Meet the Makers / dagmar design
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Modern function meets timeless beauty in Dagmar Design’s
one-of-a-kind lighting fixtures, antiques and furniture.
By Kelly Sweeney
Born in the late 1970s as Dagmar Lamps, tural fragments. “The big-
Dagmar Design has grown into a Los Ange- gest challenge,” Zatloukal
les trade secret. Started by European artist reflects, “was taking the
Dagmar and her husband, Dagmar Lamps little workshop to the
was originally a lampshade atelier complete next level and collecting
with wiring department. The company drew my own inventory of un-
inspiration from the phrase, “Where modern usual objects to turn into
function meets timeless beauty.” When they decorative lighting.” She
retired in the ‘90s, Dagmar chose to turn the believes “pretty much
company over to her niece, Hana Zatloukal. anything could be turned
Zatloukal, born and raised in Czecho- into a lamp,” and has succeeded in
slovakia, emigrated to the United States in doing so with stone balustrades,
1985 at the age of 25 and began working in wrought iron door knockers, zinc
Dagmar’s workshop. She took evening classes roof finials and altar sticks. She
in interior design while working and raising mentions her all-time favorite is a
a five-year-old daughter. She cites this as a
Dagmar Design owner Hana Zatloukal at the showroom.
fragment of an old French terra-
challenging time in her life as she was also cotta statue that she wired onto a
make the space more personal and unique.
acclimating to a new lifestyle. simple, modern Lucite base.
Since taking over as owner in 1993, Zat-
Focusing on the details of history and ar- The antique lamps, chandeliers and furni-
loukal has metamorphosed Dagmar Design
chitecture inspire Zatloukal and she enjoys ture are collected during Zatloukal’s buying
into a complete lighting workshop, antique
using her imagination to create something trips to Europe, which she tries to take at
gallery and, more recently, a line of reproduc-
out of an overlooked piece. “I think that least twice a year. Her favorite destinations
tion furnishings. A wide range of lighting
in today’s modern architecture the lighting are the antique shows in the south of France
options is available, from antique lamps and
design industry focuses mostly on pure fun- where the dealers are from as far north
chandeliers to hand-carved, gilded reproduc-
tion.” She feels that it is important to incor- as Sweden and as far south as Sicily. “The
tion lamps and lamps created from architec-
porate decorative elements into an interior to dealers bring their trucks loaded with ‘trea-

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