When the US dropped nuclear bombs on Japan at the end of WWII, one man in particular was affected by the death and destruction. Having helped create the weapon, he dedicated the rest of his life to ...

Fenek Studio is the Warsaw-based ceramics workshop of Tosia Kiliś and Agata Klimkowska, who met at the School of Form. Over the past decade, they’ve built a thriving practice rooted in hand-crafted ...

From grassy fields and wooden sheds to sleek steel-and-glass terminals, Poland’s airports have soared through a century of change. Whether it’s Warsaw’s Pole Mokotowskie where aviation dreams took ...

The Polish alphabet has 32 letters, nine of which are unique. Considering that some of the letters form digraphs and even one trigraph, this adds up to a total of 17 signs, which you‘ll unfortunately ...

Hollywood has a prolific history of spicing up every story they use as the basis for a film script. The Zookeeper’s Wife is hardly an exception, so if you are dying to know which parts of this ...

Chopin's 24 Preludes are universally recognized as some of the composer's most characteristic works. Not only are they quintessential of his style, but are also deeply tied with upheavals in Chopin's ...

Autoportrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti) is Tamara Łempicka’s most famous and most often reproduced work. It quickly became an iconic effigy of a modern interwar period woman.

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The reconstruction of Warsaw in 1945 was an attempt to rebuild not only the individual monuments, but also to restore the entire historical makeup of the city. Many years later, the revitalisation of ...

Warsaw, Poznań and Białystok, as well as many other Polish cities, were virtually razed to the ground during World War II, suffering under the subsequent marches of hostile armies. Meanwhile, Kraków, ...

The Polish national wardrobe is filled to the brim with embroidered dresses in all possible colours as well as Gorals, hard-soled leather moccasins called ‘kierpce’ and ornaments from red beaded ...

Could it be that most Polish modern literature was written in the secret language of the Aesopian? And does the Veil of Veronica hold the key to understanding Polish literature? During the era of ...