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Armchair Model 366, designed by Józef Chierowski (1962), produced by 366 Concept (2014)
What makes an object become a design icon? The Polish Design Stories exhibition, presented during Vienna Design Week, is trying to answer that question.
Polish Design Stories' curator, Klara Czern
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Polish Design Stories' curator, Klara Czerniewska, had a closer look at the most recognisable Polish furniture designs and the lighting from two most dynamic periods in Polish design: 1950s, 1960s and the first two decades of the 21st century. The curator divided objects into two groups, according to her observation that icons derive from both mass-produced and widely accessible and objects whose image was spread through publications and exhibitions. The second group most often consists of prototypes, sometimes never mass-produced and left in the realm of dreams, but which still build the images of designers and companies.
The chosen objects show the most valuable aspects of design (functionality, beauty, availability, but also pushing the boundaries of technology usage and comprehension) and the multiple definitions of a designer's role: from designing patterns for mass-production to creating utopian concepts, commenting on reality and society.
Links between exhibits are made through extraordinary stories about their beginnings that put together create a significant part of the multi-layered history of Polish design.
Organiser: 366 Concept
A brand resurrecting Polish design, founded by Maciej Cypryk and Agata Górka. The company started the business in 2014 by re-manufacturing the legendary armchair Model 366, designed by Józef Chierowski in 1962, with an exclusive copyright licence. 366 Concept made its debut at Łódź Design Festival in 2014. The company offers a variety of products based on the modern interpretation of the original project. 366 Concept focuses on the highest-quality products and materials. Products are 100% made in Poland.
Curator: Klara Czerniewska
Art historian, critic and curator of contemporary art and design exhibitions. She gathered experience while working with Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka, the curator with whom she organised exhibitions in Poland and abroad (Holon Design Museum in Israel, Łódź Design Festival, Muzeum Regionalne in Stalowa Wola, Munkeruphus in Denmark). Co-curator of the 6th Warsaw Under Construction Festival. Her work has been published in 2+3D, dwutygodnik.com, Icon Magazine, K Mag, Kontakt, Monitor, and Take me. She is also the author of Gaber i Pani Fantazja. Surrealizm Stosowany (published by 40 000 Malarzy in 2011).
Source: press release, edited by KK, translated by ND, August 2015.