Collection and Heritage
Today, our works are in private collections worldwide and continue to inspire new connoisseurs of porcelain art. Soon we will see how the exclusive collections and unique pieces from the Kony Bak ceramic house will be presented in leading international auction houses, opening a new chapter in the history of contemporary porcelain. The foundation of the Kony Bak ceramic house was laid by my grandmother in 1946, beginning a dialogue between past and future, where centuries-old traditions meet modern technologies.
Egorova Antonina Ilyinichna - labor veteran. After finishing school, she entered a technical college and graduated as a silicate technician-technologist on June 29, 1950, in Moscow. That same year, she was accepted at a brick factory as a master of the tile workshop, and by 1952 she received the position of chief engineer at the brick factory in Kattakurgan, Uzbek SSR. In 1955, she was transferred to brick production in the Karelo-Finnish SSR as a technician-technologist.
Popova Olga Nikolaevna - labor veteran, my mother was born in 1964. My mother was a school medalist, chose the profession of architect and entered the construction university.
Novikova Antonina Alexandrovna - that's me, engineering intelligentsia across several generations. My grandmother and mother took me with them to work from the age of 4. With my grandmother, I traveled to all possible brick factories, read books on ceramic technology and fell in love with clay, fire, and ceramic production. Kony Bak is simply my name, which my younger brother couldn't pronounce and instead of "Tonya" called me "Konya." And "Bak" is my ability to find errors. Thus the name-addition to the EPN.A (Egorovs, Popovs, Novikovs) house Kony Bak appeared. And of course, the most important thing is our little bee. Yes, there is a bee on the logo. That's what my relatives called me as a child - "Bee."
