AW: It’s a romantic story, as it all started when I met my boyfriend, Antoni Bielawski. Like me, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in the same field. We had more in common – like our birthdays and a love for antiques. When we started
dating, Antoni was working as a set designer and beginning a year-long jewelry course. I often came up with project ideas for his classes. At some point, we realized that our collaboration was going wonderfully and that it would be worth developing further. I then left my stable job and decided to go all in. In the middle of the pandemic, we launched Maar – a jewellery project, incorporating the letters of our names into a word associated with water, which has always been a recurring theme in our joint collections and travels.

AW: They’re definitely large, organic, eclectic. This reflects my style, which is fluid and changeable. I love juxtaposing different worlds and mixing trends. One day I feel more romantic, the next I’m a grunge girl. I go through phases. For a while, I compulsively bought and wore blue clothes with dolphin motifs, then I moved on to oversized quilted puffy jackets. Recently, I’ve developed a fondness for shades of flans, caramels and chocolate, paired with oversized blazers, jeans, and motorcycle boots. Whatever I’m wearing, our jewellery with large stones always fits in. As a brand, we’re known for those blues, and I boldly mix them with other shades. I’m not a fan of the capsule wardrobe concept, although I do have a few signature pieces that can count as one. For me, clothing is more of a platform for experiments and aesthetic pleasure. It allows me to play with textures and colours, bending conventions. I have a similar approach to cooking and serving food or arranging floral bouquets, which are important elements of my home interior design and daily life.

AW: I’m constantly seeking incentives. I love visiting art galleries, browsing nature and design albums, and travelling – often on short, spontaneous ‘city breaks’, where you can see a lot, quickly. I can fly to Copenhagen for 14 hours just to check out a boutique with lamps, see the design of a bar at a newly opened restaurant, an exhibition, or the interior of a boutique hotel. Every week, I visit flea markets in various places in Poland and abroad – they’re the first things I look for on the map when planning a trip. It’s not always about shopping. These trips result in extensive photographic documentation that sits within me, reminding me of how different forms and items can have. I tap into this awareness of potential, although never directly. I prefer to seek insight from it, rather than replicate – that’s where I find joy. Nature is another source of inspiration for me, even the mundane things, like the watercolour shades of the sky, the perfect blue of water, or the texture of an anthurium flower. Sometimes it’s what I see from my window in Warsaw, sometimes it’s Podlasie, and sometimes it’s exotic places, so different and far away from home.

AW: I’m always running somewhere. My work is very dynamic – I don’t just design; I also create content for social media, and build setups for fair stands, photoshoots and boutiques. I also edit short animations, send packages, and respond to customer messages. It’s a long list, interrupted by constant trips to the Assay Office. In this daily hustle, I value comfort and items that not only please the eye with colour and form but also adapt to my speed, both functionally and aesthetically.