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Café at Sezam Cooperative Department Store

Edward Hartwig

1970s

This view south from Świętokrzyska Street shows the north façade of the Sezam Cooperative Department Store. The entrance to the café on the first floor and the mosaic-embellished stairs leading up to the café terrace at the Sezam Cooperative Department Store. Above the stairs, part of the café terrace and an aluminum façade. 
Designed by Andrzej Sierakowski, Tadeusz Błażejewski, Jan Kopciowski, and Roman Widera, the Store at 126-134 Marszałkowska Street was part of the East Wall complex. It opened on October 11th, 1969 as the largest department store in Warsaw at the time. Between 2016 and 2018 it was replaced by the Centrum Marszałkowska office building. 
 

  • Title: Café at Sezam Cooperative Department Store
  • Artist: Edward Hartwig
  • Date: 1970s
  • Origin: Warsaw
  • Technique: gelatin silver print
  • Material: photographic paper
  • Dimensions: work: height 23,7 cm, width 25,5 cm
  • Object type: photograph
  • Inventory number: AN 4799/H

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Signatures, marking, inscriptions

  • Stamp signed on reverse: ALL RIGHTS | RESERVED BY| ZAIKS OR POLISH SOCIETY OF AUTHORS AND COMPOSERS | LES DROITS D’AUTEURS RESERVES | reproduction permitted under con- | dition: | 1) crediting the author | 2) paying remuneration in compliance | with contract, or when no contract in place | in compliance with ZAIKS’ rates | EDWARD HARTWIG | Artist Photographer Z.P.A.F. or Association of Polish Art Photographers | WARSAW [...]

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