Every apartment owner who is decorating becomes, in a sense, an architect. A correct and functional arrangement of furniture should ensure comfort and the interior’s aesthetic. An apartment is a living fabric that we shape according to our needs in the passing of time.
Alicja Opachowska-Szymańska (born 1944) studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology. After obtaining her diploma she pursued studies at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, which she completed in 1978. In the 1970s she worked creatively and successfully in interior architecture, exhibition design and publishing graphics. In the 1980s she turned to collages in which she combines cast iron, wood, leather and glass; collages became her passion. Her further artistic searches are complemented by poems full of sensitivity to beauty. She presented her works at many exhibitions and in galleries in Poland and abroad.
Jan Szymański (1928–2003) earned his diploma at the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology in 1952. He was an assistant in the Department of Freehand Drawing and one of the pillars of the team of young teachers of the Department. As an architectural creator he was mainly active in competition efforts and designing interior and exhibition architecture. He advised readers of illustrated magazines how to oversee the independent formation of their living interiors, publishing drawings and describing example solutions. He also did satirical drawings for the weekly Szpilki. After retiring he painted atmospheric landscapes in the tradition of miniatures by old 17th-century Dutch masters. He lectured at the Department of Drawing of the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology.
Author and co-author of many valuable publications, including: "Living Walls", "Small Apartment", "The Book About the Apartment", "A Small Cottage on a Plot", and author of numerous columns devoted to interior design published in "Życie Osiedli Warszawskiej Spółdzielni Mieszkaniowej".
📅 February 7 at 11:00
📍 Public Library of the Żoliborz District of the Capital City of Warsaw, ul. Broniewskiego 9A.
The event’s honorary patron is the Mayor of the Żoliborz District of the Capital City of Warsaw, Renata Kozłowska.
