has been creating collections of wallpapers, wall panels, eglomise glass and objects gilded with beaten metal leaf. Ulgador uses unique processes for applying, oxidizing and corroding gold, brass, copper, silver and aluminium leaf. At the crossroads of alchemy, art and craftsmanship, the Ulgador workshop has forged a unique identity. Founded by Hungarian artist Gabor Ulveczki, Ulgador is a focal point of experience and inspiration, constantly reinventing and challenging its own medium. 

Applying metal leaf to glass, paper, wood and textiles, Ulgador creates surfaces with vibrant, changing and almost undefinable colors. But the creativity goes beyond alchemy and the unexpected responses of different metals. Ulgador treats surfaces like substances, creating designs that lend artistic expression and a powerful visual identity to interiors where panels are introduced in the form of wallpaper, screens, credenzas, table tops and doors. Flowers, plants, jacquard designs, graphic and geometric lines come to life in the skilled hands of Gabor Ulveczki and his daughter Rahel, who has brought her own individual perspective to the family studio.  

Perfectly Imperfect: A Unique Artistic Vision

A rising figure on the artistic scene in Budapest, Gabor left his native Hungary for France as a political refugee in 1983. Once there, he had to re-invent his life. He learned the art of gilding at a framing studio, moving on to restoring frescoes and paintings. Beaten sheet metal (copper, brass, silver, gold and aluminium) became his primary material and gilding his basic medium. Once he’d mastered the technique, his artistic soul took over again and he began to experiment. His style is mainly the result of his unusual and highly personal use of material. Imperfections and “accidents” are the absolute essence of his work. 

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