Modus Design was established in 1976, originally as a ceramic studio founded by Marek Cecuła in SoHo, New York. For years it had created applied and decorative ceramic design alternatives. Ceramics shaped by Modus Design encourage private daily ceremonies and offers new ways of arranging the landscape of the table.

Modus Design is based now in Kielce from where it implements projects of local, national and international reach. Since January 2013, it strictly collaborates with Polish Porcelain Factories “Ćmielów” and “Chodzież” where Cmielow Design Studio was established under Marek Cecuła leadership. This unique set up initiates the “artist in industry” program and revives the tradition of cooperation between artist and industry in quest of a new ceramic product. It is also dedicated to the experimental development and adaptation of new technologies for innovative usage in industrial production.

Modus Design Studio expresses and infuses contemporary spirit into the noble material and to continue exquisite craftsmanship in porcelain art and design.

The history of Julia Glassworks dates back to XIX century and is one of the oldest crystal glass manufactures in Poland.

For many companies, manual process of manufacturing is solely a cost creating factor that needs to be reduced. For Julia Crystal Glass Factory, it is the largest value that gives great production flexibility. Hence, their design and process boldly go beyond the traditional frames of what is known as an ordinary crystal glass.

It is an experiment with form and decor. As a consequence, their final products, manufactured on a small scale, meet needs of a very demanding customer. Julia is a constantly widening range of unique projects. It is an offer for a costumer who is interested in connecting tradition with modernity.

METROPOLIS (THE METROPOLIS)
The Collection, with its simple, geometric forms and vertical decor enhancing sparkle and light, is a reference to modern metropolitan areas with its ultra fast life and traffic - the sound of a busy street going into the noise of a night club and a
dawn that hardly breaks through the neons and city screens. That is the Metropolis – an architecture of a table. It forms new directions, streets and intersections... between meals.
Designed by: Sebastian Pietkiewicz

KULTOWE FORMY (THE CULT FORMS)
Down to earth and having solely a serviceable use in the past. Today they are back in a quite another, sentimental form. Popular, classic shapes of bottles for milk, whisky, beer, vodka or a jar for cucumbers. Subtle cuts bring out the elegance of crystal. Their contemporary function depends only on our imagination.
Designed by: Sebastian Pietkiewicz 

Stró, a Portuguese brand that seeks to give body, texture and colour to collections entirely built by [re]using materials, techniques, patterns and memories that are part of Portuguese culture, tradition, and history, and also of our life.

They are sourcing functional, sustainable and long-lasting products, made with both care and skill, of which every single detail is meticulously well thought-out and harmoniously crafted to serve its precise intention. Their manufacturing process is  to minimize waste and environmental impact, and to support local communities and small domestic industries.

A Polish street artist Jola Kudela working under a street name Yola. 

She specialises in large scale paste-ups, featuring classical paintings recreated using contemporary models. She combines her passion for renaissance art with her skills in image manipulation and digital composition. She studied animation and visual effects at the Polish National Film School in Lodz and, while not doing street art, she works in the movie industry as a CGI visual supervisor and compositing artist. 

In her street-art installations she uses classical (renaissance, symbolist or realist) paintings as reference to create modern images with contemporary models. Her images create a dialogue with their urban environment, as well as engage the audience by providing a social commentary.

She uses models from all walks of life, various ethnic backgrounds, professions and sexual orientations. In her art she aims to transgress the barriers of nationality, race and social strata.

She started her street art career with small pieces on the streets of Paris and Brighton, moving onto a large series of “Renaissance street art” in Warsaw, Poland (autumn 2010). In May 2011 she recreated a Polish symbolist masterpiece Vicious Circle in a large scale paste-up piece in Buenos Aires. In October 2011, as part of the Parisian cultural event Nuit Blanche, she created a massive 140m2 image on a 3-storey building located in a busy boulevard of Paris. It was done simultaneously with a Polish event Forty Forty in Warsaw. While in Australia in January 2012, she produced a series of paste-ups in the famous street-art lanes of Melbourne (Hosier Lane among others), as well as ran a street-art workshop with Blender Studios and Signal 37 project, which resulted in a collaborative paste-up in Union Lane. In 2013 she completed a street art project with local community of Loughborough Junction in South London, UK. 

WARSSAWA creates unique cement tiles, which link the traditional quality and uniqueness of handmade products with contemporary designs, shapes and innovative technology. The MEWA tile premiered at 100% Design trade fair in London in 2016.

The unique set of materials, which make up MEWA tiles, can be characterized by an innovative process. The tiles have an extremely low water permeability, and increased mass cohesiveness creating a composite with decreased porosity.
These properties, together with a precision-based method of creation and subtle colour pallet contribute to a truly unique product – MEWA tile. 

Polski Stół (Polish table) is a collaborative effort of three manufacturers in Lower Silesia. This innovative project gathers Walbrzych-based Porcelana Kristoff, Manufaktura Boleslawiec and Huta Julia Piechowice as three manufacturers are co-designing the Polish table. The idea behind the Polish table initiative is the revival of the traditional craft by combination of truly unique design with the the diversity and specificity of every material.

Each of the three Lower-Silesian factories has created their unique sets as an effort of their designer teams collaborating, studying production technologies and rediscovering traditional methods of hand-made ornaments.

Two breakfast sets and a collection for special occasions are another step towards bringing the Lower Silesian traditional craft back to the dinner table. For the inhabitants of historical Silesia, these products were real pride and joy, making the region recognizable and respected as the industrial area of crucial importance for the European economy. Porcelain from Walbrzych, crystal glass from Piechowice and stoneware from Boleslawiec once adorned Silesian tables for centuries. After the war, their products contributed jointly to restoring the cultural and social identity of the residents of western Poland. For more than 70 years, these products have defined the "Polish table", both literally and metaphorically.