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

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.