{"id":60118,"date":"2018-07-18T16:01:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T16:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/projects\/maria-jeglinska-designer-profile\/"},"modified":"2021-09-14T15:42:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T15:42:23","slug":"maria-jeglinska-designer-profile","status":"publish","type":"metro_profile","link":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/profiles\/maria-jeglinska-designer-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"New Talent 2018: Maria Jeglin\u0301ska Examines the Social and the Political Though Her Products and Installations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44397\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44397\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44397\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/MariaJeglinska_\u00a9Kasia-Bobula_HiRes.jpg\" alt=\"Maria Jeglinska designer profile\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Courtesy Kasia Bobula<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Are you tired of your present? If so, consult the rules of the game and proceed. Would you edit your past? Yes? Flip the card. Are you afraid of the cloud? Answer truthfully. Or not.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These piquant prompts were part of Warsaw-based designer Maria Jeglin\u0301ska\u2019s installation at the 2016 London Design Biennale, which asked participants to wrestle with the contemporary relevance of \u201cutopia\u201d as a concept. Jeglin\u0301ska (and her collaborator, the art historian Klara Czerniewska) responded with a cunning, if simple, game that compelled players to choose their own path and reveal a little bit about themselves in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The motivation was social, and it\u2019s an impulse you can find throughout Jeglin\u0301ska\u2019s body of work. \u201cI\u2019ve always liked to think about how people live, or have lived,\u201d she says. \u201cObjects, furniture, things\u2014their meaning can change, depending on the context.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her 2015 Little Black armchair, a doodle in three dimensions, and ironically painted azure blue, illustrates the point nicely. Its name refers to the Polish order for a basic coffee, recalling Warsaw amid the post-Stalin 1950s Thaw, when a cafe\u0301 culture was permitted to take root.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_44393\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44393\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44393 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Maria-Jeglinska_Villa-Noailles_\u00a9Lothaire-Hucki_03.jpg\" alt=\"Maria Jeglinska designer profile\" width=\"900\" height=\"601\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At center are Jeglin\u0301ska\u2019s Circles tables for Ligne Roset. <strong>Courtesy Lothaire Hucki<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Be they metonyms or aide-me\u0301moires, Jeglin\u0301ska\u2019s objects are never quite as naive as they seem. (Having worked for a time for Konstantin Grcic, Jeglin\u0301ska has a similar appreciation for laconic spareness.) Many, such as her ceramic vase prototypes for Vitra, collectively titled Portable Landscape, seem to have their own private lives or sets of relations\u2014huddled together in groups of threes and fours, they could almost be muttering to one another.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining her penchant for still lifes, she cites a passage from Samuel Beckett in which he imagines \u201clong afternoons together\u201d with a beloved stool and other \u201cfamiliar objects.\u201d Jeglin\u0301ska adds, as if to clarify the reference, \u201cIt is very hard for me when working on an object to start with a typology. I always start from a context, even if it is an imaginary one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You might also like, <a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/2558\">&#8220;For Furniture Design Company Kalon, Each Piece Starts in the Designers\u2019 Own Home.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Warsaw-based designer and Konstantin Grcic alum interweaves social narratives and familiar household objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2597,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_image_focal_point":[],"legacy_WP_ID":null},"tags":[1634],"metro_tax_domain":[],"metro_tax_topic":[],"metro_tax_program":[],"metro_issue":[],"metro_cat_profile":[],"internal_flag":[],"class_list":["post-60118","metro_profile","type-metro_profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-new-talent-2018"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ 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