PasParTou at the Dumbo Arts Festival 2014

Last weekend, PasParTou was invited to participate in the Little Poland Gallery at the Dumbo Arts Festival.  The gallery was run by the Polish Consulate in New York in order to showcase items either made in Poland or by Polish designers and artists.  We graciously accepted the consulate's invitation and set up a table for the two day show located at 160 Water Street in the heart of DUMBO.

Owner Gosia Rojek showing our collection of items to Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka, Polish Consul General

We decided to bring with us the works of many different Polish artists and designers.  We exhibited the beautiful jewelry of designers Marcin Zaremski and Marcin Gronkowski.  We also displayed a collection of Polish pottery otherwise known as Boleslawiec.  Visitors who came by our booth loved the small bowls and spoons as well as our collection of tea bag holders.

Exhibition of Polish Pottery

In our store, we feature a beautiful line of Polish whimsical kitchen textiles with various patterns on them.  We brought those down to DUMBO as well with us and they were a hit just as they are in our store in Cobble Hill.

Selection of whimsical kitchen linens

Finally we brought a beautiful collection of handmade and artist signed glass pieces from Velt Gallery.  These along with our personally designed Brooklyn t-shirts finished out our display nicely.

PasParTou designed Brooklyn t-shirts

Overall, we had a sucessful first experience at the Dumbo Arts Festival.  Not only did we get to exhibit and display our beautiful Polish made and inspired items, but we also got to catch up with a good friend of ours, the Polish Consul General.

Owner Gosia Rojek with Polish Consul General Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka

All participants of Little Poland Gallery with Polish Consul General Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka

Polish Jewelry Designer Marcin Zaremski

Collection of Marcin Zaremski Bracelets

Jewelry has been accompanying renowned Polish jewelry designer Marcin Zaremski for as long as he can remember.  While looking for his own independent way in life and art, he found .... silver.

Silver Bracelet

Marcin studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1969 to 1974 in the faculty of design. At the same time he was working at his parents art studio gaining valuable knowledge of skills needed to be a jeweler.  In 1974, after graduating from his studies he decided against becoming an interior designer and instead decided to become a jewelry designer, where his only obstacle was to cope with family tradition.  His parents, Jadwiga and Jerzy Zaremski, were the forerunners and the creators of Polish modern jewelry art.  Marcin wanted to create his own style and detach himself from his parents' successes and in turn created the Polish haute couture in the jewelry sector.

Gold Plated Silver Bracelet

Marcin Zaremski is genuinely interested in the wearers of contemporary jewelry, especially women. He strives to understand their willingness to be conspicuous, to manifest their personalities externally, to reveal their peculiar preferences and passions.  The role he has allotted his jewelry is quite clear: he wants his jewelry pieces to harmonize with, or stand in contrast to clothing; he wants them to transform in accordance with fashions and the current artistic research.  These two factors combined give his jewelry its voguish quality.  From the multitude of trends prevailing in art and fashion, Marcin chooses those that are the most in keeping with his personal predilections. 

  

  Gold Plated Silver and Silver Necklace

Gold Plated Silver Earrings

Marcin Zaremski has taken part in over 100 art exhibitions (collective and individual) in Poland and abroad.  From the beginning of the times of democracy (1989), he has been managing his workshop in which he creates his jewelry projects and designs.  Marcin has been running his author jewelry gallery-shop in Warsaw since 1992.

We've curated a great collection of Marcin Zaremski's work and will be getting more in time for the holidays, so come by our store on Court Street and let us tell you a little bit more about Marcin and show you his beautiful pieces.