About the designer
Maria Jeglińska was born in Fontainebleau (France) in 1983. In 2010 she established her Office for Design & Research in London. She graduated from ECAL’s (Lausanne, CH) industrial design course in 2007, and was awarded a scholarship from the IKEA Foundation, that led her to work for Galerie kreo in Paris, Konstantin Grcic in Munich, and Alexander Taylor in London.
She works on a wide range of commissions: industrial design projects, exhibition design, as well as research-based projects. She is convinced that in today’s world, research can trigger and generate new forms of possibilities and solutions. Her clients include: Ligne Roset, Kvadrat, Actus, Vitra, 1882ltd, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and the St Etienne Design Biennial.
Her work is regularly exhibited internationally, and was shown at: the Villa Noailles, Aram Gallery, Barbican Art Gallery, Centre Pompidou Metz, and the Milan Triennial.
In October 2012, she curated and designed: ‘Ways of Seeing/Sitting’ at the Łódź Design Festival in Poland. She was also the co-curator and designer of the Polish Pavilion at the London Design Biennial in September 2016. In 2018, she was appointed creative director of the Arena Design Fair in Poland.