Apolin collection in the collection of the National Museum!

2024-10-16
Apolin collection in the collection of the National Museum!

Apolin collection joined the Collection of the National Museum in Warsaw

By the decision of the National Museum in Warsawe apolin lamp collection designed for the Kaspa brand by Marta Niemywska Grynasz and Dawid Grynasz of Grynasz Studio with trilateral cooperation with Bochinski Foundation, has been entered into the Museum's collection and will be part of the permanent exhibition Gallery of Polish Design.

This is not only a great honor for the designers, our brand and all the parties and creative people involved in the creation of this family of lamps, but also proof that Polish design and Polish design thought, do not exist in isolation from the historical context, that they draw and are inspired by how Polish and European design developed years ago and over the years, how the objects we surround ourselves with every day have changed. How the Apolin project relates to the history of Polish design thought, in what area it is a collection of thoroughly modern lamps and what kind of space is the Gallery of Polish Design, we write about it below! We invite you to read.

"It is we are very pleased that the Apolin collection has been appreciated and included in the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw. This is a great honor for our entire design-strategy-production team. This confirms the validity of the direction taken and the great value of projects from the space of sustainable design, and improving human well-being."

Marta Niemywska Grynas and Dawid Grynasz / Grynasz Studio

From Apolini to Apolino - inspired design and a tribute to the history of Polish design

Before we talk about how the table lamp from the Apolin collection winks at designs of the past, let's recall and remember the famous words of Heraclitus of Ephesus - "Panta rhei". Contrary to appearances, the maxim "Everything flows" does not at all mean that everything passes away. On the contrary. This sentence emphasizes constant, fluid changeability as the foundation of our lives and the ever-changing world. Continuity and variability, which in the case of design - but also fashion - often means staggering around and reinventing the same forms...

Items designed and manufactured in the 1950s., 60. i 70. In the 1970s, they are currently experiencing a renaissance. The mid-century modern style has once again returned to the favor of architects and designers (although, in fact, it has always been held in high regard), Millenials and even Zetas love it, and numerous reissues of turn-of-the-last-century designs delighted visitors to this year's Milan Design Fair.

Marta Niemywska-Grynasz and Dawid Grynasz of Grynasz Studio

Also, the designers from Grynasz Studio, who like to draw from the simplicity and functionality of the Bauhaus school, which was the starting point for designs created in the middle of the last century, decided to take inspiration from the design of that period, and they took as their inspiration a lamp from their private collection - a "piesek" table lamp attributed to Apolinary Jan Galecki, a graduate of the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, a member of the Association of Polish Architects, and in the 1950-70s a full-time designer and constructor at the Capital Metal Works No. 2 of the Territorial Industry in Warsaw.

Apolin table lamp in brushed steel finish

As Beata Bochinska writes in the article Inspired design: Copy, imitation or creative development? "Such creative interpretations of ideas and their development is no small task. It takes courage and talent to face the mastery of predecessors and dare to go further, to contradict in a sense the solutions of the masters. It takes a designer's nerve!"

This is how, partly out of love for Polish design, partly as a result of fascination with simple, functional forms, and with a bit of designer audacity, courage and creative invention, the Apolin table lamp with movable perforated canopy was created. Small holes in the lamp's canopy diffuse the light, which spreads out into smaller streams of light, creating a unique spectacle in the interior. It is this perforation that is the element alluding to the project carried out years ago by Mr. Galecki, and although the rest of the collection does not use the motif of the light screen, it is a development of it, also in terms of the material used.

Robust, long-lasting, repairable and recyclable, hand-profiled 1.5 mm thick steel is a material "for the ages". This was also the assumption of many designers of the mid-century period, but then - at least in Poland - it was based on slightly different motives than today. In an era of perpetual shortage and scarcity of raw materials, everyday items were to be "for generations" projects.

Today, although we live in a time of surplus, overproduction and ubiquitous excess, many designers - including Grynasz Studio - create in the spirit of responsible, sustainable design, defying the "fast" era present in both fashion and home areas.

