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André Kulesza Architect. Unique Light Table, Wrought Iron, Glass Crystals 1960s
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Exceptional light coffee table by the architect André Kulesza, hammered wrought iron and polychrome stained glass crystals.
The fragments of glass crystals have been carefully selected and combined harmoniously to represent an abstract design.
The glass crystals are fixed on reinforced glass and protected by a window which acts as a table top.
the base is reminiscent of a spider, the 4 feet merge in the center and under the glass crystals to support the light diffuser.
Incredible work of art.
The architect André Kulesza (1913 - 2012) known as the Polish Le Corbusier, carried out this unique production in parallel with the construction of the Polish church in Lens (city in the north of France) of which he was the architect, to commemorate the thousand
years of Christianity in Poland.
This table is like a masterpiece.
Height: 18.11 inch / 46 cm
Width: 24.21 inch / 61.5 cm
Length: 24.21 inch / 61.5 cm
Good condition.
circa 1966
The passionate life of André Kulesza, patriot and architect.
André Olgierd Kulesza passed away in February 2012, at the age of 89. If the name of this Valdericourtian doesn't mean anything to you, his architectural achievements are certainly not unknown, mainly in the north of France.
The town center of Noyelles-lès-Vermelles, buildings in Noeux-les-Mines, the Ephad (accommodation establishment for dependent elderly people) in Sailly-Labourse or Violaines, the Millenium church in Lens and many more Other achievements in France and around the world have marked the career of this Polish immigrant whose destiny was shaken by History.
It must be said that André O. Kulesza already had unusual parents. His mother, from the Polish nobility having lost part of her family massacred by the Bolsheviks in 1917 and taking refuge with her aunt in Poznan, attended Paderewski,
Marie Curie and became a painter; in 1919, speaking excellent French, she worked for the French military mission in Warsaw and a young captain named Charles De Gaulle. Later, she would be a member of the Polish Resistance to the German occupiers. His father, a trained agricultural engineer who became a bank director in Poznan, he crossed all of Europe when the Nazis arrived to join the Polish forces in England, an engagement which prevented him from returning to post-war communist Poland. .
André was 16 years old when the Germans invaded Poland and despite his young age wore the Polish uniform; later arrested in Lublin, he had to be deported to Auschwitz but the Resistance freed him during the transfer and fled to Warsaw,
occupied, tortured and hungry. At the end of the war, he returned to Gdansk with his mother, hiding their membership in the Armia Krajowa, which was being pursued by the communists.
Russians. This is how he entered the faculty of architecture at Gdansk Polytechnic. “It was difficult to escape from the sad communist reality,” he wrote in a memoir in 2010, as he was harassed by the secret police to register with the party.
André Kulesza achieved his first major architectural achievement in a daring way. Still visible today, the church of Wladyslawono on the edge of the Baltic Sea is the result of a project to enlarge the sacristy which the architect will however make... a new church! Built with the help of local fishermen, it was a success for the man who then became the “Polish Le Corbusier”. He therefore participated in various international competitions and notably won that of the construction of a Lutheran church in Copenhagen where, supervised, he was nevertheless able to reconnect with his father. In a moment of political thaw and family reunions authorized, he finally obtains his passport. Recommended by the Primate of Poland, Cardinal Wyszynski, he arrived in France where the Oblate fathers suggested that he build a Polish church in Lens, to commemorate Poland's thousand years of Christianity. There, all of Kulesza's art will be expressed, clearly visible today: stained glass windows made of glass blocks incorporated in concrete representing Polish landscapes. To follow the work, he moved to the Saint-Casimir institute in Vaudricourt, a village that he would never leave since he renovated the church there and built his “house” at the Château-Bois residence. Polish Patria”. There he also opened his office which would experience good times, ensuring a number of achievements: sports halls, town halls, cultural centers... Engaged in actions to support the Solidarnosc union in the 1980s, he met Lech Walesa. His wife
Thérèse, herself of Polish origin and born in Marles-les-Mines, assisted him for many years in his work. Passionate about new metal frames, inventor of a dozen international construction patents, collaborator of MIT in Boston, he imposed a style all his own, all in strong triangles and luminous stained glass windows, forever visible.
- Dimensions:Height: 18.12 in (46 cm)Width: 24.22 in (61.5 cm)Depth: 24.22 in (61.5 cm)
- Style:Arts and Crafts (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1960
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:leucate, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU7285236689092
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