Wallpaper - 09.2019

Match point

We love a winning combination

With around 30,000 companies, Poland’s furniture

sector is significant, but most of its output is as an

anonymous supplier to high-profile Scandinavian

brands. ‘Polish manufacturers have brilliant technology

and knowledge at their disposal, yet they lack an

awareness of the market that would allow them to

gain an edge at an international level,’ says Małgorzata

Adamus, president of the Association for Industrial

Design in Warmia-Masuria. She has co-ordinated

a new initiative, the Grants for Design programme,

to pair up-and-coming Polish designers with

manufacturers. One of the fruits of this labour is

MOD, a collection by designer Dorota Terlecka,

of Biuro Kreacja, for manufacturer Pagok. Created for

Pagok’s new brand, Microom, which is aimed at the

micro-apartments sector, the range includes a desk/

dressing table and a sofa bed. ‘The form is very

simple, enriched with arched details,’ says Terlecka,

adding that she was inspired by ‘modernism and

the combination of geometric elements characteristic

of this era’. Other designers in the programme

include Beza Projekt, Grynasz Studio, Hanczar Studio,

Kowalczyk-Gajda Studio, Malafor and Studio Szpunar,

and manufacturers include ABM, Devo, Lech-Pol and

SSF. All the pairings will be on show at Maison & Objet

in Paris in September, and at Warsaw Home in October.

RAIL AND MIRROR

WITH STAND, PART OF THE

MOD COLLECTION, PRICES

ON REQUEST, BY DOROTA

TERLECKA, FOR PAGOK

PHOTOGRAPHY: ADRIEN DUBOST WRITER: CLARE DOWDY

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