Young Hungarian designer Istvan Bötje has developed a modular tableware series in porcelain and cork. The series is called Kopia inspired by an ancient 18th century Hungarian ritual, embodied in the Kopjafa.

Traditionally, this was a wooden obelisk made not only to celebrate a funeral ceremony, but to commemorate the life of a departed person, through geometric symbols that used to describe the characteristics of such person, such as gender, character, profession, age, etc. Later on, the Kopjafa became a public object to celebrate a national event, an anniversary or an historical date.

In Bötje's project, the Kopjafa has been divided in formal-symbolic blocks in order to manufacture a series of assembled and interchangeable objects for the table (e.g. vases, holders). The main purpose has been to reproduce the building ritual of the Kopjafa through the simplified action of composition, and to promote the Hungarian porcelain handicraft tradition.