Zydelek, ryczka, stołek
DESIGN: Marlena Norowska
Poland
make me! 2023
I was inspired to create the collection by the word RYCZKA – a low seat, usually used when working in the countryside. The aim of the project is to bring back to life, stools similar to ryczka – known since antiquity, but unnoticed. Different cultural circles have different forms of low seats, containing different meanings and identities. Therefore, during my ethnographic research, I distinguished nine icons/archetypes, representing stools of similar construction. No icon comes from a specific place or time, rather their forms have reappeared in different locations and historical periods.
Collection refers to four of the icons I have featured: stump, ryczka, milkman’s stool, bourgeois stool.
Zydelek, ryczka, stołek, design: Marlena Norowska / from designer’s archive
Zydelek, ryczka, stołek, design: Marlena Norowska / from designer’s archive
Zydelek, ryczka, stołek, design: Marlena Norowska / from designer’s archive
Zydelek, ryczka, stołek, design: Marlena Norowska / from designer’s archive
Marlena Norowska
A graduate of the Faculty of Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (2016–2020, 2021–2022). She also studied Interaction Design at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin (as part of the Ersamus+ program, 2019) and Graphic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice (2020-2021). She designs physical products and graphics/visual communication. She completed a one-year internship at August Design Studio in Warsaw (2019), which turned into cooperation with the founder Olga Milczyńska in 2020-2021.
Awarded at the exhibition “Coming Out The Best Diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw” for her bachelor’s project “Obwara – ceramic urns”. She took third place in the make me! 2021 — Lodz Design Festival. Also awarded in the design category at “UpComing – Selected Diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw 2022” for the master’s project “Zydelek, ryczka, stołek”.
