"Czegoś podobnego dotychczas w Warszawie nie było". Wystawa Towarzystwa Polska Sztuka Stosowana w Zachęcie w 1908 r.
'Warsaw Has Never Seen Anything Like It'. Exhibition of the Society of Polish Applied Art at the Zachęta in 1908

Summary/Abstract: In February and March 1908, the Zachęta Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw presented a summing-up display of the activity of the Kraków Society of Polish Applied Art (TPSS), active from 1901. According to some comments: ‘The goal of the Exhibition was to demonstrate that Polish applied art existed, that there were already a number of artists who for the last several years had been aware of their purpose, thus demonstrating that when it came to decorating dwelling interiors, particularly when cabinetmaking and wall decorating were concerned (...), they were able to take an independent and thoroughly artistic stand in the full meaning of the term’. The display filled in ten rooms, seven of them being dwelling interior arrangements. The presented designs included those by: Karol Tichy (entryway), Edward Trojanowski (Władysław Reymont’s study, Papal bedroom), Stanisław Wyspiański (the Żeleń- skis’ dining- and drawing-rooms), Ludwik Wojtyczko (the Dziewulskis’ dining-room), and Józef Czajkowski (hall in the flat of Kraków’s Mayor; the Reymonts’dining-room). Arranging Zachęta’s spaces as a line of dwelling interiors aroused much interest of the critics, while Eligiusz Niewiadomski wrote: ‘Warsaw has never seen anything like it’...

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