Born in 1949 in Prague and dead in 2016, Bořek Šípek is a Czech architect and designer. He left his country in 1968 to set up in Germany, in Hamburg, and found an artistic studio in Amsterdam in 1983. After the end of communism in Central Europe, he came back to Czech Republic and became official architect of Prague's Castle, from 1992 to 2002, at the request of President Vaclav Havel. Major figure of contemporary glassmaking, he found in 1994 the Ajeto glassworks and worked with glass masters from Bohemia, to design glassware of the underground in Dubai for instance.

His activities were various and his creations were very eclectic. Architect, Bořek Šípek also created furniture, crystal and silver objects, for manufacturers such as Driade, Alessi or Sawaya&Moroni in Italy, and Manufacture de Sèvres in France or Val Saint-Lambert in Belgium. His colourful and baroque production questions the status of modern mass-produced objects.  

Besides, Bořek Šípek wrote several books about design and taught architecture and design in universities of Hannover, Essen, Prague and Liberec.