FrezoDecoration

The unique FREZO design, in addition to wallpapers and wall graphics, is also available in smaller forms in the form of interior accessories. You will find among them original posters signed with a dry seal, decorative pillows made of cotton or velor, original, handmade ceramics and large-format graphics made on dibond.

FREZO Decoration is an original decorative brand inspired by Polish art and design of the second half of the 20th century. Our offer includes a range of wallpapers adapted from original wall painting designs and contemporary designs of posters, cushions, ceramics and other interior design elements stylistically referring to abstraction and surrealism from the 1950s and 1960s. Based on preserved sketches, we revive forgotten, non-existent decorations of high artistic value. Thanks to this, historical designs can re-decorate modern interiors of connoisseurs and lovers of unique design.

FREZO wallpapers have been repeatedly appreciated and awarded, both for design and quality. Our designs received the Must Have 2017 quality mark awarded by the Lodz Design Festival jury, got to the finals of Good Design competition organized by the Institute of Internal Design in Warsaw, they were also awarded by Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

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HISTORY OF FREZO

The history of our projects dates back to the 1950s. At that time, the artist from Toruń Franciszek Michałek (1923-2006) graduates from the Faculty of Fine Arts under the direction of the famous Tymon Niesiołowski, one of the greatest Polish painters of the 20th century. He rejects the offer of his master to stay at the university and moves to Bydgoszcz, where he creates his first monumental wall compositions. He designs paintings in sanatoriums, cafes, office buildings, hotels and cinemas. This kind of art becomes his specialty and way of earning a living. By the end of the 70s, he creates several dozen monumental wall paintings in many cities.

At the beginning of the 1980s, Franciszek stops creating and goes into oblivion. His works disappear, covered with shoddy decorations from the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. This story could have ended, but after his death, several hundred designs and sketches of paintings and decorative elements are discovered. These, mostly never presented, works make up a large posthumous exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Art in Toruń.

Two years later, the original wall decorations created by Franciszek are digitally reconstructed and transferred to wallpapers and wall graphics. Designs from several decades ago come to life on the walls of modern interiors. This is how FREZO is created (a combination of the words: Franciszek and Fresco), and the brand logo is stylized as the letter "F", which Franciszek used to mark his own candlesticks.

In the following years, the FREZO offer was expanded to include cushions, posters and artistic ceramics. Despite great diversity, the common denominator that connects FREZO products is creativity and the unique atmosphere created by Franciszek. Sketches and works from over half a century ago, arranged and reinterpreted by his descendants, fit perfectly into contemporary interiors.

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AWARDS

Must Have by Lodz Design Festival (2017)
Honorable Mention of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2017)
Good Design by Institute of Industrial Design - competition finalist (2017)
Good Design by Institute of Industrial Design- competition finalist (2018)
Best in Show - Abimad fair, Sao Paulo (2019)