Patria in Need

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An architecture critic and researcher, writer, and the spiritual child of Magda Gessler and Le Corbusier. His book about the rebuilding of Warsaw “Najlepsze miasto świata” [The Best City in the World] was published in February 2020.

A celebrity singer and a future celebrity architect together created an unusual hotel in the mountains. They named it for the glory of the homeland.

Krynica-Hawana bus stop. The beginning of autumn; the end of a long journey. A cold Sub-Carpathian night descends, but the fire burns on the exotic islands of dance halls: summer hits from the last 40 years are being blasted, dancing couples forget about their age. In sanatorium spa resorts, time gets curved in a weird way. It is ruled by a daily rhythm of meals, walks, treatments and dance parties. What day of the week, what year is it? Does it even matter?

Time also gets curved in the state-run spa resort called Patria. It fulfils fantasies about the lives of the elites of the Second Polish Republic in the times

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Grzegorz Piątek:

An architecture critic and researcher, writer, and the spiritual child of Magda Gessler and Le Corbusier. His book about the rebuilding of Warsaw “Najlepsze miasto świata” [The Best City in the World] was published in February 2020.

Translation: Anna Błasiak

Publish date: 06.12.2019

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Agnieszka Drotkiewicz:

is a writer. She has published several novels (“Paris London Dachau”, “Dla mnie to samo”, “Teraz”, “Nieszpory”) and collected interviews (two conducted along with Anna Dziewit: “Głośniej! Rozmowy z pisarkami” and “Teoria trutnia i inne”; and two by herself: “Jeszcze dzisiaj nie usiadłam” and “Piano rysuje sufit”). Agnieszka also published “Dusza światowa” – an extended interview with Dorota Masłowska. Together with Ewa Kuryluk, she wrote a book in the form of a conversation (“Manhattan i Mała Wenecja”), for which they received the Warsaw Literary Premiere Award.

Through the house they created together, Carl and Karin Larsson expressed a holistic idea of life, art and their mutual influence.

According to this notion, literature and contact with the arts (a rich collection of books, albums, European art magazines), as well as the interior of the house, furniture, dishes, clothes, everyday objects and even the food, are equally important for human growth. The Larssons loved to eat outside, and Carl Larsson’s watercolours depicting breakfasts under a birch tree have helped promote this custom among the Swedes. The aesthetics and philosophy of Lilla Hyttnäs, the home of the Larsson family, may seem familiar to us. The couple are often called the precursors and inspiration behind IKEA’s style.

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