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June / July <strong>2010</strong> 44 WIZZ magazine<br />
WARSAW<br />
Warsaw has designs<br />
on your future<br />
For the best in Polish design, there’s only one city that shapes up<br />
It may be an unlikely design outpost,<br />
but in Warsaw a fusion of wild creative<br />
fl air, well-honed skill and a liberal dose<br />
of whimsical charm from a new wave of<br />
Polish innovators is making the design<br />
world sit up and take notice.<br />
Shaping the look of contemporary Polish<br />
design is Beton (www.beton-on.com). The<br />
husband-and-wife architect team of Marta<br />
Words Anna J Kutor<br />
Florkowska-Dwojak and Lech Rowiński<br />
are masters at creating objects that are<br />
understated and simple to use yet also<br />
versatile. The pair’s experimental gusto is<br />
evident in their use of geometric concepts<br />
and unusual materials. Pre-cut polyethylene<br />
foam forms are folded into street-chic<br />
handbags for Fi Bags, and are used to create<br />
softer pieces of furniture-art, including<br />
Left &<br />
below: Beton’s<br />
S-Chair<br />
Transformer<br />
Right & far<br />
right: Beton’s<br />
church in<br />
the village of<br />
Tarnów, on the<br />
Vistula River<br />
wrap-around chairs known as S-Chair<br />
Transformer. They’ve also dreamt<br />
up a series of pizza box-like cardboard<br />
modules – Wall1, Walll2 and PUDEL – that,<br />
when linked together, turned and twisted,<br />
result in a makeshift screen or space<br />
partition. “We really like the connection<br />
between the pure – mathematics – and<br />
the dirty – life – and like to explore the<br />
BETON
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