Jeglinska, Maria (1983 - )

Maria Jeglińska was born in Fontainebleau in 1983. In 2010 she established her Office for Design & Research in London. She graduated from ECAL’s industrial design course in 2007 and was awarded a scholarship from the IKEA foundation that led her to work for Galerie kreo in Paris, Konstantin Grcic in Munich and Alexander Taylor in London. She works on a wide range of commissions: industrial design projects, exhibition design, as well as research-based projects. She is convinced that in today’s world, research can trigger and generate new forms of answers and offers. Her clients include: Ligne Roset, Kvadrat, Actus, Vitra, 1882ltd, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, St Etienne Design Biennale. Her work is regularly exhibited internationally and was shown at: the Villa Noailles, the Aram gallery, Barbican Art Gallery, Centre Pompidou Metz and the Triennale di Milano. In 2012 she curated and designed: Ways Of Seeing/Sitting at the Łódź Design Festival in Poland. She was also the co-curator and designer of the Polish Pavilion at the London Design Biennale in 2016. In 2018 she was appointed creative director of the Arena Design Fair in Poland.