About work:

I'm presenting here a toy titled “The Doll and Her House” which I made in 1995. The doll won a special award for ‘special artistic value’ in the national children's toy design competition “The Doll and Her House”. The competition was organized by the Institute of Industrial Design in Warsaw and the Museum of Toys and Play in Kielce (formerly the Toy Museum in Kielce), under the patronage of the Ministry of National Education. The competition jury was chaired by Adam Kilian, one of the leading Polish set designers of the time.

In 1995-1996, the doll was presented at two post-competition exhibitions: at the Institute of Industrial Design in Warsaw and then at the Toy Museum in Kielce.

The Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw considered the idea of ​​putting the doll into production. However, this idea was abandoned because many elements of the work were deemed difficult to reproduce industrially. I was a second-year student at the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the time. Designing and creating the doll took me a month. I slept three hours a day to finish the work by the competition deadline. I didn't attend classes for that month. As I recall, I held a ceremonial presentation of my work in the dean's office, and all the professors from the Faculty of Graphic Arts gathered. The doll was a sensation. Those were good times. Times without computers, without the internet.

Since the fall of 2018, the doll has been on display in the permanent exhibition at the Toy Museum in Kudowa-Zdrój.

Dollhouse dimensions in cm: 69 x 59 x 52 (L x W x H).

My second toy: The Cat