* an animated history of Polish…
design, industrial design and applied art.
This is history in a nutshell. It begins with tuberculosis, which takes Stanisław Witkiewicz to the town of Zakopane in the Tatra Mountains. There, he creates the Zakopane Style… and with that, Polish applied art is born. As we move on along the timeline, we watch the emergence of Polish art déco and encounter the avant-garde. After the Second World War, designers become an intrinsic part of the production process and the term ‚industrial design’ is used to describe their work.
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The First Polish Designers
1886-1905
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The First Polish Designers
1886-1905
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The Paris Exhibition
1901-1925
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The Paris Exhibition
1901-1925
Which tells of how the Poles take part in the International Exhibition of Modern and Decorative Arts in Paris in 1925, of how the Polish identity endured although Poland was eliminated from the map of Europe for one hundred and twenty-three years, and of how the newly reborn country’s artistic work is presented at the exhibition.
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The Birth of the Avantgarde. In Search of Modernity
1929-1939
