(1959. - 1980.) – Zagrebački Velesajam, Zagreb
(1961. - 1980.) – Beogradski sajam namještaja, Beograd
(1973. - 1977.) – 8. - 12. Zagrebački Salon, Zagreb
1970. / 71. – BIO 4, Bijenale industrijskog oblikovanja, Ljubljana

1963. – Priznanje na ZV žiri potrošača saveznog odbora / Porodica i domaćinstvo / Blagovaonica T-620 
1967. – Posebna diploma / Beogradski V sajam nameštaja i unutrašnje dekoracije / Stolac Kristina
1972. – Diploma Dobar dizajn Dizajn centra Beograd / Beogradski 7. sajam nameštaja, opreme i unutrašnje dekoracije / Dječja soba PIPI

Kučinac Blaženka — product designer and furniture designer
(1937, Zagaj pod Bočem)

A designer with years of experience in the wood industry. At the Department for Interior Architecture, she graduates from the School of Applied Arts in 1955 and starts work at the Zagreb-based furniture factory (Zagrebačku tvornicu pokućstva - ZTP), occupying the position of “industrial aestheticist”. In the factory’s technical services, she gains her first professional experience, designing the production program and furnishing the office spaces. She spends most of her professional career at the Tvornica namještaja Ivo Marinković (“Ivo Marinković Furniture Factory”) in Osijek as Head Engineer at the Department of Design, where she creates design plans and oversees the development of serial production of various elements and interior furnishing systems. Since the factory managers had at their disposal high quality industrial equipment, as well as an extensive production program, during her 20-year career, Kučinac had the opportunity to participate in the development of a large number of furniture pieces whose market success was measured in substantial circulation. For instance, her Osijek I, II and III series were produced in 250 000 sets. Most of the models were exported to England, Switzerland and the former USSR. For her work on a line of children’s furniture titled Pipi, she wins special distinction at the Belgrade Furniture Fair in 1972. The product’s design mirrors the user’s progress towards adulthood and was meant to be sold both in individual pieces and as furniture sets. Kučinac also takes part in a tender for the development of a furniture line for the Soviet market, which gives her the opportunity to develop an exhibition model for a chair subsequently presented at a showing in Kiev, titled Jugoslavenska roba namijenjena širokoj potrošnji (“Yugoslav Articles for General Consumption”). In addition to this, she was a chair design expert and was responsible for the design of a substantial number of pieces such as the Zebra (“The Zebra”), Skakavac (“The Grasshopper”), Dora, Fotelja 49 (“Armchair 49”), A-1, T and others. Kučinac believes that industrially manufactured design plays an educational role in society and familiarizes consumers with the benefits of contemporary furniture. Besides industrial production, she deals with the development of modular furniture systems with well- planned configurations which she often displays at professional review exhibitions such as the 12th Zagreb Salon, the Biennial of Design (BIO) in Ljubljana and the Belgrade Salon. She perfects her expertise by attending four semesters of classes at the Department of Furniture Design at the Faculty of Forestry in Zagreb, under the mentorship of Professor Milica Rosenberg. Until her retirement, she works as architectural adviser at the Šipad department store, in addition to which she dedicates a part of her time until 1991 to the work of the Solidarnost (“Solidarity”) crafts cooperative in Zagreb.