The Museum of the City of Gdynia invites you to an online lecture about Wieslaw Oyrzanowski, today a somewhat forgotten architect and designer. He was the author of many innovative furniture designs, experimenting with various materials. Art historian and researcher of modernist architecture, Agnieszka Drączkowska will take us through the designer's creative world.
Built in the interwar period, Gdynia quickly became a stimulating symbol of modernity, freedom and openness. It attracted and inspired numerous artists and designers who chose to tie their lives and work to the new Polish "window on the world." One such creator was the now somewhat forgotten architect, designer, theoretician and publicist Wieslaw Oyrzanowski (1906-1940).
In his innovative designs for chairs, stools and armchairs , he eagerly experimented with materials and forms, using materials that were just entering the world of furniture making, such as bent steel tubing and corrugated sheet metal. His versatile work, although known only from individual source materials, will be presented against the background of the achievements of the architectural environment of the Second Polish Republic.
The lecture will be modernist architecture researcher and art historian Agnieszka Drączkowska. The lecture will be broadcast on the facebook profile of the Museum of the City of Gdynia this Friday, June 5, at 2:00 pm.
