Poland, Trzebiechów, 5-6.09.2013: Śladami Henry'ego van de Velde - turystyka transgraniczna. (Tracing Henry van de Velde’s works in Poland. Trans-border tourism).

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  • Agnieszka Szeląg

Author Biography

Agnieszka Szeląg

Agnieszka Szeląg has been the Director of the Nursing Home in the village of Trzebiechów, in western Poland, since 2004 (the 24-hour institution for the physically disabled). She is also the President of the Association for the renovation and restoration of the Henry van de Velde's works in Poland. She got a degree of Master of Science in Nursing at the Poznań University of Medical Sciences. She has also qualifications in organization and administration of care homes, gained at the postgraduate studies at the University of Zielona Góra. Since 2010, she has been a councillor in the town council of Sulechów. The best interest of the people she works for is the first imperative in her work. For this approach, complemented with the innovative solutions in social assistance, in 2013 she received the award from the Minister of Labour and Social Policy. Her life's passion is to care not only for the inmates of the Nursing Home in Trzebiechów but also for the sanatorium building, which is the seat of the Nursing Home and the interior décor and furnishings of which were designed by famous van de Velde. As she states, from the beginning of her work in the institution, i.e. from 2004, she discovers its premises anew each day, and ever since she has been trying not only for their conservation but also for extending the collection of Art Nouveau furniture and for the wide-ranging promotion of the object. For these efforts, in 2010 she was awarded by the Minister of Culture a silver badge For the care of monuments.

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29.04.2014

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Szeląg, A. (2014). Poland, Trzebiechów, 5-6.09.2013: Śladami Henry’ego van de Velde - turystyka transgraniczna. (Tracing Henry van de Velde’s works in Poland. Trans-border tourism). Uncommon Culture, 4(7/8), 225–226. Retrieved from https://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/UC/article/view/5362

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