Velt Gallery

Orchids in Wide Glass Vase

At our stores, both in Brooklyn and Shelter Island, we pride ourselves in carrying many beautiful items that are made in Europe.  In this blog post, we are featuring a beautiful gallery named Velt located in Warsaw, Poland.  Velt Gallery is the brain child of Maria Veltuzen-Nagrabecka and her husband Leszek Nagrabecki.  

Maria Veltuzen-Nagrabecka received her masters in interior design from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland.  She also studied sculpture.  In 1975, along with her husband Leszek, Maria started collaborating with glass makers from numerous glass factories from all over Poland.  Each of Maria and Leszek's pieces is hand formed and mouth blown, therefore one-of-a-kind.  

Mouth Blown One-of-a-kind Candlesticks

Maria and Leszek's work, consisting of many unique pieces, has been exhibited at individual and group exhibits in many European cities;

• in Warsaw, Gdansk, and frequently in Bydgoszcz, Poland
• in Berlin and Munich, Germany
• in Vicenza and Rome, Italy

Their work is also a part of numerous private collections all over the world.

Beautiful flower arrangement in Green Glass Vase

Between 1994 and 2006, Maria and Leszek exhibited their work in the Art Gallery in Zakopane.  Since 2007, their work has been presented in and sold through Velt Gallery located on at 12 Prozna Street in Warsaw.  Velt Gallery specializes in mouth blown glass as well as glass lighting designed by their son Jeremy Nagrabecki.