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Kurier Warszawski published very precise reports on the progress made in the
construction and its completion. In the summer of 1847 it wrote an article on the
building as compared to other edifices designed by Lanci: As may be inferredfrom
the initial outline, in his new building he will be combining elegance with the simplicity
ofstyle the modelof which we have observedin Count Stanislaw Potocki’s edifice which
is now being finished on the Krakowskie Przedmiescie. . . . The exemplary care with
which they are being done deserves the attention ofthe experts. In October of the same
year the newspaper announced that the scajfolding had been taken down from Count
Stanislaw Potocki’s newly built house. The graceful and well-proportioned structure
hada gorgeous effect, embellishing one ofWarsaw’sfinest streets.
Stanislaw Gieysztor, whom we have already quoted, described Lanci’s building
after its reconstruction after the War, writing that the ground floor of the house
next door, another Potocki property, had accommodated Starkman’s, a tailor’s shop . .
while Gebethner’s piano warehouse had occupied an entire storey and had its sign,
a huge golden piano, mounted on the balcony, not doing much for the house’s aesthet-
ics. This building has now been reconstructedfor the Ministry of Culture and Art, with
a facade more in keeping with the Late Baroque style than the one designed by Lanci in
the first half of the I9tl> century (Gieysztor 2010, p. 664). However, we beg to differ
from Gieysztor regarding his opinion on the style of the house reconstructed by
a team led by Zdzislaw St^pinski, who in fact kept many of the original forms and
details of Lanci’s design, including the beautiful window frames with rosettes and
a meander motif, with the addition of a few details derived from Classicism, such
as a series of elegantly shaped palmettes.
Fig. 61. No. 17 on the Krakowskie Przedmiescie
in 2011
Land gripped by the yoke - choked under /
brute force and grievance, distrained like a
poor angel with wings sundered, like a wom-
an deprived of her shame, / and the people's
genius has gone silent, muted, / robbed of its
voice in the night of enslavement. / O War-
saw, so you. too, have been pressured, you
andyour proud Poiish scions, put to slumber
by a swarm sent from Russia / of army yokels,
oafs, and ruffians?
(Alexander Blok, Vozmezdie. III)
77
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construction and its completion. In the summer of 1847 it wrote an article on the
building as compared to other edifices designed by Lanci: As may be inferredfrom
the initial outline, in his new building he will be combining elegance with the simplicity
ofstyle the modelof which we have observedin Count Stanislaw Potocki’s edifice which
is now being finished on the Krakowskie Przedmiescie. . . . The exemplary care with
which they are being done deserves the attention ofthe experts. In October of the same
year the newspaper announced that the scajfolding had been taken down from Count
Stanislaw Potocki’s newly built house. The graceful and well-proportioned structure
hada gorgeous effect, embellishing one ofWarsaw’sfinest streets.
Stanislaw Gieysztor, whom we have already quoted, described Lanci’s building
after its reconstruction after the War, writing that the ground floor of the house
next door, another Potocki property, had accommodated Starkman’s, a tailor’s shop . .
while Gebethner’s piano warehouse had occupied an entire storey and had its sign,
a huge golden piano, mounted on the balcony, not doing much for the house’s aesthet-
ics. This building has now been reconstructedfor the Ministry of Culture and Art, with
a facade more in keeping with the Late Baroque style than the one designed by Lanci in
the first half of the I9tl> century (Gieysztor 2010, p. 664). However, we beg to differ
from Gieysztor regarding his opinion on the style of the house reconstructed by
a team led by Zdzislaw St^pinski, who in fact kept many of the original forms and
details of Lanci’s design, including the beautiful window frames with rosettes and
a meander motif, with the addition of a few details derived from Classicism, such
as a series of elegantly shaped palmettes.
Fig. 61. No. 17 on the Krakowskie Przedmiescie
in 2011
Land gripped by the yoke - choked under /
brute force and grievance, distrained like a
poor angel with wings sundered, like a wom-
an deprived of her shame, / and the people's
genius has gone silent, muted, / robbed of its
voice in the night of enslavement. / O War-
saw, so you. too, have been pressured, you
andyour proud Poiish scions, put to slumber
by a swarm sent from Russia / of army yokels,
oafs, and ruffians?
(Alexander Blok, Vozmezdie. III)
77
/r