authors of Bee Świeczki
Designer: Natasza Grześkiewicz
An ASP (Academy of Fine Arts) graduate. She has also studied at the ESAD Design School in Porto. Prior to graduation she had left for an internship at the Tjep design studio in Amsterdam, where she had first encountered the ceramic making techniques. It was there that she had come up with the idea for her master's thesis. Her diploma – a porcelain service was the culmination of the three month residency at the EKWC Ceramics Center in the Netherlands. The project won the Rosenthal Award “for creativity and innovation”, which resulted in exhibitions in Hong Kong, London, Berlin, France and Poland, during many design events.
Artisans: Jacek i Iwona Krysztof
They have a breeding apiary where they breed and inseminate bees. They have created a new bee subspecies called KASZUBKA. Bees are their passion. They conduct educational activities related to beekeeping and bee products (honey, wax, propolis, bee pollen, royal jelly). As breeders they have their own website and sell bee mothers.