Month: September 2013

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We present 10 projects of nowymodel.org at the WAWA Design Festival

The exhibition "Greater Poland's Tradition of Furniture Design" runs until September 15 as part of the Wawa Design Festival.

nowymodel.org is a partner of the exhibition. We are presenting 10 objects, furniture, and lamps made in our workshops. You'll see, among others, Rajmund T. Hałas's VARIABLE HEIGHT SHELVES from 1959 and RED-WHITE-BLACK chairs from the 1960s, Wojciech Hora's STUDENT WORKSPACE from 1987, and his SECRETARY designed especially for Tina Turner. We recommend viewing Michał Kowalski's COSY felt lamps and Kasia Laskowska's PULT chest of drawers for two.

All our designs are now or will soon be available for purchase at www.nowymodel.org.

We are waiting for you in hall 50 with the neon sign of the Main Technical Bookstore, Soho Factory, Warsaw.

 

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We invite you to the exhibition "Greater Poland's tradition of furniture design"„

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„"The Greater Poland tradition of furniture design"”

organizers: UAP Foundation, UAP Furniture Department

partner: nowymodel.org

sponsors: TFP Sp. z o. o.

place: Wawa Design Festival Warsaw 7-15.09.2013 SOHO FACTORY

exhibition program: http://wawadesign.eu/program/wystawy/

The history of objects also tells the story of their creators and the places where they were created. This exhibition, curated by the Department of Furniture at the University of Arts in Poznań and the UAP Foundation, offers insight into the history of Greater Poland's design traditions. These are evidenced by objects created over sixty years and designed by three generations – including recent student projects, works by educators, and classics of Polish design revived by nowymodel.org.

Designers presented at the exhibition „"The Greater Poland tradition of furniture design"” are: Rajmund Teofil Hałas, Aleksander Kuczma, Władysław Wróblewski, Jolanta Usarewicz-Owsian, Wojciech Hora, Marek Owsian, Katarzyna Laskowska, Joanna Barańska-Woźny, Mateusz Wróblewski, Marta Szczepańska, Monika Frisztig, Dorota Terlecka, Dorota Koziara, Karol Starczewski, Szymon Filoda, Anna Trafas-Kowalczyk, Michał Kowalski. Student projects from the 1990s: Agnieszka Haberska, Katarzyna Maciejko; from the first decade of the 21st century: Marta Bartkowiak, Justyna Brejdak, Michał Bartkowiak; and the latest projects by current students of the Department of Furniture: Marta Prasek, Filip Żuchowski, Tomasz Pawłowski, Łukasz Marcinkowski, Wiktoria Mrozek, Agnieszka Dolska.

The exhibition features 40 projects from the last 70 years, including 10 implemented by nowymodel.org.

exhibition curators: Kasia Laskowska, Kasia Jeżowska