What if, like years ago, all the objects we surround ourselves with could be repaired, refurbished, passed on to our children, grandchildren, future generations? It is the tenets of sustainable design, friendly to both the environment and people. Design that defies the test of time and seasonality, not only through form, but also through material, functionality and technology.

"The inclusion of the Apolin collection in the MN collection in the year in which we celebrate the brand's 10th birthday is an exceptional honor for us and a confirmation that starting to work with Polish designers and actively responding to the changes that are taking place in the field of interior design and its users is the right direction. As a Polish lamp manufacturer, we also perceive the event as proof of the importance and value of using local resources - artists and craftsmen, materials and production facilities, as well as Polish design thinking."

Katarzyna Hanus and Pawel Szymanski, KASPA

Apolin collection - from the past into the future

What constitutes the modernity of the Apolin lamp collection, which, as we have already mentioned, was created with respect for the resources of our planet, as well as in tribute to Polish design thought? Interior lighting is not an element that exists on its own. Light in our home accompanies us in our daily activities, performing a variety of functions, depending on our lifestyle, work, rhythm of the day and time of year. We need it not only to function, but also for our well-being. And it is in the search for solutions that support our well-being, and in keeping with the idea that the future is today, that the designers of the Apolin collection reached for modern technological solutions that, on the one hand, testify to the contemporary nature of the lamps in the series, supporting the health and well-being of their users, and, on the other hand, again! - play to the goal of "design for years".

The light sources in the Apolin lamps - high-quality LEDs - can be adjusted via an app or remote control, both in terms of their intensity and color temperature. Lamps from the collection can be combined into groups, programming selected light scenarios, so we can easily adjust the power and color of light to the time of day, and thus our natural biological clock. This has a positive effect on our well-being and will allow the light to follow the person. Not the other way around.

In addition, the designers reached for the effect of reflected light, which, combined with milky blends, guarantees a friendly, gentle stream of light that does not glaring users, no matter from what angle we look at the lamp. The LEDs used are not only of high quality and therefore energy-efficient and durable, but also replaceable. Thanks to this, after years, instead of buying a new light fixture, you can quietly replace the light source with a new one, enjoying a beautiful design that resists the test of time, while remaining on trend.

Apolin in the collection of the National Museum is honey to our advisory heart. To paraphrase the legendary Wanda Telakowska "sustainable beauty is finally available to everyone and every day" nothing but take it!

Beata Bochinska / Bochinski Foundation.

Polish Design Gallery - an inspiring space for fans of Polish design

The Gallery of Polish Design at the National Museum in Warsaw is a permanent exhibition that opened on December 15, 2017, curated by Anna Demska, Anna Frąckiewicz, Anna Maga and Kaja Muszyńska. The aim of the exhibition is to present key phenomena in Polish design from the early 20th century to the present day.

The gallery shows the richness of Polish design thought and the diversity of approaches to design in different eras and creative environments. It presents Polish designs that appeared in mass production - popular television and radio sets, porcelain, glass, furniture, textiles, household appliances, as well as luxury items and icons of Polish design. The exhibition presents everyday objects that illustrate the reconstruction of the country, socialist realism and the years of thaw and post-thaw freshness in Polish design thought, up to the economic crisis and contemporary design.

Here you will find outstanding works by Polish artists and designers, coming from both the Zakopane circle, the Cracow Workshops, the Artists' Cooperative "Ład", artists who participated in the Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Industry in Paris in 1925, i.e. Karol and Zofia Stryjeński and Antoni Kenar, modernists from the "Praesens" group, as well as design from the post-war period, as well as projects by such artists as Władysław Strzemiński, Jan Bogusławski, Jan Kurzątkowski, Julia Keilowa, Teresa Kruszewska, Andrzej Jan Wróblewski, and Barbara Hoff.

The exhibition is arranged chronologically, which allows to observe changes in design thinking and their dependence on historical and economic circumstances, and is additionally enriched with photographic materials and excerpts from archival newsreels. This is a wonderful place, highlighting the qualities of Polish design and a tribute to Polish design thought.

We are glad that Apolin lamps have added to the collection of such an inspiring and important space for design fans!

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