Villa Koliba designed by Stanislaw Witkiewicz in Zakpane, Poland
The first building ever erected in the Zakopane style was the Villa Koliba Designed by Stanislaw Witkiewicz and built between 1892 and 1894 it stands to this day on Koscieliska Street in Zakopane Witkiewicz once wrote on the idea of the Zakopane style The idea was not to build yet one more beautiful typical house The focus was something else entirely to build a home which would settle all existing doubts about the possibility of adapting folk architecture to the requirements deriving from the more complex and sophisticated needs of comfort and beauty To design a home that would inherently withstand all common grievances and undermine all customary prejudices To erect a house that would prove that one can have a home a dwelling in the dominant style of Zakopane and yet be confident that this home will not disintegrate that it will effectively protect one from storms gales and the cold that it will possess the full range of comforts yet simultaneously be beautiful in a fundamentally Polish way
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