"I love to paint, fighting with oil paint, the lubrication is almost a sensual pleasure" –explained the interior designer Gábor Mezei Gábor who was honoured with the Munkácsy Award, Officer Cross of the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic. He is also member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts Applied Arts department.

Mezei's pictures are permeated y humour and playfulness.That does not mean, however, that they do not deal with serious issues. His pictures are crowded with special creatures. The birds are sometimes escorts, sometimes are the main characters. Tribal masks bear the traits of gorillas or baboons. Group representations are often complemented with water-spitting like dragon reptiles. Human beings also appear bizarrely, with fused limbs,or with only one eye. These hybrid creatures are linked Site with major motifs used by Mezei such as the Sun, the tree of life, angels or wings. Besides, geometric representation plays the same importance in his life of , but the world of literature and the arts are close to him ever since childhood, too.

He first met Imre Makoveczin the middle of the 60, which influenced his art thereafter. He join those representing organic architecture who rebelled against the monotony of modernist -technicist-trends. Especially Makovecz – later on others, too, to a lesser degree- were his partners in designing the interiors. He became the master of Hungarian organic interior design, furniture design with a very unique tone of voice. His surreal furniture creatures inhabit many of his interiors. On his furnitures, ancient circular forms, the tree of life and wings take the role of pronounced compositional elements. The armchair in his conception is a human signal. The eat for the head of the family, a special royal throne. He was connected to the town of Makó with his design to the Hagymaház.